The difference between Carry and Stock

When used as nouns, carry means a manner of transporting or lifting something, whereas stock means a store of goods ready for sale.

When used as verbs, carry means to lift (something) and take it to another place, whereas stock means to have on hand for sale.

Stock is also adjective with the meaning: of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

check bellow for the other definitions of Carry and Stock

  1. Carry as a verb (transitive):

    To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.

  2. Carry as a verb:

    To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.

    Examples:

    "to carry the war from Greece into Asia"

    "to carry an account to the ledger"

  3. Carry as a verb:

    To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

    Examples:

    "The builders are going to carry the chimney through nowrap the roof.  They would have carried the road ten miles further, but ran nowrap out of materials."

  4. Carry as a verb (transitive, mostly, archaic):

    To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.

  5. Carry as a verb (transitive):

    To stock or supply (something).

    Examples:

    "The corner drugstore doesn't carry his favorite brand of aspirin."

  6. Carry as a verb (transitive):

    To adopt (something); take (something) over.

    Examples:

    "I think I can carry Smith's work while she is out."

  7. Carry as a verb (transitive):

    To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly

    Examples:

    "The court carries that motion."

  8. Carry as a verb (transitive, arithmetic):

    In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.

    Examples:

    "Five and nine are fourteen; carry the one to the tens place."

  9. Carry as a verb (transitive):

    To have or maintain (something).

    Examples:

    "Always carry sufficient insurance to protect against a loss."

  10. Carry as a verb (intransitive):

    To be transmitted; to travel.

    Examples:

    "The sound of the bells carried for miles on the wind."

  11. Carry as a verb (slang, transitive):

    To insult, to diss.

  12. Carry as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.

  13. Carry as a verb (transitive, sports):

    To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.

  14. Carry as a verb (transitive):

    To have on one's person.

    Examples:

    "she always carries a purse;  marsupials carry their young in a pouch"

  15. Carry as a verb:

    To be pregnant (with).

    Examples:

    "The doctor said she's carrying twins."

  16. Carry as a verb:

    To have propulsive power; to propel.

    Examples:

    "A gun or mortar carries well."

  17. Carry as a verb:

    To hold the head; said of a horse.

    Examples:

    "to carry well, i.e. to hold the head high, with arching neck"

  18. Carry as a verb (hunting):

    To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Johnson"

  19. Carry as a verb:

    To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win.

    Examples:

    "The Tories carried the election."

  20. Carry as a verb (obsolete):

    To get possession of by force; to capture.

  21. Carry as a verb:

    To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.

  22. Carry as a verb (reflexive):

    To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.

  23. Carry as a verb:

    To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.

    Examples:

    "A merchant is carrying a large stock;  nowrap a farm carries nowrap a mortgage;  nowrap a broker carries stock for nowrap a customer;  nowrap to carry a life insurance."

  24. Carry as a verb (intransitive):

    To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.

  1. Carry as a noun:

    A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.

    Examples:

    "Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly."

  2. Carry as a noun:

    A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.

  3. Carry as a noun (computing):

    The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

  1. 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.

    Examples:

    "We have a stock of televisions on hand."

    "Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season."

  2. 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.

    Examples:

    "When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped [[precipitously]]."

    "After that last [[screw-up]] of mine, my stock is pretty low around here."

  3. 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.

    Examples:

    "The books were printed on a heavier stock this year."

  4. Stock as a noun:

    Stock theater, summer stock theater.

  5. 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.

  6. Stock as a noun:

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

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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)

  10. 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.

  11. Stock as a noun:

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

  12. 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.

  13. Stock as a noun (obsolete):

    A cover for the legs; a stocking.

  14. Stock as a noun:

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

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

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

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

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

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

  19. Stock as a noun (biology):

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

  20. Stock as a noun:

    The beater of a fulling mill.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  1. Stock as a verb:

    To have on hand for sale.

    Examples:

    "The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables."

  2. Stock as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "to stock a warehouse with goods"

    "to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools"

    "to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass"

  3. Stock as a verb:

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

  4. Stock as a verb:

    To put in the stocks as punishment.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  5. Stock as a verb (nautical):

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

  6. Stock as a verb (card games, dated):

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

  1. Stock as an adjective:

    Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

    Examples:

    "stock items"

    "stock sizes"

  2. 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.

  3. Stock as an adjective:

    Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

    Examples:

    "That band is quite stock"

    "He gave me a stock answer"

  1. Stock as a noun:

    A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

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