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Stock can refer to:
Supply and inventory - the equipment, materials, or supplies of an establishment or a store or supply accumulated or available, as in:
- Livestock kept on a farm, also
- Foundation bloodstock, the animals used as a genetic base for a breed.
- Stock (food), a soup and flavoring base
- Stock cube, a dehydrated form of the above, known as bouillon cubes in the U.S.
- Inventory, a term for "finished goods", or sometimes raw material kept in storage.
- Stock (cards), the common pile of undealt playing cards from which players draw in a number of card games.
- Stock media, set material which can be used by other people (and is sometimes created for the purpose), either for free or for a set fee. Examples include:
- Stock footage
- Stock photography
- Stock sound effects
- Clipart
- Packs/downloads for 3D design programs such as Poser or 3D Studio Max.
- Raw stock, unexposed cinema film
- Rolling stock as used in railway operation
- Stock, the base material used in some fabrication work, such as wood for woodworking, a mix of fibres, chemicals and water used for papermaking or the metal used in a welding application.
- Correspondence stock used for letter writing.
- Fish stocks refers to a fish population in a defined area which is of interest to fishery managers.
Abstract supply and inventory -- economics, finance, accounting, and systems dynamics use the term stock to refer to a quantity that has been accumulated from a flow of some other quantity. Examples include:
- a share of ownership in a company. See stock.
- the capital stock
Persons
- Albert Stock, Wales international rugby player
- Alec Stock, English football manager
- Alfred Stock, German inorganic chemist
- Brian Stock, footballer
- Franz Stock, German priest in Paris during World War II
- P. J. Stock, American hockey player
- Robert Stock, German entrepreneur
- Julie Stock, Artist
Places
- Stock, Essex is a village in the county of Essex, England.
- Stock Township is the name of townships in the U.S. state of Ohio's Harrison and Noble counties.
- Stock (Middle-earth), a village in the Shire of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
- Stocks House is a country house in Aldbury, Hertfordshire which was the setting for the album cover of Oasis' Be Here Now
- Stock, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
Plants
- Stocks (plants) Matthiola - a genus of flowering plants
- Garden stock, Matthiola incana - a common garden plant
- Night-scented stock Matthiola bicornis - a common garden plant
- Virginia stock - a garden plant, Malcolmia maritima
Other names
- An album by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori - see STOCK (music)
- Stock (publishing house)
Original Stock may also mean the original (as a person, race, or language) from which others derive, as in:
- Rootstock, a stump used for grafting
- (Linguistic) stock, a group of related languages or language families
- Stock, automotive parts as provided by OEMs.
- Stock car, a racing car that has not been modified from its original factory configuration.
Other
- The wooden arms that the sails of a Windmill are fitted to.
- The American form of repertory theatre as practiced in England.
- A wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- Stock (cage), a device used to restrain livestock while receiving medical treatment/
- Stocks, a device used for public humiliation, punishment, and torture.
- A grappling term for a type of spinal lock.
- Stock (firearm)
- Stock in geology refers to a medium sized igneous intrusion with outcrop area less than about 100 km².
- Another term for ski poles.
- An infant bed.
- Fernet Stock is a herbal bitters made in Plzeň-Božkov, Czech Republic and in Triest, Italy.
- STOCK - software for fixed assets management and stock control.
- In Western European folklore, a changeling made from glamorized wood, leaves or earth by the fairies which would soon appear to grow sick and die.
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