Word Type
Stock can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
stock used as a verb:
- To have on hand for sale.
"The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
stock used as an adjective:
- Normally available for purchase.
"stock items" - Straightforward, plain, very basic
"That band is quite stock"
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
stock used as a noun:
- 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." - Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Farm or ranch animals.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- Broth made from meat or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- The type of paper used in printing.
"The books were printed on a heavier stock this year." - A wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- In a card game, a stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is stock?
- Verb usage: The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
- Adjective usage: stock items
- Adjective usage: stock sizes
- Adjective usage: That band is quite stock
- Adjective usage: He gave me a stock answer
- Noun usage: We have a stock of televisions on hand.
- Noun usage: Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- Noun usage: The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of stock are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of stock, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
