The difference between Card stock and Stock

Card stock as a noun:

A paper stock that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than other forms of paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.

Stock as a noun (operations):

A store or supply. A store of goods ready for sale; inventory. A supply of anything ready for use. Railroad rolling stock. 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.

Stock as a noun (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. 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.

Stock as a noun (cooking, uncountable, countable):

The raw material from which things are made; feedstock. Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup. The type of paper used in printing. Undeveloped film; film stock. Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.

Stock as a noun:

Stock theater, summer stock theater.

Stock as a noun (horticulture):

The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches. The plant upon which the scion is grafted. lineage, family, ancestry. # A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.

Stock as a noun:

Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.

Stock as a noun (firearm):

A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached. The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder. The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.

Stock as a noun:

Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place. The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc. The tailstock of a lathe.

Stock as a noun (nautical):

A bar, stick or rod. A ski pole. A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes. The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder. A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)

Stock as a noun:

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.

Stock as a noun:

A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle

Stock as a noun (folklore):

A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.

Stock as a noun (obsolete):

A cover for the legs; a stocking.

Stock as a noun:

A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

Stock as a noun (by extension, obsolete):

A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

Stock as a noun (UK, 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.

Stock as a noun (shipbuilding, in the plural):

The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.

Stock as a noun (UK, in the plural):

Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

Stock as a noun (biology):

In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

Stock as a noun:

The beater of a fulling mill.

Stock as a verb:

To have on hand for sale.

Stock as a verb:

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

Stock as a verb:

To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.

Stock as a verb:

To put in the stocks as punishment.

Stock as a verb (nautical):

To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

Stock as a verb (card games, dated):

To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

Stock as an adjective:

Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

Stock as an adjective (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.

Stock as an adjective:

Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

Stock as a noun:

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.