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Definition: Stocking |
StockingAdjective1. Wearing stockings; "walks about in his stockinged (or stocking) feet". Noun1. Close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural). 2. The activity of supplying a stock of something; "he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stocking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Stocking \Stock"ing\, noun. [From Stock, which was formerly used of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | Releasing into a given habitat(e. g. stream, lake, woodland)for replenishment purposes, wildlife, particularly mammalia, birds and fish, specifically reared or captured elsewhere. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The mean density of the animal population of an area, expressed absolutely in terms of range area per animal or animal unit. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Releasing wildlife, particularly mammals, birds, and fish, specifically reared or captured elsewhere into a given habitat(e. g. stream, lake, woodland)for replenishment purposes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A measure of the proportion of the area actually occupied by trees, expressed e. g. in terms of stocked quadrats or percentage canopy closure, as distinct from their stand density. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Stocking (See Blue Stocking .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Personal Care & Hotels | Stocking: a close-fitting covering for the foot and leg reaching above the knee and usu. knit of nylon, silk, wool or cotton. . also hose OLFHA 74. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Half-stockings, covering the foot and part of the calf only, are commonly called socks. This word is an adaptation of Latin soccus, a slipper or light shoe. It was the shoe worn by the actors in Roman comedy—and so was used symbolically of comedy, as buskin, the high boot, was of tragedy. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911)
Stockings were originally an exclusively male piece of apparel. In the 17th century women who took up the masculine fashion of wearing stockings were associated with aspiring to learnedness and other protofeminist causes, which led to the derogatory term blue-stocking.
Portions from 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica
See also: socks, tabi, hosiery
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stocking."
Synonym: StockingSynonym: stockinged (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan; (deceiver); petit maitre; (fop); flatterer; coquette, prude, puritan. |
Clothing | Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stocking |
| English words defined with "stocking": Christmas stocking ♦ Flipe, Foot gear, Footglove ♦ garter ♦ Hogger, Hypothec ♦ instep ♦ stocking filler, stocking stuffer, stockinged, Stockinger, support hose, support stocking, supporter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stocking": Carrying capacity, CHIEF, FISHERY DIVISION, COUNTER SUPERVISOR ♦ golf hose ♦ knee-high stocking ♦ LOOPING MACHINE, LOUSE LADDER ♦ MANAGER, GAME PRESERVE ♦ SUPERVISOR, OPEN-HEARTH STOCKYARD ♦ TOE BOARD. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stocking": Hose. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah well when I was a kid, the man filling my stocking was black. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) I'm going to shove coal so far up your stocking you'll be coughing up diamonds! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) I am not eating octopus, walking around in my stocking feet, or takin' a bath with my neighbors no matter what those little people say. (Designing Women; writing credit: Poul Thomsen) | |
Lyrics | With the hole in her stocking (HELP ME; performing artist: Joni Mitchell) | |
Tongue Twisters | Santa stuffs Stephie's striped stocking. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Silk Stocking Sal (1924) The Other Stocking (1917) All Over a Stocking (1916) The White Stocking (1914) Leather Stocking (1909) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Stocking juvenile fish into grow-out cage. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Aquaculture facility on Lee Stocking Island, run by NURP's Caribbean center. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Perry wet sub and mobile habitat (MOHAB) off Lee Stocking Island. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | NURP's Caribbean Marine Research Center on Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Stromatolites off NURP's research center on Lee Stocking Island. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Fish Stocking in Improved Streams in PA. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | U.S. Army. Base Hospital No.37, Dartford, England. : The Red Cross Christmas Stocking. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | A stocking from Uncle Santa Claus : Little Alphonzo -- well, the old fellow really wasn't so bad after all. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | William McKinley and high priced Christmas stocking. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gas plant. Stocking a furnace, Alexandria City. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He tried to pull on his stocking. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | It slipped off like a stocking, slipped off the body to the neck, and off the legs to the paws. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The use of a stocking distributor is recommended. (references) | |
Most consumer goods are imported by stocking distributors who resell to retailers. (references) | ||
Appropriate stocking distributors allow timely response to orders of products and spare parts. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sri Lanka | If products require stocking or servicing, however, large firms are often better. (references) |
Philippines | There are currently two types of importers in the Philippines-- stocking distributors and indentors. (references) | |
Japan | As a result, they require frequent stocking by wholesalers using small trucks that can navigate the narrow streets. (references) | |
Trade | Mexico | Products are ordered as they are needed, and it can be difficult to find stocking distributors. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stocking" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.04% of the time. "Stocking" is used about 323 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 69.04% | 223 | 20,178 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 30.65% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.31% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 323 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "stocking" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stocking | Last name | 1,000 | 15,651 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "stocking": Blue stocking ♦ body stocking ♦ Christmas stocking ♦ Laced stocking ♦ net stocking ♦ nylon stocking ♦ rate of stocking ♦ rayon stocking ♦ silk stocking ♦ stocking cap ♦ stocking density ♦ stocking filler ♦ stocking frame ♦ stocking point ♦ stocking rate ♦ stocking stitch ♦ stocking stuffer ♦ support stocking ♦ surgical stocking ♦ the leg of a stocking ♦ woollen stocking. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stocking": stocking-feet, stocking-filler, stocking-fillers, stocking-filling, stocking-making, stocking-masked, stocking-masks, stocking-top, stocking-tops. | |
Ending with "stocking": re-stocking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
stocking | 5,622 | white stocking | 158 |
mania stocking | 1,930 | stocking fetish | 150 |
christmas stocking | 1,278 | seamed stocking | 145 |
nylon stocking | 1,143 | teen stocking | 134 |
stocking mania.com | 645 | girl in stocking | 124 |
body stocking | 524 | compression stocking | 118 |
sexy stocking | 479 | stocking garter | 116 |
leg stocking | 391 | stocking top | 113 |
black stocking | 390 | teen in stocking | 108 |
silk stocking | 359 | support stocking | 102 |
high heel stocking | 334 | fully fashioned stocking | 92 |
thigh high stocking | 315 | stocking suspender | 91 |
stocking sex | 279 | stocking girl | 83 |
fishnet stocking | 227 | mature stocking | 80 |
stocking foot | 216 | stocking hq | 79 |
heel stocking | 198 | free stocking pic | 79 |
stocking pic | 190 | stocking tan | 76 |
stocking gallery | 176 | stocking picture | 74 |
woman in stocking | 173 | pantie hose stocking | 73 |
stocking tgp | 171 | plus size stocking | 73 |
secretary stocking | 73 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "stocking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | kous. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | çorape (hose, hosiery, socks, tights). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جورب (hose, hosiery, sock, socks), جرد (denude, deprive, dispossess, divest, empty, inventory, oust, riffle, shear, strip, sucker, unclothe), شىء كالجورب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дълъг чорап, долната част на крака на кон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 長襪 (hose), 长袜. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornish | loder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | punèocha. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | strømpe (shield, shielding, sleeving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kous (thimble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ŝtrumpo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sokkur, hosa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | جوراب زنانه ساقه بلند. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sukka (hose, sock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bas, stockage (stock, stockpilling, storage, store). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | hoas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Strumpf (mantle, sock), kniestrumpf (knee sock, knee-length sock, sock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάλτσες (socks, stockings), κάλτσα (hose, sock), συσσώρευση (accumulating, accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, conglomeration, cumulation, hoarding), συνάθροιση (assemblage, concourse, congregation, gathering, muster, rally), συμφόρηση (congeries, congestion), γυναικεία κάλτσα, πυκνότητα φύτευσης, περιπόδια, εμπλουτισμός (beneficiation, dressing, enhancement, enriching, enrichment, enrichment process, preparation, processing, reinforcement, re-introducing, repopulation, restocking, supplementing natural regeneration, treatment), επανεισαγωγή (readmission, reimport, re-import, re-importation, re-introducing, repopulation, restocking), αποθήκευση (storage, storing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'רב (hose, sock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kamásli (anklet, gaiter, leggings, puttees, spat), harisnya (moggan, stockings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kaos kaki (socks), kaos (singlet, sock, undershirt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | calza (knitting, sock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 仕入れ (buying up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しいれ (buying up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 스타킹. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | oashyr (blade; sock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | strømpe (hose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | meya (sock), meña (sock), mea (sock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockingstay meia (sock). (various references) ciorap (hose, hosiery, sock). (various references) чулок. (various references) osan (a hose). (various references) čarapa (sock). (various references) media (a half, average, half, mean, medium, sock). (various references) kowsu. (various references) strumpa (sock). (various references) ถุงเท้ายาว (hose), ถุงน่อง. (various references) çorap (footwear, hose, sock). (various references) панчоха (netherstock). (various references) hosan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stocking": stockinged, stockings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "stocking": bluestocking, overstocking, restocking. (additional references) | |
Words containing "stocking": bluestockings. (additional references) | |
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"Stocking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stoaking, stockinger, stokeing, stonking, stooking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stocking" (pronounced stÄ"king) |
| 6 | s t Ä" k i ng | restocking. |
| 4 | -Ä" k i ng | blocking, cocking, docking, flocking, Hocking, knocking, locking, mocking, rocking, shocking, socking, undocking, unlocking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-k-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: costing, gnostic, socking, stoking. | |
-2 letters: coigns, coking, cosign, coting, incogs, ingots, stingo, stinko, tigons, tocsin, toking, tonics, tsking. | |
-3 letters: cions, coign, coins, conks, ginks, icons, ikons, incog, ingot, kings, kinos, knits, knots, nicks, nocks, oinks, ontic, scion, sicko, skint, snick, sonic, stick, sting, stink, stock, stoic, ticks, tigon, tings, tongs, tonic. | |
-4 letters: cigs, cion. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-k-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: socketing, stockings. | |
+2 letters: restocking, stockading, stockinged. | |
+3 letters: outslicking, stockpiling, stocktaking. | |
+4 letters: backstopping, blockbusting, bluestocking, greenockites, locksmithing, overstocking, skyrocketing, stockbroking, stockjobbing, stocktakings. | |
+5 letters: blockbustings, bluestockings, cockfightings, laughingstock, locksmithings, lockstitching, stockbrokings, stockjobbings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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