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单词 superstock
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superstockn.

Brit. /ˈsuːpəstɒk/, /ˈsjuːpəstɒk/, U.S. /ˈsupərˌstɑk/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: super- prefix, stock n.1
Etymology: < super- prefix + stock n.1
1. = overstock n. 2. rare.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store > in excess of need
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mountain1969
1873 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 23 Dec. 3/5 Last winter the mills ran full time in the expectation of a large spring trade, but their expectations were not realised, and the large super-stock of which we have spoken was the result.
1930 Rotarian Feb. 12/3 John Q. Hardup, who is worried over unloading a super-stock of neckties.
1946 Boeing Mag. Dec. 6/3 It is prohibitively expensive to stock an excessive number of aircraft parts. Then there is another quickie solution: let the manufacturer keep a super-stock of parts.
2. Originally and chiefly U.S. An (extensively) modified car, motorcycle, or other vehicle; spec. (in later use) a stock car in a racing class subject to fewer restrictions regarding modification than normal stock cars; the class to which such vehicles belong. Cf. stock n.1 53c. Frequently attributive.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > racing car based on ordinary model
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1919 Motorcycling & Bicycling 17 Sept. 27/1 Not one of us would get any of the super stocks—we'll call 'em that for want of a better name—we would straddle a real standard stock motorcycle.
1963 Pop. Sci. Dec. 198/2 Super Stocks are the top class in the stock-car division. Usually current models, they have a bigger horsepower-to-weight ratio than the other stockers.
1971 Pop. Mech. Jan. s26 Theoretically you can drive Super Stocks on the street, but it's not often done.
1998 Spokesman Rev. (Spokane, Washington) (Nexis) 21 May c6 Defending modified champ Monte Zema Jr. tries to become a two-time race winner, as does superstock driver Willie Miller.
1999 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 2 May c14 The SST120 boats are 16-footers powered by 120 horsepower stock Mercury engines, modified with a racing lower unit, thus the ‘superstock’ designation.
2012 Evening Standard (Palmerston North, N.Z.) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 1 The stockcar teams event was one of the biggest on the local racing calender, with only the superstock teams championship event in February bigger.
3. Linguistics. A group of language families believed to have developed from a single common ancestor; = superfamily n. 2. Cf. stock n.1 3d.
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1928 Amer. Anthropologist 30 580 The Sinitic and the Tibeto-Burman are the two great branches of the Tibeto-Chinese superstock.
1960 Current Anthropol. 1 28/1 The glottochronologic conclusion that the time depth of Salishan is greater than that of any other Powell stock so far tested, a depth like that within ‘super-stocks’ or phyla such as Penutian, Hokanoid, and Huave-Mayan.
1990 T. Kaufman in D. L. Payne Amazonian Linguistics 34 These languages are probably too closely related to be considered as constituting a superstock.
2007 J. A. Eshleman & D. G. Smith in T. L. Jones & K. A. Klar Calif. Prehist. xix. 296/2 The Chumash languages were once considered part of the larger Hokan stock or superstock that included Yuman speakers living south of the Takic.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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