Stock vs. Flow: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Published on January 25, 2024
Stock refers to a quantity measured at one point in time, while Flow measures the rate of change over a period.
Key Differences
Stock represents a static quantity at a specific moment, like the amount of water in a tank, while Flow denotes the dynamic rate at which the stock changes, such as water flowing into or out of the tank.
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In economics, Stock can be wealth or capital at a certain date, whereas Flow is the income or expenditure happening over time, reflecting the movement or change in Stock.
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Stock is a snapshot, a fixed resource amount, like inventory in a store. In contrast, Flow is the process or rate of movement, like the rate of inventory turnover.
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In environmental science, Stock might refer to the amount of carbon stored in a forest, while Flow describes the absorption or emission rate of carbon by the forest.
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In information systems, Stock could be the data stored in a database at a given time, whereas Flow signifies the rate of data input or output.
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Measured at a specific point in time
Measured over a period of time
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Amount of carbon in a forest
Rate of carbon absorption/emission
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Stock and Flow Definitions
Stock
A supply or accumulation of items.
The store has a large stock of canned goods.
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Flow
The rise and movement of the tide.
The coastal waters are affected by the flow of the tide.
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Stock
The capital raised by a corporation through shares.
She invested heavily in the stock market.
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Flow
To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid.
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Stock
The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.
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Flow
To move with a continual shifting of component particles
Wheat flowing into the bin.
Traffic flowing through the tunnel.
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Stock
A population of wild animals, especially of a species that is also farmed
Interactions between hatchery fish and wild stocks.
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Flow
To exhibit a smooth or graceful continuity
The poem's cadence flowed gracefully.
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Stock
A kind of financial security granting rights of ownership in a corporation, such as a claim to a portion of the assets and earnings of the corporation and the right to vote for the board of directors. Stock is issued and traded in units called shares.
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Stock
The stock issued by a particular company
A mutual fund that invests in technology stocks.
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Stock
Chiefly British The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.
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Flow
To be abundant; teem
Coffers flowing with treasure.
Wine flowing at the celebration.
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Flow
To move from one place to another in large numbers
Contributions flowed in from all parts of the country.
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Flow
To undergo plastic deformation without cracking or breaking. Used of rocks, metals, or minerals.
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Stock
The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character
Comes from farming stock.
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Flow
To cause to flow
"One of the real keys to success is developing a system where you can flow traffic to yourselves" (Marc Klee).
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Flow
A continuous output or outpouring
A flow of ideas.
Produced a steady flow of stories.
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Flow
A continuous movement or circulation
The flow of traffic.
A flow of paperwork across his desk.
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Stock
The broth in which meat, fish, bones, or vegetables are simmered for a relatively long period, used as a base in preparing soup, gravy, or sauces.
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Stocks(Nautical) The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.
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Flow
A general movement or tendency
A dissenter who went against the flow of opinion.
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Stock
Often stocks A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment.
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Stocks A device consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes for confining the ankles and sometimes the wrists, formerly used for punishment.
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Flow
An apparent ease or effortlessness of performance
"An athlete must learn to forget the details of his or her training to achieve the instinctive sense of flow that characterizes a champion" (Frederick Turner).
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Flow
Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
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Stock
The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.
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The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.
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Flow
(math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
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Stock
A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools.
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The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened.
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Flow
Smoothness or continuity.
The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.
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Flow
The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.
Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.
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Flow
A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
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Stock
A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center
A small role in summer stock.
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Flow
(psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
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(Botany) Any of several Eurasian and Mediterranean plants of the genus Matthiola in the mustard family, especially M. incana, widely cultivated for its clusters of showy, fragrant, variously colored flowers.
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Flow
The emission of blood during menstruation.
Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.
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Stock
(Games) The portion of a pack of cards or of a group of dominoes that is not dealt out but is drawn from during a game.
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Flow
The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.
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Stock
(Geology) A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.
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Flow
(software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
Login flow
Search flow
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Stock
Personal reputation or status
A teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
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Flow
(intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
Tears flow from the eyes.
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Flow
(intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
Wealth flows from industry and economy.
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Flow
(intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
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Flow
(intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
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Flow
(intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
A flowing mantle; flowing locks
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Flow
(intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
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Flow
To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
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Flow
(transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
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Flow
To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
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Flow
To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
Those thousand decencies that daily flowFrom all her words and actions.
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Flow
To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.
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Stock
Repeated regularly without any thought or originality; routine
A stock answer.
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Flow
To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.
The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl.
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Stock
Employed in dealing with or caring for stock or merchandise
A stock clerk.
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Flow
To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
The imperial purple flowing in his train.
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Flow
To rise, as the tide; - opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.
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Flow
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
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Stock
Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.
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Flow
A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
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Stock
(operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
We have a stock of televisions on hand.
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Stock
A supply of anything ready for use.
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
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Flow
Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Flow
The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
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Flow
A low-lying piece of watery land; - called also flow moss and flow bog.
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Stock
The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
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Stock
(finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
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Stock
The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
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Flow
Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously;
A stream of people emptied from the terminal
The museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
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(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.
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Flow
Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;
Two streams of development run through American history
Stream of consciousness
The flow of thought
The current of history
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Stock
Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
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Flow
The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause;
The women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
A woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped
The semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females
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Flow
Move or progress freely as if in a stream;
The crowd flowed out of the stadium
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Stock
Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
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Flow
Move along, of liquids;
Water flowed into the cave
The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
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Stock
The type of paper used in printing.
The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
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Flow
Fall or flow in a certain way;
This dress hangs well
Her long black hair flowed down her back
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Stock
The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
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Flow
To move along steadily and continuously.
The river flows into the ocean.
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Flow
A steady, continuous stream of something.
There was a constant flow of traffic.
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Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
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Flow
The action of proceeding smoothly or naturally.
The conversation seemed to flow effortlessly.
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Stock
A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
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(firearm) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
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(nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
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(nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
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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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(folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
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A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
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A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
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The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
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Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
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(biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
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To have on hand for sale.
The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
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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
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Stock
To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
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(nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
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To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
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Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
Stock items
Stock sizes
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Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
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Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
He gave me a stock answer.
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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
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.
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The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
The scion overruleth the stock quite.
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A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
All our fathers worshiped 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.
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Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
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The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
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The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a rifle or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
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The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
And stand betwixt them made, when, severally,All told their stock.
Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stockFrom Dardanus.
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The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
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Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; - so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.
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The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
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The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
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Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
Add to that stock which justly we bestow.
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The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
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Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; - called also live stock.
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A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
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That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
I must buy the stock; send me good cardings.
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Stock
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. See Counterfoil.
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A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
With a linen stock on one leg.
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A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
He shall rest in my stocks.
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Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
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Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).
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An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
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In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpæ, etc.
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A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; - used in making soup, gravy, etc.
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Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock.
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A plain soap which is made into toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc.
At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.
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Stock
To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
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To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
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To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
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Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock phrase; a stock response; a stock sermon.
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Stock
The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity);
He owns a controlling share of the company's stock
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Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces;
She made gravy with a base of beef stock
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The merchandise that a shop has on hand;
They carried a vast inventory of hardware
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A supply of something available for future use;
He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
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The descendants of one individual;
His entire lineage has been warriors
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The handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun;
The rifle had been fitted with a special stock
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The reputation and popularity a person has;
His stock was so high he could have been elected mayor
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A special variety of domesticated animals within a species;
He experimented on a particular breed of white rats
He created a new strain of sheep
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Lumber used in the construction of something;
They will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter
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A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation;
The value of his stocks doubled during the past year
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A plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
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Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
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The handle end of some implements or tools;
He grabbed the cue by the stock
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Stock up on to keep for future use or sale;
Let's stock coffee as long as prices are low
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Stock
Provide or furnish with a stock of something;
Stock the larder with meat
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Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;
The plant sprouted early this year
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Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
Bromidic sermons
His remarks were trite and commonplace
Hackneyed phrases
A stock answer
Repeating threadbare jokes
Parroting some timeworn axiom
The trite metaphor `hard as nails'
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The trunk or main stem of a tree or plant.
The gardener grafted the branch onto a stronger stock.
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A liquid made by simmering bones or vegetables.
She made a rich stock for the soup.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
What is 'cash flow' in business?
It's the movement of money in and out of a business.
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Can 'stock' mean something other than financial shares?
Yes, it can refer to inventory or supply.
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How does 'flow' relate to water?
It's the movement of water in a stream or river.
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How is 'flow' used in psychology?
It refers to a state of immersion in an activity.
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Can 'stock' refer to animals?
Yes, it can mean farm animals or breeding animals.
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What is a 'stock' in finance?
It's a share representing ownership in a company.
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What is 'laminar flow'?
It's a smooth, uninterrupted flow in fluid dynamics.
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What does 'out of stock' mean?
It means an item is temporarily unavailable.
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Is there a 'stock market' for commodities?
Yes, there are markets for trading commodities.
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Does 'flow' apply only to liquids?
No, it can apply to any steady movement, like traffic.
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What does 'workflow' mean?
It's the sequence of processes through which work passes.
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How does 'flow' relate to electricity?
It's the movement of electric charge.
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What is 'airflow'?
It's the movement of air, often studied in aerodynamics.
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Is 'stock' used in cooking?
Yes, it's a flavored liquid base for soups or sauces.
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What is 'data flow' in computing?
It's the transfer of data between components.
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What does 'go with the flow' mean?
It means to adapt to circumstances without resistance.
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Can 'stock' mean a person's background?
Yes, referring to one's family or ancestry.
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