What's the difference between cut and stock?

Cut


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cut
  • (v. t.) To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.
  • (v. t.) To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.
  • (v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
  • (v. t.) To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
  • (v. t.) To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.
  • (v. t.) To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.
  • (v. t.) To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.
  • (v. t.) To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.
  • (v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.
  • (v. i.) To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
  • (v. i.) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  • (v. i.) To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
  • (v. i.) To make a stroke with a whip.
  • (v. i.) To interfere, as a horse.
  • (v. i.) To move or make off quickly.
  • (v. i.) To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.
  • (n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.
  • (n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.
  • (n.) That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.
  • (n.) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.
  • (n.) The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.
  • (n.) A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.
  • (n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.
  • (n.) The act of dividing a pack cards.
  • (n.) The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?
  • (n.) Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.
  • (n.) A common work horse; a gelding.
  • (n.) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  • (n.) A skein of yarn.
  • (a.) Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
  • (a.) Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
  • (a.) Overcome by liquor; tipsy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (4) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
  • (5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
  • (6) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (7) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
  • (8) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
  • (9) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
  • (10) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (11) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
  • (12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (13) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
  • (14) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (15) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (16) Size comparison of the newly discovered Msp I fragment with a restriction map of the apolipoprotein A-I gene revealed that most likely the cutting site at the 5'-end of the normally seen 673 bp fragment is lost giving rise to the observed 719 bp Msp I fragment.
  • (17) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
  • (18) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
  • (19) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
  • (20) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.

Stock


Definition:

  • (n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
  • (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
  • (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
  • (n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
  • (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
  • (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
  • (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
  • (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
  • (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
  • (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
  • (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
  • (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.
  • (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
  • (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.
  • (n.) Same as Stock account, below.
  • (n.) Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
  • (n.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.
  • (n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
  • (n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
  • (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
  • (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
  • (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
  • (n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
  • (n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
  • (n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).
  • (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
  • (n.) A race or variety in a species.
  • (n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
  • (n.) The beater of a fulling mill.
  • (n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.
  • (v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
  • (v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
  • (v. t.) To put in the stocks.
  • (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (2) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
  • (3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
  • (4) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
  • (5) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
  • (6) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
  • (7) The PTA take 25% of sales, and most parents donate unsold stock."
  • (8) Analysis of mice injected with helper-free P90A virus stocks demonstrates that the variants are generated during viral replication in vivo, probably as a consequence of error-prone reverse transcription.
  • (9) Born in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin, he has also served on the board of the Washington Post, General Electric, Waterford Wedgwood and the New York Stock Exchange.
  • (10) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (11) Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, said: “Clearly, there is a much greater chance that the euro hits parity with the US dollar once again, as it first did in 1999.” Stock markets climbed and bond yields fell as the markets digested the full implications of the massive QE project that will involve the ECB buying €60bn (£45bn) of bonds a month until September 2016 or when eurozone inflation nears the central bank’s 2% target.
  • (12) First, the possibility of "vertical" transmission of the virus was examined, as the Papio stock in Sukhumi was genetically homogeneous.
  • (13) Results of trials designed to determine forage production at various stocking densities may not reflect the nutritive value of the forage, but instead the severity of parasite exposure.
  • (14) Shares in energy companies lost ground as the impact of the drop in oil prices rippled through European stock markets.
  • (15) In the 46 herds in which only the adult stock were slaughtered, 11 herds suffered breakdowns.
  • (16) "I believe it is important to take stock of how technological advances alter the environment in which we conduct our intelligence mission," he explained.
  • (17) World stock markets suffered another bout of heavy losses when trading began on Thursday, with the FTSE 100 falling 57 points within the opening minutes to 5879.
  • (18) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
  • (19) During the last ten years the stock of pigs in the Netherlands has doubled.
  • (20) Analysis by six enzymes (aspartate aminotransferase; alanine aminotransferase; malate dehydrogenase; glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; phosphoglucomutase; and glucose-phosphate isomerase) showed that these stocks have identical enzyme profiles and form a distinct zymodeme grouping.