stem
IPA: stˈɛm
noun
- 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.
- (cycling) 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 Britain) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
- A surname.
- Alternative form of steem [(obsolete) A gleam of light; a flame.]
- Alternative form of STEM
- (countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope. [(physics) An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms.]
- (uncountable) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. [(countable) A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.]
verb
- 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.
- (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.
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Examples of "stem" in Sentences
- Inside the stem is the pith of the plant.
- Papyrus is made from the stem of the plant.
- The roots and the stem being stout and strong.
- A sprig is a single stem snipped from the plant.
- The males cling to plant stems during the night.
- The caterpillar bores into the stem of the host plant.
- A petiole is the stalk that joins the leaf blade to the plant stem.
- The cocoon is pale brown and attached to the stem of the host plant.
- The papyrus stem hieroglyph shows a single stalk and umbel of the plant.
- Leaves and stems are covered with hairs and the plant is sticky to the touch.
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