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STEM
bow, fore, prow, stem
(noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft; “he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line”
shank, stem
(noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
stem
(noun) the tube of a tobacco pipe
root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
stalk, stem
(noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
stem
(verb) remove the stem from; “for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed”
stem, stanch, staunch, halt
(verb) stop the flow of a liquid; “staunch the blood flow”; “stem the tide”
stem
(verb) grow out of, have roots in, originate in; “The increase in the national debt stems from the last war”
stem
(verb) cause to point inward; “stem your skis”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
STEM (countable and uncountable, plural STEMs)
(countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope.
(uncountable) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
Anagrams
• EMTs, Mets, TEMs, mets
Etymology 1
Noun
stem (plural stems)
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
A branch of a family.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
(botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
(linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
(slang) A person's leg.
(slang) The penis.
(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
(music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
(music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
(slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
(chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism
Synonyms
• (music): tail; virgula (obsolete)
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple present stems, present participle stemming, simple past and past participle stemmed)
To remove the stem from.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To descend in a family line.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Synonyms
• (to originate, stem from): to be due to, to arise from
Etymology 2
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple present stems, present participle stemming, simple past and past participle stemmed)
(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
(skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
Synonyms
• See also hinder
Etymology 3
Noun
stem (plural stems)
Alternative form of steem
Etymology 4
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
Noun
stem (plural stems)
Alternative form of STEM
Anagrams
• EMTs, Mets, TEMs, mets
Proper noun
Stem (plural Stems)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stem is the 17056th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1665 individuals. Stem is most common among White (93.69%) individuals.
Anagrams
• EMTs, Mets, TEMs, mets
Source: Wiktionary
Stem, Steem, v. i.
Definition: To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.
Stem, Steem, n.
Definition: A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]
Stem, n. Etym: [AS. stemn, stefn, stæfn; akin to OS. stamn the stem of a ship, D. stam stem, steven stem of a ship, G. stamm stem, steven stem of a ship, Icel. stafn, stamn, stem of a ship, stofn, stomn, stem, Sw. stam a tree trunk, Dan. stamme. Cf. Staff, Stand.]
1. The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top. After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. Sir W. Raleigh. The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain. Dryden.
2. A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. "All that are of noble stem." Milton. While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent. Herbert.
4. A branch of a family. This is a stem Of that victorious stock. Shak.
5. (Naut.)
Definition: A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
6. Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout. Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years. Fuller.
7. Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
8. (Bot.)
Definition: That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
9. (Zoöl.) (a) The entire central axis of a feather. (b) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
10. (Mus.)
Definition: The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
11. (Gram.)
Definition: The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base. From stem to stern (Naut.), from one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length.
– Stem leaf (Bot.), a leaf growing from the stem of a plant, as contrasted with a basal or radical leaf.
Stem, v. t.
1. To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
2. To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
Stem, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stemmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stemming.] Etym: [Either from stem, n., or akin to stammer; cf. G. stemmen to press against.]
Definition: To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current. "An argosy to stem the waves." Shak. [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts. Denham. Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. Pope.
Stem, v. i.
Definition: To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. Stemming nightly toward the pole. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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