Tree vs Stock - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tree and stock

is that tree is a large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age) while stock is stick, staff.

As a verb tree

is to chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

As a prefix stock is

used to emphasize.

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Noun

(en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)

A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).

is the tallest living tree in the world.

Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.

Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree".

An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks]] or storage [[platform, platforms.

He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree .

A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.

The structural frame of a saddle.

(graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n'' vertices and ''n -1 edges.

(computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.

(graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.

We’ll show it as a tree list.

Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).

The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.

(informal) Marijuana.

(obsolete) A cross or gallows.

Tyburn tree

* Bible, Acts x. 39

[Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree .

(obsolete) wood; timber

* Wyclif Bible (2 Tim. ii. 20)

In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.

(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

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Hypernyms

* plant * (in graph theory) graph

Hyponyms

* oak, fir, pine * see also:

Synonyms

* sapling, seedling

Verb

(d)

To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

The dog treed the cat.

To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

to tree a boot

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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

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Tree vs Stock - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tree and stock

As a verb tree

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