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Action
noun · 78% connection
A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Becket
noun · 78% connection
A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Bell jar
unknown · 78% connection
A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lift…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Billhook
noun · 78% connection
A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Bumkin
noun · 78% connection
A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Call
noun · 78% connection
the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Capital
noun · 78% connection
Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Carry
verb · 78% connection
To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Contributory
adjective · 78% connection
Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some commo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Convertible
noun · 78% connection
a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Coriolis force
noun · 78% connection
(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Corner
noun · 78% connection
The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of proper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Counter brace
unknown · 78% connection
A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Counterbrace
verb · 78% connection
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Crane
noun · 78% connection
A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral dista…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Curb market
noun · 78% connection
a stock market for trading in securities not listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
Extraction
noun · 78% connection
Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stock, handle, holding, rotating, brace.
