What's the difference between sock and stocking?

Sock


Definition:

  • (n.) A plowshare.
  • (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
  • (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
  • (n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She's found what is her true vocation and she's working her socks off."
  • (2) City wear their customary home colours of light blue shirts, white shorts and white socks.
  • (3) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
  • (4) But people who don't, they'll pick that sock up from off the floor.
  • (5) He hasn't nicked stuff from you, been sick in your sock drawer, sworn at your mother or made a pass at your girlfriend.
  • (6) I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail,” he wrote in his autobiography.
  • (7) A database of fast MP and BP was compiled from intraoperative recordings collected from epicardial sock arrays in man.
  • (8) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
  • (9) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
  • (10) The city of free love has passed laws banning public nudity, which men get around with a carefully hung sock.
  • (11) I followed him to a room on a ßoor which I didn't know existed and he told me to take off my shoes and enter alone in my socks.
  • (12) Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills.
  • (13) Her feet, swollen by bad circulation, were clad only in socks as she heard the ruling delivered at the House of Lords.
  • (14) Our brothers, with their cool logic (despite their penchant for mismatched socks), and our ruthlessly honest best mates.
  • (15) After a hard-fought victory one freezing night last November the jubilant forward sprinted off the pitch and hurled his shirt, shorts, socks and boots into the crowd, Sun, the chairman, recalled.
  • (16) In no case did an accessory pathway fail to conduct following sock placement.
  • (17) They are wearing all blue, while the Socceroos are in their gold shirts, white socks and, thank goodness, green shorts.
  • (18) I put on a pair of jogging bottoms, an old fleece hoodie and some flip-flops over my socks.
  • (19) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
  • (20) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).

Stocking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stock
  • (n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
  • (v. t.) To dress in GBs.

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.