Adjustment (n.) The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted |
Adjustment (n.) Settlement of claims |
Adjustment (n.) The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use |
Mahon stock () An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean. |
Principle (n.) Beginning |
Principle (n.) A source, or origin |
Principle (n.) An original faculty or endowment. |
Principle (n.) A fundamental truth |
Principle (n.) A settled rule of action |
Principle (n.) Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis |
Principle (v. t.) To equip with principles |
Stock (n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant |
Stock (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. |
Stock (n.) A block of wood |
Stock (n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post |
Stock (n.) The principal supporting part |
Stock (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured |
Stock (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring |
Stock (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted |
Stock (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor. |
Stock (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself. |
Stock (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws |
Stock (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. |
Stock (n.) The original progenitor |
Stock (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business |
Stock (n.) Same as Stock account, below. |
Stock (n.) Supply provided |
Stock (n.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm |
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 |
Stock (n.) A thrust with a rapier |
Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot |
Stock (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck |
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. |
Stock (n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building. |
Stock (n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. |
Stock (n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola |
Stock (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone. |
Stock (n.) A race or variety in a species. |
Stock (n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc. |
Stock (n.) The beater of a fulling mill. |
Stock (n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking |
Stock (v. t.) To lay up |
Stock (v. t.) To provide with material requisites |
Stock (v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows. |
Stock (v. t.) To put in the stocks. |
Stock (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply |
Stock-blind (a.) Blind as a stock |
Stock-still (a.) Still as a stock, or fixed post |
Tool-stock (n.) The part of a tool-rest in which a cutting tool is clamped. |
incentive option incentive stock option | an option granted to corporate executives if the company achieves certain financial goals |
alteration modification adjustment | the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) |
split stock split split up | an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity, they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock |
reverse split reverse stock split split down | a decrease in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity |
technical analysis technical analysis of stock trends | (stock exchange) analysis of past price changes in the hope of forecasting future price changes |
adjustment registration readjustment | the act of adjusting something to match a standard |
inventory inventorying stocktaking stock-taking | making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand, an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing, they held an inventory every month |
stocktake stock-take | an instance of stocktaking, the auditor did not attend the stocktake or check the valuations |
stock issue | (corporation law) the authorization and delivery of shares of stock for sale to the public or the shares thus offered at a particular time |
livestock stock farm animal | any animals kept for use or profit |
American Stock Exchange AMEX Curb | a stock exchange in New York |
neckcloth stock | an ornamental white cravat |
New York Stock Exchange N. Y. Stock Exchange NYSE big board | a stock exchange in New York |
rolling stock | collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier |
stock inventory | the merchandise that a shop has on hand, they carried a vast inventory of hardware, they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory |
stock | the handle end of some implements or tools, he grabbed the cue by the stock |
stock gunstock | 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, the rifle had been fitted with a special stock |
stock | lumber used in the construction of something, they will cut round stock to -inch diameter |
stock car | a racing car with the basic chassis of a commercially available car |
stock car | a car kept in dealers' stock for regular sales |
stock exchange stock market securities market | an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers |
stock-in-trade | any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation, friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade |
stockroom stock room | storeroom for storing goods and supplies used in a business |
stock saddle Western saddle | an ornamented saddle used by cowboys, has a high horn to hold the lariat |
ticker stock ticker | a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape |
stocktaking stock-taking | reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook |
rationale principle | (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature), the rationale for capital punishment, the principles of internalombustion engines |
working principle working rule | a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done |
fundamentals basics fundamental principle basic principle bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
pleasure principle pleasure-pain principle pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
reality principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego, the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it |
principle | a basic truth or law or assumption, the principles of democracy |
rudiment first rudiment first principle alphabet ABC ABC's ABCs | the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural), he mastered only the rudiments of geometry |
principle rule | a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system, the principle of the conservation of mass, the principle of jet propulsion, the right-hand rule for inductive fields |
Archimedes' principle law of Archimedes | (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid |
Gestalt law of organization Gestalt principle of organization | a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization |
Le Chatelier's principle Le Chatelier's law Le Chatelier principle Le Chatelier-Braun principle | the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change |
Pauli exclusion principle exclusion principle | no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers |
stock purchase plan | an organized plan for employees of a company to buy shares of its stock |
employee stock ownership plan ESOP | a program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company |
principle rule | a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct, their principles of composition characterized all their works |
principle | a rule or standard especially of good behavior, a man of principle, he will not violate his principles |
accounting principle accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
ethic moral principle value-system value orientation | the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group, the Puritan ethic, a person with old-fashioned values |
legal principle judicial principle judicial doctrine | (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence |
principle of relativity | (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred |
Occam's Razor Ockham's Razor principle of parsimony law of parsimony | the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly, the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred |
principle of equivalence | (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference |
principle of liquid displacement | (hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluid |
principle of superposition Huygens' principle of superposition | the displacement of any point due to the superposition of wave systems is equal to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that point, the principle of superposition is the basis of the wave theory of light |