Stock vs Boss - What's the difference?

In geology terms the difference between stock and boss

is that stock is a pipe (vertical cylinder of ore while boss is a lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.

In obsolete terms the difference between stock and boss

is that stock is a cover for the legs; a stocking while boss is a hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.

As nouns the difference between stock and boss

is that stock is a store or supply while boss is a swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.

As verbs the difference between stock and boss

is that stock is to have on hand for sale while boss is to decorate with bosses; to emboss.

As adjectives the difference between stock and boss

is that stock is of a type normally available for purchase/in stock while boss is of excellent quality, first-rate.

stock

English

Noun

A store or supply

# (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

We have a stock of televisions on hand.

# A supply of anything ready for use.

Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.

# 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

When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.

# (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.

After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.

# 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.

The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.

# 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

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.

# (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is .

#* Francis Bacon

The scion overruleth the stock quite.

# 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.

# 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.

* 1915 , :

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.

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 417:

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.

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

All our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.

* Fuller

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.

(by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

* Shakespeare

Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks .

(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.

(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-tie

Derived 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 stock

Verb

(en verb)

To have on hand for sale.

The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

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

To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.

To put in the stocks as punishment.

(Shakespeare)

(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.

Adjective

(-)

Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

stock items

stock sizes

(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.

That band is quite stock

He gave me a stock answer

Anagrams

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boss

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bos, bose, boce, from (etyl) .

Noun

(es)

A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.

(geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.

A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.

(mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.

(architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.

(archery) the target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

(Gwilt)

A head or reservoir of water.

Derived terms

* bossless * bosslike * emboss

Verb

(es)

To decorate with bosses; to emboss.

Etymology 2

Apparently a corruption of (bass).

Noun

(es)

(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.

* 1916 , , Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 36:

All were waiting : uncle Charles, who sat far away in the shadow of the window, Dante and Mr Casey, who sat in the easy chairs at either side of the hearth, Stephen, seated on a chair between them, his feet resting on a toasting boss .

Synonyms

* (hassock or footrest): footrest, hassock

Etymology 3

From (etyl) baas, from (etyl) . Originally a term of respect used to address an older relative, later, in , it began to mean a person in charge who is not a master.

Noun

(es)

A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

A person in charge of a business or company.

Chat turned to whisper when the boss entered the conference room.

My boss complains that I'm always late to work.

A leader, the head of an organized group or team.

They named him boss because he had good leadership skills.

The head of a political party in a given region or district.

He is the Republican boss in Kentucky.

(informal) A term of address to a man.

Yes, boss .

(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

(humorous) Wife.

There's no olive oil, will sunflower oil do? — I'll have to run that by the boss .

Synonyms

* (person in charge of a business or company): employer * (person who oversees and directs the work of others): line manager, manager, supervisor * (leader of an organized group or team): head, leader * (head of a political party in a given region or district): leader * : gov/guv (UK), guvnor (UK), mate (UK) * See also

Derived terms

* boss battle * boss fight * miniboss * final boss * show someone who's boss * you're the boss

Verb

(es)

To exercise authoritative control over; to lord over; to boss around; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.

* 1931 , Robert L. May, Rudolph'', ''The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher):

By YOU last night’s journey was actually bossed / Without you, I’m certain, we’d all have been lost.

* 1932 , Lorine Pruette, The Parent and the Happy Child , page 76

His sisters bossed him and spoiled him. All their lives he was to go on being their little brother, who could do no wrong, because he was the baby; [...]

* 1967 , Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The purloined paperweight , page 90

She bossed him, and he's never gotten over it. She still orders him around, and instead of telling her to go soak her head, he just says 'Yes, ma'am' as weak as a newborn jellyfish [...]

* 1980 , Jean Toomer The wayward and the seeking: a collection of writings by Jean Toomer , page 40

For if, on the one hand, I bossed him and showed him what to do and how to do it, [...]

Derived terms

* boss about, boss around

Adjective

(-)

(slang, American, Liverpool) Of excellent quality, first-rate.

''Don't you think surfing's boss ?

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