Stock vs Root - What's the difference?

stock | root |

As a noun stock

is stick, staff.

As a prefix stock

is used to emphasize.

As a proper noun root is

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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root

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; cognate with wort and radix.

Noun

(en noun)

The part of a plant, generally underground, that absorbs water and nutrients.

This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.

A root vegetable.

two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough.

The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.

Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.

The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.

The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.

The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.

He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.

The primary source; origin.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

* John Locke

They were the roots out of which sprang two distinct people.

(arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.

The cube root of 27 is 3.

(arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).

Multiply by root 2.

(analysis) A zero (of a function).

(graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.

(linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.

(philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.

(music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.

(Busby)

The lowest place, position, or part.

* Milton

deep to the roots of hell

* Southey

the roots of the mountains

(computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure.

(computing) The person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories. (rfex)

Synonyms

* (source) basis, origin, source * (zero of a function) zero * (word from which another is derived) etymon * superuser (), root account, root user

Antonyms

* (zero of a function) pole

Holonyms

* (zero of a function) kernel

Derived terms

* cube root * functional root * put down roots * root canal * root cause * rootkit * roots * roots music * rootsy * square root * strictly roots * take root * taproot * root gap

Verb

(en verb)

(computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.

We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.

To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

* Mortimer

In deep grounds the weeds root deeper.

* '>citation

To be firmly fixed; to be established.

* Bishop Fell

If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . Cognate with rodent. Cognate with Dutch wroeten.

Verb

(en verb)

To turn up or dig with the snout.

A pig roots the earth for truffles.

(by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.

To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.

rooting about in a junk-filled drawer

To root out; to abolish.

* Shakespeare

I will go root away the noisome weeds.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 28

The Lord rooted them out of their land and cast them into another land.

(Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.

Usage notes

* The Australian/New Zealand sexual sense is somewhat milder than fuck but still quite coarse, certainly not for polite conversation. The sexual sense will often be understood, unless care is taken with the context to make the rummage sense clear, or 'root through' or 'root around' is used. The past participle rooted'' is equivalent to ''fucked'' in the figurative sense of broken or tired, but ''rooting'' is only the direct verbal sense, not an all-purpose intensive like ''fucking .

Synonyms

* (rummage) dig out, root out, rummage * (have sexual intercourse) screw, bang, drill (US), shag (British) - See also

Derived terms

* root about * rooted * root out * root up

Noun

(en noun)

(Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.

Fancy a root ?

(Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.

Usage notes

* The Australian/New Zealand sexual sense of root'' is somewhat milder than ''fuck'' but still quite coarse, certainly not for polite conversation. The normal usage is ''to have a root or similar.

Synonyms

* (act of sexual intercourse) screw (qualifier), shag (UK); see also * (sexual partner) screw (US)

Etymology 3

Possibly an alteration of , influenced by hoot

Verb

(en verb)

(intransitive, with for, US) To cheer to show support for.

* 1908 ,

Let me root', '''root''', ' root for the home team,

(US) To hope for the success of. Rendered as 'root for'.

I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!

Synonyms

* (cheer) barrack (qualifier), cheer on

Anagrams

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