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A stock is a share of ownership in a company. See stock. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... It has been suggested that shareholder be merged into this article or section. ...

Supply and inventory

Stock in general refers to the equipment, materials, or supplies of an establishment or a store or supply accumulated or available, as in:

• Livestock kept on a farm.
• Stock (food), a soup and flavoring base
• Inventory, a term for "finished goods", or sometimes raw material kept in storage.
• Stock (cards),the common pile of undealt playing cards from which players draw in a number of card games.
• Stock media, set material which can be used by other people (and is sometimes created for the purpose), either for free or for a set fee. Examples include:
  • Stock footage
  • Stock photography
  • Stock sound effects
  • Clipart
  • Packs/downloads for 3D design programs such as Poser or 3D Studio Max.
• Rolling stock as used in railway operation
• Stock, the base material used in some fabrication work, such as wood for woodworking or the metal used in a welding application.

Sheep are commonly bred as livestock. ... Bales of hay on a farm near Ames, Iowa A farm is the basic unit in agriculture. ... Stock is a flavoured liquid. ... In business management, inventory consists of a list of goods and materials held available in stock. ... The stock is a pile of undealt playing cards that players draw from while playing any of various card games. ... Some typical modern playing cards. ... // For the game on The Price Is Right, please see Card Game (pricing game). ... Stock footage, also termed archive footage, library pictures and file footage is film or video footage either in the public domain or available for a set fee that can thus be put into any other film. ... It has been suggested that Stock Photos be merged into this article or section. ... Royalty Free Music How It Works A lot of companies need source music whether it be for Multimedia, Film, Radio or TV, but they cant afford the royalties of paying for each usage. ... Categories: Stub ... A 3D rendering with raytracing and ambient occlusion using Blender and Yafray 3D computer graphics are works of graphic art that were created with the aid of digital computers and specialized 3D software. ... Dharma Juggler, by Gunther Berkus, 1997. ... 3D Studio Max (name changed to 3DS Max, also sometimes called 3dsm, or just Max) is a 3D modeler developed by Autodesk Media & Entertainment (formerly known as Discreet and Kinetix). ... Rolling Stock banner Rolling Stock was a newspaper of ideas and a chronicle of the 1980s published in Boulder, Colorado by Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar Dorn. ...

Original

Stock may also mean the original (as a person, race, or language) from which others derive, as in:

• Rootstock, a stump used for grafting
• (Linguistic) stock, a group of related languages or language families

Grafting is a method of plant propagation by which one woody plant is mechanically attached to another so that the two eventually fuse together. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ...

Names

Stock or stocks is also the name of:

• Stock, Essex is a village in the county of Essex, England.
• Stocks House is a country house in Aldbury, Hertfordshire which was the setting for the album cover of Oasis' Be Here Now
• Stock (publishing house)
• Matthiola incana, a flower
• An album by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori; see STOCK (music)
• Robert Stock, German entrepreneur

Stock is a village in central Essex. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A Georgian mansion, built in 1773, is the largest property in the village of Aldbury, Hertfordshire. ... Aldbury is a village in Hertfordshire in England, near the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. ... Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county in the United Kingdom and part of the East of England Government Office region. ... British rock band Oasis, formed in Manchester in 1991, led by lead guitarist and principal songwriter Noel Gallagher and his younger brother Liam are one of the most successful and prominent British rock and roll bands ever. ... Be Here Now is the third studio album by British rock band Oasis, first released in August 1997 (see 1997 in music). ... Akina Nakamori ) is a Japanese pop singer and actress born on 13 July 1965 in Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan. ... Stock is Akina Nakamoris 12th original album. ...

Other usages

Other meanings and usages of the word stock include:

• The American form of repertory theatre as practiced in England.
• A wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
• Stocks, a device used for public humiliation, punishment, and torture.
• A grappling term for a type of spinal lock.
• Stock (firearm)
• The distinction between stock and flows, a core concept of System dynamics
• Stock in geology refers to a medium sized igneous intrusion with outcrop area less than about 100 km².
• Fish stocks refers to a fish population in a defined area which is of interest to fishery managers.

This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Blue necktie. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... The stocks are a device used since medieval times for public humiliation, corporal punishment, and torture. ... A spinal lock is a multiple joint lock applied to the spinal column, which is performed by forcing the spine beyond its normal ranges of motion. ... A stock or buttstock is present in many firearms and some crossbows to transfer the recoil from firing the weapon into the shooters shoulder. ... A stock in business and social accounting refers to the value of an asset at a balance date (or point in time), while a flow refers to the total value of transactions (sales or purchases) during an accounting period. ... System Dynamics is an approach to understanding the behaviour of complex systems over time. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Pluton redirects here. ... Fish stocks are subpopulations of a particular species of fish, for which intrinsic parameters (growth, recruitment, mortality and fishing mortality) are the only significant factors in determining population dynamics, while extrinsic factors (immigration and emmigration) are considered to be insignificant. ...

References

• stock, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Accessed 2006-10-19

2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Woodstock (disambiguation)
• Stalking (disambiguation)
• Stocking
• Stoke

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