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STOCKS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stocks" is a kind of...):
instrument of punishment (an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stocks" is a kind of...):
frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A frame that supports a boat while it is under construction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stocks" is a kind of...):
frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb stock
Context examples:
The Fly Facility Shared Resource provides housing for collection of the standard wild type and mutant strains of Drosophila melanogaster and all services related to maintenance of fly stocks.
(Fly Facility Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
And when he read his paper of an evening, Demi's colic got into the shipping list and Daisy's fall affected the price of stocks, for Mrs. Brooke was only interested in domestic news.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Climate change affects the hydrological regime in the Amazon, which affects fish reproduction and production of stocks in the floodplains.
(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)
Derived from inbred Hartley stocks at the Eastman Kodak Company and Montreal's Institute Armand Frappier, having undergone spontaneous mutation that led to hairlessness and athymicity.
(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
I might have sold it again, the next day, for more than I gave: but, with regard to the purchase-money, I might have been very unfortunate indeed; for the stocks were at that time so low, that if I had not happened to have the necessary sum in my banker's hands, I must have sold out to very great loss.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
From what I have heard from him this morning, I gather that he has lost heavily in dabbling with stocks, and that he is ready to do anything on earth to better his fortunes.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Once fairly in the dockyard, he began to reckon upon some happy intercourse with Fanny, as they were very soon joined by a brother lounger of Mr. Price's, who was come to take his daily survey of how things went on, and who must prove a far more worthy companion than himself; and after a time the two officers seemed very well satisfied going about together, and discussing matters of equal and never-failing interest, while the young people sat down upon some timbers in the yard, or found a seat on board a vessel in the stocks which they all went to look at.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Derived by Little (1921) from A Lathrop stocks and separated out before 1937, the C57BL/10 mouse has a black coat and carries a Y chromosome of Asian Mus musculus origin and a LINE-1 element from Mus spretus.
(C57BL/10 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Derived by Little (1921) from A Lathrop stocks and separated out before 1937, the C57BL/6 mouse has a black coat and carries a Y chromosome of Asian Mus musculus origin and a LINE-1 element from Mus spretus.
(C57BL/6 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
That places Brazil among the three countries with the world's largest gene stocks in the world, behind only the United States and China.
(LatAm's largest gene bank unveiled in Brasília, Agência BRASIL)
