stock vs take

stock

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

  • 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. 

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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

take

verb
  • To fill, to use up (time or space). 

  • To accept (zero or more arguments). 

  • To seize or capture. 

  • To remove. 

  • To go. 

  • To become; to be affected in a specified way. 

  • To obtain money from, especially by swindling. 

  • To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it. 

  • To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). 

  • To proceed to fill. 

  • To participate in. 

  • To let in (water). 

  • To move into. 

  • To catch or get possession of (fish or game). 

  • To assume (a form). 

  • To go into, through, or along. 

  • To apply oneself to the study of. 

  • To deal with. 

  • To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold. 

  • To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game. 

  • To have sex with. 

  • To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right). 

  • To obtain for use by payment or lease. 

  • To experience or feel. 

  • To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation. 

  • To carry or lead (something or someone). 

  • To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage). 

  • An intensifier. 

  • To require. 

  • To avail oneself of. 

  • To escort or conduct (a person). 

  • To catch or contract (an illness, etc). 

  • To receive into some relationship. 

  • To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider. 

  • To catch; to engage. 

  • To grasp or grip. 

  • To transport or carry; to convey to another place. 

  • To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure). 

  • To exact. 

  • To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir). 

  • To remove or end by death; to kill. 

  • To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of. 

  • To believe, to accept the statements of. 

  • To cause to change to a specified state or condition. 

  • To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching. 

  • To subtract. 

  • To bind oneself by. 

  • To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to. 

  • To partake of (food or drink); to consume. 

  • To perform (a role). 

  • To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something). 

  • To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc). 

  • To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing. 

  • To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation). 

  • To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off. 

  • To accept and follow (advice, etc). 

  • To use as a means of transportation. 

  • To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity. 

  • To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription. 

  • To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind. 

  • To select or choose; to pick. 

  • To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source. 

  • To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do. 

  • To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass. 

  • To get or accept (something) into one's possession. 

  • To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. 

  • To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something). 

  • To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry. 

  • To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest. 

  • To have the intended effect. 

  • To regard in a specified way. 

  • To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc). 

  • To adopt (select) as one's own. 

  • To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example. 

  • To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around. 

  • To defeat (someone or something) in a fight. 

  • To adhere or be absorbed properly. 

  • To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc). 

  • To understand (especially in a specified way). 

  • To have and use one's recourse to. 

noun
  • A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event. 

  • An approach, a (distinct) treatment. 

  • An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position. 

  • A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene. 

  • A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period. 

  • An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination. 

  • The or an act of taking. 

  • A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper). 

  • The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time. 

  • Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits. 

  • The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch. 

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