Stocker vs Stocked - What's the difference?
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(agriculture) livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring
* 1914 , Thomas Shaw,
* 1918 , Frank Duane Gardner,
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(automotive) stock car; a car used for racing but without significant alteration since its production by the manufacturer
* 1968 ,
* 1993 , Mike Mueller, Chrysler Muscle Cars (ISBN 087938817X), MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, page 86:
* 2002 , Jim Richardson, How to Build a Small-Block Chevy for the Street (ISBN 0760310963), page 58:
One who crafts gun stocks
* 1900 , George Teasdale,
One who stocks shelves with inventory
* 2003 , Dominick Budnick, My Life as a Miracle: A Life of Fighting Cancer (ISBN 1553954122), Trafford Publishing:
* 2003 , Donna Goodenough, Deadly Thirst (ISBN 1412005523), page 80:
one who supplies raw material to a machine
* 1930 , Charles Spurgeon Johnson,
(stock)
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.
As a noun stocker
is (agriculture) livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring.As a verb stocked is
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Noun
(en noun)Management and Feeding of Sheep, Orange Judd Co., page 361:
- When sheep are shipped as stockers from the ranges, the numbers are such usually as to admit of grading the animals before they are shipped.
Live Stock and Dairy Farming, The John C. Winston Company, page 53:
- The production of stockers and feeders should be confined to those parts of the country where the larger part of the land cannot be plowed profitably, and grass is the principal crop.
Beef: '''StockerCattle , Clemson University, page 1:
- All feeder calves wintered and sold in the spring are stockers , whether they go to grass or to the feedlot.
Car Life, page 75:
- For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere.
- Ford Motor Company’s response to the Charger 500 was the 1969 Talladega and Cyclone Spoiler II, sleek, slippery stockers that forced Dodge designers back to the drawing board.
- Any small-block Chevy engine, whether it be a stocker , street rod, or racer, will benefit from proper balancing.
Experts on Guns and Shooting, Sampson Low, Marston & co., page 307:
- We mean by this that a man who has become great as a stocker would not necessarily know anything about barrel-boring, anything about actioning, anything about lock-making, nor anything about shooting.
- I worked for two winters at Kmart in Arizona as a stocker' and security guard. I was a ' stocker for Payless Drugs for two winters in West Seattle.
- There were plenty of jobs at Star Crest that someone with a mental deficiency could handle and Davenport sought to get Alvin employed as a stocker .
The Negro in American Civilization, H. Holt and Company, page 87:
- _ has been working as a stocker' at a rolling mill (a ' stocker keeps material on hand for the heaters).
Anagrams
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
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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
