Stock vs Kind - What's the difference?
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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.
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shows his power in variable kinds !
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
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*1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
*:I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.
(label) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
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*:And whan he cam ageyne he sayd / O my whyte herte / me repenteth that thow art dede // and thy deth shalle be dere bought and I lyue / and anone he wente in to his chamber and armed hym / and came oute fyersly / & there mette he with syr gauayne / why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayn / for they dyd but their kynde
(senseid)Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
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Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, or disposition, marked by consideration for - and service to - others.
Affectionate.
* Goldsmith
* Waller
Favorable.
mild, gentle, forgiving
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
* Holland
Stock is a related term of kind.
As nouns the difference between stock and kind
is that stock is stick, staff while kind is child (young person).As a prefix stock
is used to emphasize.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
See also
* DJIA * foodstockAnagrams
* ----kind
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also kin.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
Usage notes
In sense “goods or services” or “equivalent means”, used almost exclusively with “in” in expression in kind.Synonyms
* genre * sort * type * derivative (1) and/or (2) * generation * offspring * child * See alsoDerived terms
* in kind * kind of * kindaEtymology 2
From (etyl) , from cynd.Adjective
(er)- a kind''' man; a '''kind heart
- Yet was he kind , or if severe in aught, / The love he bore to learning was his fault.
- O cruel Death, to those you take more kind / Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
- The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
- a horse kind in harness
- It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.
- (Chaucer)