Body vs Stock - What's the difference?
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Physical frame.
# The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
# The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
# A corpse.
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#* 1876 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) , Chapter 28:
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Main section.
# The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
# The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
# (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
# The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
# A bodysuit.
# (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
Coherent group.
# A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
# An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
# A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
Material entity.
# Any physical object or material thing.
# (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
#* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
# (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
# An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
#* 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine , page 179:
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(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
To give body or shape to something.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
To embody.
* 1955 , Philip Larkin, Toads
A store or supply
# (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
# A supply of anything ready for use.
# Railroad rolling stock.
# In a card game, a stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
# Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
# The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
(finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
# The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market
# (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
# Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
The raw material from which things are made; feedstock
# The type of paper used in printing.
# Undeveloped film; film stock
Stock theater, summer stock theater
The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
* Bible, Job xiv. 8,9
# (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is .
#* Francis Bacon
# lineage, family, ancestry
## (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola .
A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached
# The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
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# The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
# The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
# The tailstock of a lathe
A bar, stick or rod
# A ski pole
# (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
# (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
# (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
(folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
(uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
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* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 417:
A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
(obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking
A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
* Milton
* Fuller
(by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
* Shakespeare
(UK, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
(shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
(UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
(biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
The beater of a fulling mill.
To have on hand for sale.
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
To put in the stocks as punishment.
(nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
(card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
(racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
Straightforward, ordinary, very basic.
Body is a related term of stock.
As nouns the difference between body and stock
is that body is a bodysuit , chiefly worn by women and children while stock is stick, staff.As a prefix stock is
used to emphasize.body
English
(wikipedia body)Noun
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- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body , it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [...]
- Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body
's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
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- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- The boxer took a blow to the body .
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
- In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body , pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
- We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
- The red wine, sadly, lacked body .
- In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour [...]
World's largest extrusive '''bodyof sand?", ''Geology , volume 40, issue 5
- Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
- The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* acetone body * administrative body * after body * amygaloid body * anococcygeal body * asteroid body * astral body * Barr body * black body * bodice * bodily * body armour * body bag * body blow * body-build * bodybuilder * bodybuilding * body cavity * body-centered * body check * body clock * body coat * body conscious * body contact * body count * body-hugging * body image * body louse * body mass index * body odour * body politic * bodyshell * body shop * body snatcher * body-surf * bodysuit * bodywork * car body * dead body * foreign body * heavenly body * mind-body * out-of-body * over my dead body * real body * subtle body * student body * zebra body (body)See also
* corporal * corporealVerb
- I don't say, one bodies the other / One's spiritual truth; / But I do say it's hard to lose either, / When you have both.
References
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* 1000 English basic words ----stock
English
Noun
- We have a stock of televisions on hand.
- Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
- After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
- The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
- Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
- The scion overruleth the stock quite.
- He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock . His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.
- His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.
- All our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.
- Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.
- Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks .
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (farm or ranch animals) livestock * (railroad equipment) rolling stock * (raw material) feedstock * (paper for printing) card stock * (plant used in grafting) rootstock, understock * (axle attached to rudder) rudder stock * (wide necktie) stock-tieDerived terms
* buffer stock * capital stock * certificated stock * common stock * corporate stock * deferred stock * growth stock * gunstock * laughingstock, laughing stock * livestock * penny stock * preferred stock * private stock * rolling stock * stand stock still * standing stock * stock answer * stock certificate * stock company * stock cube * stock exchange * stocfish * stockholder * stockish * stockist * stockless * stockman * stock market * stock option * stock performance * stock phrase * stockpicker * stockpile * stock split * stock-still * stock-take * stock-taking * stock up * stock vehicle, as opposed to custom vehicle * stocks * stocky * stockyard * take stock * tracking stock * treasury stock * unissued stockVerb
(en verb)- The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
- to stock a warehouse with goods
- to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
- to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
- (Shakespeare)
Adjective
(-)- stock items
- stock sizes
- That band is quite stock
- He gave me a stock answer