DICTOMETER

BESTAND (Norwegian for "stock")

(stock, ganado)

1. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
   Examples:
   • He owns a controlling share of the company's stock
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   • Inventory
   Definitions:
   • the merchandise that a shop has on hand
   Examples:
   • They carried a vast inventory of hardware
   • They stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   • Gunstock
   Definitions:
   • 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
   Examples:
   • The rifle had been fitted with a special stock
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Stock certificate
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
   Examples:
   • The value of his stocks doubled during the past year
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Store
   • Stock
   • Fund
   Definitions:
   • a supply of something available for future use
   Examples:
   • He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Lineage
   • Line
   • Line of descent
   • Descent
   • Bloodline
   • Blood line
   • Blood
   • Pedigree
   • Ancestry
   • Origin
   • Parentage
   • Stemma
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • the descendants of one individual
   Examples:
   • His entire lineage has been warriors
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Breed
   • Strain
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
   Examples:
   • He experimented on a particular breed of white rats
   • He created a new strain of sheep
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Broth
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered
   • used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
   Examples:
   • She made gravy with a base of beef stock
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • the reputation and popularity a person has
   Examples:
   • His stock was so high he could have been elected mayor
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Stock
    • Caudex
    Definitions:
    • persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Stock
    Definitions:
    • a plant or stem onto which a graft is made
    • especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Stock
    • Gillyflower
    Definitions:
    • any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Malcolm stock
    • Stock
    Definitions:
    • any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Stock
    Definitions:
    • lumber used in the construction of something
    Examples:
    • They will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Stock
    Definitions:
    • the handle end of some implements or tools
    Examples:
    • He grabbed the cue by the stock
    
    
16. Synonyms:
    • Neckcloth
    • Stock
    Definitions:
    • an ornamental white cravat
    
    
17. Synonyms:
    • Livestock
    • Stock
    • Farm animal
    Definitions:
    • any animals kept for use or profit
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   • Carry
   • Stockpile
   Definitions:
   • have on hand
   Examples:
   • Do you carry kerosene heaters?
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • equip with a stock
   Examples:
   • Stock a rifle
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • supply with fish
   Examples:
   • Stock a lake
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • supply with livestock
   Examples:
   • Stock a farm
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   • Buy in
   • Stock up
   Definitions:
   • amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
   Examples:
   • Let's stock coffee as long as prices are low
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • provide or furnish with a stock of something
   Examples:
   • Stock the larder with meat
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Sprout
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
   Examples:
   • The plant sprouted early this year
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Banal
   • Commonplace
   • Hackneyed
   • Old-hat
   • Shopworn
   • Stock
   • Threadbare
   • Timeworn
   • Tired
   • Trite
   • Well-worn
   Definitions:
   • repeated too often
   • overfamiliar through overuse
   Examples:
   • 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'
   Antonyms:
   • Original
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • routine
   Examples:
   • A stock answer
   Antonyms:
   • Nonstandard
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Standard
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • regularly and widely used or sold
   Examples:
   • A standard size
   • A stock item
   Antonyms:
   • Irregular