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stoc — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bugle noun A brass wind instrument without valves, used mainly for military calls, played by adjusting lip pressure to move between notes.
  • livestock noun Animals kept on a farm, such as cattle, sheep, or pigs, raised for food, labour, or other products.
  • root noun The underground part of a plant that anchors it and draws in water and nutrients.
  • stock noun The goods a shop or business keeps available to sell.
  • stump noun The part of a tree, plant, or limb left behind after the rest has been cut off.
  • trumpet noun A brass musical instrument played by buzzing the lips into a mouthpiece, typically with valves to change pitch.
  • trunk verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.

Senses

stoc is used for these senses in English:

  • bugle (brass instrument) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  • livestock Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
  • root (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
  • stump The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
  • tree trunk (botany) The main structural member of a tree.
  • trumpet (brass instrument) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
  • trunk (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.

bugle — full definition

  1. noun A brass wind instrument without valves, used mainly for military calls, played by adjusting lip pressure to move between notes.
  2. verb To sound a call in the manner of a bugle, or to announce something loudly.

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