head vs stock

head

noun
  • The leafy top part of a tree. 

  • A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs. 

  • The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects. 

  • The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked. 

  • A headdress; a covering for the head. 

  • A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle. 

  • The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor. 

  • The uppermost part of a valley. 

  • The antlers of a deer. 

  • Mental or emotional aptitude or skill. 

  • A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication. 

  • The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data. 

  • The headstock of a guitar. 

  • The top edge of a sail. 

  • A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum. 

  • The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint. 

  • The toilet of a ship. 

  • An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal. 

  • A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium. 

  • Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. 

  • The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide. 

  • A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound. 

  • Headway; progress. 

  • Mind; one's own thoughts. 

  • Topic; subject. 

  • The end of an abscess where pus collects. 

  • The topmost, foremost, or leading part. 

  • The glans penis. 

  • The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball. 

  • Deposits near the top of a geological succession. 

  • The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it. 

  • The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages. 

  • A headmaster or headmistress. 

  • Denouement; crisis. 

  • The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel. 

  • A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop. 

  • The end cap of a cask or other barrel. 

  • A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head. 

  • Leader; chief; mastermind. 

  • Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex. 

  • The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs. 

  • An individual person. 

  • The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. 

  • The bow of a vessel. 

  • A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member. 

  • The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer. 

  • The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point. 

  • The population of game. 

  • The principal melody or theme of a piece. 

  • A single animal. 

  • The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front. 

  • A headland. 

  • More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight. 

verb
  • To be in command of. (See also head up.) 

  • To come at the beginning or front of; to commence. 

  • To form a head. 

  • To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head. 

  • To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball 

  • To go in front of. 

  • To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose. 

  • To move in a specified direction. 

  • To check or restrain. 

  • To remove the head from a fish. 

  • To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river. 

  • To cut off the top of; to lop off. 

  • To set on the head. 

adj
  • Of, relating to, or intended for the head. 

  • Coming from in front. 

  • Placed at the top or the front. 

  • Foremost in rank or importance. 

stock

noun
  • The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches. 

  • A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. 

  • In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc. 

  • Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola. 

  • Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup. 

  • A stack of undealt cards made available to the players. 

  • The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued. 

  • The plant upon which the scion is grafted. 

  • A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore) 

  • Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. 

  • The type of paper used in printing. 

  • Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one. 

  • Lineage, family, ancestry. 

  • The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder. 

  • Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed. 

  • The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder. 

  • 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. 

  • The tailstock of a lathe. 

  • The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc. 

  • A share in a company. 

  • 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. 

  • A store of goods ready for sale; inventory. 

  • A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar. 

  • A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post. 

  • Farm or ranch animals; livestock. 

  • A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes. 

  • A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle 

  • The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use. 

  • A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings. 

  • The beater of a fulling mill. 

  • Stock theater, summer stock theater. 

  • A ski pole. 

  • A supply of anything ready for use. 

  • A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily. 

  • The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc. 

  • The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction. 

  • The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market. 

  • Railroad rolling stock. 

verb
  • To put in the stocks as punishment. 

  • To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale. 

  • To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place. 

  • To have on hand for sale. 

  • To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply. 

adj
  • Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic. 

  • Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock. 

  • Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car. 

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