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arrow
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English arow, arwe, from Old English earh, arewe, arwe, from Proto-Germanic *arhw?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?érk?o- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv, ørvur (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (ar?azna, “dart”), Latin arquus, arcus (“bow”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æ?.??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æ?.o?/, /????.o?/, /???.o?/
- (Southern American) IPA(key): /?æ?.?/
- Hyphenation: ar?row
- Rhymes: -ær??
Noun
arrow (plural arrows)
- A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
- A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. ?).
- (graph theory) A directed edge.
- (colloquial, darts) A dart.
- 2014, John Eaton, It's Gonna Rain All Night (page 182)
- The second arrow flew through the air in a drunken parabolic curve and nestled just below the previous dart. Twenty!
“Good arrows!” came from all around the room. Total silence came from the opposition corner.
- The second arrow flew through the air in a drunken parabolic curve and nestled just below the previous dart. Twenty!
- 2014, John Eaton, It's Gonna Rain All Night (page 182)
- (computing) The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
- (botany) The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.
Synonyms
- (projectile): streal
- (in graph theory): arc, directed edge
Derived terms
Translations
See also
Verb
arrow (third-person singular simple present arrows, present participle arrowing, simple past and past participle arrowed)
- (intransitive) To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).
- (transitive) To let fly swiftly and directly.
- (intransitive, botany, of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence.
- (computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.
- Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete.
Etymology 2
Representing pronunciation.
Contraction
arrow
- (obsolete) Contraction of ever a (sometimes used with a redundant a or an).
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 153:
- though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 153:
Anagrams
- worra
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stock
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: st?k, IPA(key): /st?k/
- (US) enPR: stäk, IPA(key): /st?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: stalk (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Old English stocc, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”), with modern senses mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
Noun
stock (countable and uncountable, plural stocks or (obsolete) stocken)
- A store or supply.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- (figuratively) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Ellipsis of film stock
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- lineage, family, ancestry.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A bar, stick or rod.
- A ski pole.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
- 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 piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- 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 bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey
- Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey
- (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- (Britain, historical) 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.
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
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Synonyms
- (farm or ranch animals): livestock
- (railroad equipment): rolling stock
- (raw material): feedstock
- (paper for printing): card stock
- (plant used in grafting): rootstock, understock
- (axle attached to rudder): rudder stock
- (wide necktie): stock-tie
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
stock (third-person singular simple present stocks, present participle stocking, simple past and past participle stocked)
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
Translations
Adjective
stock (not comparable)
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- stock items
- stock sizes
- (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- That band is quite stock
- He gave me a stock answer
Translations
See also
- DJIA
- foodstock
Etymology 2
From Italian stoccata.
Noun
stock (plural stocks)
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
Anagrams
- 'tocks, tocks
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English stock.
Pronunciation
Noun
stock m (plural stocks, diminutive stockje n)
- stock, goods in supply
- basic capital
- shares (equity)
Derived terms
- stockdividend n
References
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English stock.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?k/
Noun
stock m (plural stocks)
- stock, goods in supply
- stock, a reserve (generally)
- Supply of (wild) fish available for commerce, stock
Derived terms
- stocker
- stockage
Further reading
- “stock” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English stock.
Noun
stock
- stock, goods in supply, inventory
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English stock.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?to?/, [es?t?o??]
Noun
stock m (plural stocks)
- stock, inventory
Further reading
- “stock” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish stokker, from Old Norse stokkr, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”).
Noun
stock c
- a log (trunk of a dead tree)
- a stock (of a gun)
- a pack of snus, usually ten, wrapped in plastic film or packed in a light cardboard box
- Synonyms: rulle, limpa
Declension
Related terms
- ekstock
- stocka
- stockeld
- Stockholm
- stockning
- timmerstock
See also
- balk
- bjälke
- flottning
- stam
- stuga
- timmer
- virke
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