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Definition of 'stem'Etymology 1
(etyl) stemn, .
Noun
( en-noun)
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
* Milton
- all that are of noble stem
* Herbert
- While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
A branch of a family.
* Shakespeare
- This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
* Fuller
- Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
(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.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
- 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 .
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.
- the stem of an apple or a cherry
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A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
(linguistic morphology) 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 [[declension|declensions derive from their stems.
(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
(music) A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.
(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
Verb
( stemm)
To remove the stem from.
- to stem''' cherries; to '''stem tobacco leaves
To be caused]] or [[derive|derived; to originate.
- The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
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.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
- As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Cognate with German stemmen, Dutch stemmen, stempen; compare (stammer).
Verb
( stemm)
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- to stem a tide
* Denham
- [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
* Alexander Pope
- Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.
(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
* (sense) to be due to, to arise from
* See also
Etymology 3
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