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.
- and the back, with the title stem stitched across.
- 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.
- Brain stem In the mad cow disease (BSE), the brain stem is affected.
- 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.
- "The term stem cell has so much currency around the world right now," says Tim Caulfield,
- When the brain stem is severely depleted of cells Ollie, (as may occur when certain individuals attempt deep thought), certain symptoms can appear.
- Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE), the brain stem is affected, in Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), the thalamus region, in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the cerebral cortex, while in KURU and
- Most of the troubles of Britain stem from the fact that the little island which is raising only 39% of its food does not have today the resources to provide 50,000,000 people with a decent standard of living.
- The Latin/Greek roots of the term stem from a few sources, but these familiar current usages may help: "Par" may be familiar from common current usage in golf: it evokes the concept of a norm, an average, or the expectation.
- Obama's comments about blue collar, small town America (of which I'm a member), which were poorly expressed but easily interpreted by anyone with a brain stem, is that the working poor in this country have little to rely on but faith and guns when the government that is supposed to protect and serve them does neither.
- Now, take a real flower of this tribe -- the common bind-weed from the hedge will do as well as any other -- and you will see that the means provided for it to run up any stick or stem it may meet, is a peculiar property it has, of twining its _stem_ round and round that of any other plant near it; and so strong is this necessity to assume