STEMS
Noun
STEMs
plural of STEM: scanning transmission electron microscopes
Noun
stems
plural of stem
Verb
stems
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stem
Proper noun
Stems
plural of Stem
Source: Wiktionary
STEM
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