Refilling vs. Stock — What's the Difference?

To fill again.

Stock (also capital stock) is all of the shares into which ownership of a corporation is divided. In American English, the shares are collectively known as "stock".

A product packaged to replace the used contents of a container.

A supply accumulated for future use; a store.

A second or subsequent filling.

The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.

Present participle of refill

All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock.

The act of filling again; a refill.

All the aquatic animals kept or raised in an aquaculture operation.

Filling again by supplying what has been used up

A population of wild animals, especially of a species that is also farmed

A kind of financial security granting rights of ownership in a corporation, such as a claim to a portion of the assets and earnings of the corporation and the right to vote for the board of directors. Stock is issued and traded in units called shares.

The stock issued by a particular company

Chiefly British The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.

Chiefly British A bond, especially a government bond.

The trunk or main stem of a tree or another plant.

A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.

A plant or tree from which cuttings and slips are taken.

The original progenitor of a family line.

The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character

Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.

The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.

A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.

An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.

A group of related languages.

A group of related families of languages.

The raw material out of which something is made.

Paper used for printing.

The broth in which meat, fish, bones, or vegetables are simmered for a relatively long period, used as a base in preparing soup, gravy, or sauces.

A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.

Stocks(Nautical) The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.

Often stocks A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment.

Stocks A device consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes for confining the ankles and sometimes the wrists, formerly used for punishment.

(Nautical) A crosspiece at the end of the shank of an anchor.

The wooden block from which a bell is suspended.

The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.

The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.

A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools.

The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened.

A theatrical stock company.

The repertoire of such a company.

A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center

(Botany) Any of several Eurasian and Mediterranean plants of the genus Matthiola in the mustard family, especially M. incana, widely cultivated for its clusters of showy, fragrant, variously colored flowers.

(Games) The portion of a pack of cards or of a group of dominoes that is not dealt out but is drawn from during a game.

(Geology) A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.

(Zoology) A compound organism, such as a colony of zooids.

Personal reputation or status

Confidence or credence

A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.

A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.

Rolling stock.

To supply (a shop) with merchandise.

To supply (a farm) with livestock.

To fill (a stream, for example) with fish.

To keep for future sale or use.

To provide (a rifle, for example) with a stock.

(Obsolete) To put (someone) in the stocks as a punishment.

To gather and lay in a supply of something

To put forth or sprout new shoots. Used of a plant.

Kept regularly in stock

Repeated regularly without any thought or originality; routine

Employed in dealing with or caring for stock or merchandise

Of or relating to the raising of livestock

Used for breeding

Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire.

Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.

A store or supply.

(operations) 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.

(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 of a company on the stock market.

A share in a company.

(figurative) 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.

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.

Ellipsis of film stock

Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.

Stock theater, summer stock theater.

The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.

(horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.

(by extension) Lineage, family, ancestry.

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

A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.

(firearm) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.

The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.

Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.

The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.

The tailstock of a lathe.

A bar, stick or rod.

A ski pole.

(nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.

(nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.

(geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)

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.

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

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

(obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The beater of a fulling mill.

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

To have on hand for sale.

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

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

To put in the stocks as punishment.

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

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

Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.

Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.

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

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

The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.

The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a rifle or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.

The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.

The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.

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.

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.

Same as Stock account, below.

The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.

Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.

The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.

Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; - called also live stock.

A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.

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.

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.

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).

A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.

A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.

The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

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

Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).

An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.

A race or variety in a species.

In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpæ, etc.

The beater of a fulling mill.

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.

Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock.

A plain soap which is made into toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc.

To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.

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.

To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.

To put in the stocks.

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 phrase; a stock response; a stock sermon.

The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity);

Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces;

The merchandise that a shop has on hand;

A supply of something available for future use;

Not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit

The descendants of one individual;

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 reputation and popularity a person has;

A special variety of domesticated animals within a species;

Lumber used in the construction of something;

A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation;

Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia

A plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants

Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers

The handle end of some implements or tools;

Persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant

An ornamental white cravat

Have on hand;

Equip with a stock;

Supply with fish;

Supply with livestock;

Stock up on to keep for future use or sale;

Provide or furnish with a stock of something;

Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;

Routine;

Regularly and widely used or sold;