stock

n

1. supply, store, stockpile, inventory; quantity, fund, lot, bunch, heap, pile, mass, stack, load, Chiefly U.S. Dial. grist; assortment, range, selection, variety; collection, accumulation, amassment, aggregate, Obs. commodity; reserve, reservoir, backlog, nest egg, hoard; treasure, mine, quarry, well;-storeroom, stockroom, storehouse, warehouse, magazine, pantry, larder, repository, cache.

2. provisions, supplies, stores, rations, goods, dry goods, provender; groceries, produce, food, foodstuff, edibles, eatables, comestibles, viands, victuals, Inf. vittles, bread and butter; forage, fodder, feed, grain, hay, silage, ensilage; wares, commodities, products, items, articles, things; stock in trade, merchandise, vendibles, salables, assets, capital, investment.

3. livestock, animals, domestic or farm animals; cattle, cows, neat, Archaic. kine; horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens.

4. trunk, treetrunk, base of a tree, bottom, foundation; stalk, stem, caudex, culm, Brit. haulm, cane, calamus, quill, Bot. caulis, Bot. caulicle, Bot. axis; leafstalk, Bot. stipe, Bot. petiole, Bot. pedicle, Bot. pedicel, Both Bot., Zool. peduncle, footstalk, Both Bot. funicle, funiculus, Bot. gynophore.

5. species, breed, genus, subgenus, class, Biol. phylum; denomination, name, classification, category, subcategory, division, subdivision, section, branch; type, kind, sort, genre, Both Genetics. genotype, phenotype; brand, make, cast, cut, mold, form, style, manner; grain, feather, tone, color, stripe.

6. race, people, Both Sociol. ethnic group, ethnos; dynasty, house, family, clan, sept, relatives, flesh and blood, kind, Anthropol. gens; lineage, line of descent, descent, genealogy, pedigree, bloodline, family, ancestry, parentage, heritage, background, extraction.

7. progenitor, primogenitor, forefather, ancestor, forebear, Archaic. predecessor; patriarch, father, pro-creator, begettor; founder, originator, source; forerunner, precursor, foregoer, antecedent; prototype, archetype, first form, original; model, pattern, paradigm, exemplar, Television. pilot.

8. haft, hilt, helve, lug, withe, handle, grip, hold, grasp, command, pull; spindle, swivel, pivot; shaft, shank, butt, end; frame, framework, skeleton, body, chassis, hull, shell, main or principal part, bulk, mass, majority, most.

9. stump, tree stump, log; stub, (of a tail) dock, wooden leg, Inf. peg, artificial limb, prosthesis.

10. blockhead, numskull, bonehead, knucklehead, lunkhead, Inf. woodenhead; dunce, dope, thickhead, Inf. stupid, Sl. dumbbell, Inf. dummy; lout, clod, oaf, boor, Inf. lummox, looby, Sl. meathead, Sl. klutz; dullard, dolt, dunderhead, ignoramus, Inf. chump; lamebrain, half-wit, lightweight, idiot, moron, imbecile, cretin, retardate, Sl. retard; fool, tomfool, nincompoop, ninny, simpleton, Sl. sap, Sl. dingbat, Sl. ding-a-ling, Sl. meatball, Sl. boob, Sl. booby, Sl. noodle, Sl. nudnick, Sl. blubberhead.

11. dummy, mannequin, model, effigy; carcass, corpse, cadaver, dead body, Sl. stiff; thing, Sl. block of wood, Sl. piece of furniture, Sl. dead wood, Both. Theat. property, prop.

12. upright, column, pillar, post, standard, pier, caryatid, telamon, atlas, verticle, support, Chiefly Dial. stob, Both Naut. mast, spar; spine, backbone, chine; pole, spoke, rod, pin, spindle; pile, pylon, spike, stake; support, footing, base.

13. raw material, resource, stuff; material, fabric, cloth, substance; Both Printing, Publishing. paper, newsprint.

14.Cookery. broth, bouillon, consomme1, soup; liquid, juice, gravy, blood; concentrate, essence, heart, quintessence; foundation, base, basic or main ingredient.

15. shoot, offshoot, Bot. rhizome, Bot. rootstalk, Bot. rootstock, Bot. rootlet; runner, creeper, Bot. stolen, Bot. sarmentum, Bot. flagellum.

16. collar, collaret, neckcloth, neckpiece, dickey, gorget, wimple; ruff, rabato, ruche, bertha, boa; neckerchief, kerchief, scarf, ascot, cravat, tie, bowtie; necklace, choker, neckband, ribbon.

adj

17. staple, basic, fundamental, regular, regularly or always in stock or in supply or on hand, permanent, easy to find; essential, necessary, needed, required, indispensable, important, vital, sustenative; standard, classic, recognized, established, acknowledged, accepted, approved, official, authoritative; customary, consuetudinary, normal, usual, traditional, conventional, expected, familiar; most important, primary, prime, principal, main, chief, leading, foremost, biggest; most popular, highly requested, in demand.

18. common, ordinary, average, Inf. plain old, garden-variety, Inf. dime-a-dozen, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, pedestrian; commonplace, everyday, household, G.I.; oft-repeated, oft-met, often heard, Inf. same old; banal, hackneyed, trite, stale, overused, overworked, worn out, old, tired.

v

19. supply, provision, ration, provender, fill up; equip, furnish, outfit, gear, accouter, prepare, ready, get ready, make ready; handle, keep, provide, offer, deal in, trade, sell, market; store, store up, lay in, stock up on, accumulate, amass, heap up, pile up, stack up, gather, collect, buy up; save, reserve, put away, Inf. salt away, retain, hold, hoard; cache, stow away, Sl. stash; provide for a rainy day, build a nest egg, feather one's nest; put up, can, salt down, preserve, conserve; refrigerate, put on ice, bottle, jar, Brit. tin.