stocking
A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or…A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
» Whose is this pair of stockings?
Wem gehört dieses Paar Strümpfe?
Чья эта пара чулок?
Meaning
4 sensesA soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
a pair of stockings
Strumpf
чуло́кčulók
панчо́хаpančóxa
A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.
- the activity of supplying a stock of something
- close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
Examples
50 sentencesWhose is this pair of stockings?
ruЧья эта пара чулок? — fjay69
deWem gehört dieses Paar Strümpfe? — Miyako
She wore neither shoes nor stockings.
deSie trug weder Schuhe noch Strümpfe. — al_ex_an_der
She is wearing stockings right now.
Don't forget to put on stockings.
ruНе забудь надеть чулки. — odexed
In winter, I wear warm stockings.
ruЗимой я ношу теплые чулки. — nina99nv
deIm Winter trage ich warme Strümpfe. — Vortarulo
Translations
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Origin
From stock (“cover with material”) + -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, nowFrom stock (“cover with material”) + -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.
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