Strain vs Stock - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Treasure.
(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
* Shakespeare
* Darwin
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
* Tillotson
A tendency or disposition.
(literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
(biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
(music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
(rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
* Dryden
(obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
* Dryden
To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
* Jonathan Swift
To tighten (the strings of a musical instrument); to uplift (one’s voice).
To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
To percolate; to be filtered.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
* Denham
* Shakespeare
To urge with importunity; to press.
* Shakespeare
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 11, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
(label) The track of a deer.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
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.
#*
# 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 , :
* 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.
Strain is a related term of stock.
As nouns the difference between strain and stock
is that strain is (obsolete) treasure or strain can be the act of straining, or the state of being strained while stock is stick, staff.As a verb strain
is (obsolete) to hold tightly, to clasp.As a prefix stock is
used to emphasize.strain
English
(wikipedia strain)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- He is of a noble strain .
- With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain , gives vigour and fertility to the offspring.
- There is a strain of madness in her family.
- Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
- They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain .
- the common strain
Quotations
* (English Citations of "strain")Etymology 2
From (etyl) estreindre (whence French .Verb
(en verb)- So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd , and colled tenderly [...].
- Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
- to strain''' a rope; to '''strain the shrouds of a ship
- Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
- The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
- Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
- To build his fortune I will strain a little.
- He sweats, / Strains his young nerves.
- They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
- Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
- to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
- There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
- water straining through a sandy soil
- He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forced and strained .
- The quality of mercy is not strained .
- to strain a petition or invitation
- Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
Noun
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- When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine , and oftentimes so take them.
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