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stem
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?m, IPA(key): /st?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz.
Noun
stem (plural stems)
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- 1633, George Herbert, Church Monuments
- While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
- 1633, George Herbert, Church Monuments
- A branch of a family.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- 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.
- 1736, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World in Five Books
- 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.
- 1736, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World in Five Books
- 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.
- 2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze
- She was perfectly, fuckably proportioned everywhere else, both above and below her waist. A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive.
- 2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze
- (slang) The penis.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- Synonyms: tail, (obsolete) virgula
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
References
“stem” in the Collins English Dictionary
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.
- 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 […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Synonyms
- (to originate, stem from): to be due to, to arise from
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English stemmen, a borrowing from Old Norse stemma (“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danish stemme/stæmme (“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic *stammijan?. Cognate with German stemmen, Middle Dutch stemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
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).
- to stem a tide
- 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy
- [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
- (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 Thesaurus:hinder
Translations
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
- 2015 May 29th, BBC News, How do US black students perform at school?
- Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields are a particular cause for concern because within them there are more pronounced stereotypes, extreme competitiveness and gender inequities regarding the abilities and competencies of black male and female students.
- 2015 May 29th, BBC News, How do US black students perform at school?
Further reading
- stem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- stem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stem”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- EMTs, Mets, Smet, TEMs, mets
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?m/
Etymology 1
From Dutch stem, from Middle Dutch stemme, from Old Dutch *stemma, from Proto-Germanic *stebn?, *stamnij?.
Noun
stem (plural stemme)
- vote
- voice
Etymology 2
From Dutch stemmen.
Verb
stem (present stem, present participle stemmende, past participle gestem)
- to vote
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stemme, from Old Dutch *stemma, from Proto-Germanic *stebn?, *stamnij?. Under influence of Latin vox (“voice, word”), it acquired the now obsolete sense of “word”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?m/
- Hyphenation: stem
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
stem f (plural stemmen, diminutive stemmetje n)
- voice, sound made by the mouth using airflow
- the ability to speak
- vote
- (obsolete) word
- (phonetics) voice, property formed by vibration of the vocal cords
Derived terms
- foertstem
- proteststem
Descendants
- Afrikaans: stem
- ? Indonesian: setem
- ? Sranan Tongo: sten
Verb
stem
- first-person singular present indicative of stemmen
- imperative of stemmen
Anagrams
- mest, mets
Latin
Verb
stem
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of st?
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
stem
- imperative of stemme
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
stem
- imperative of stemme
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English stamp.
Noun
stem
- stamp
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cormophyte
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”) +? -phyte; see also corm (“swollen underground stem”), Latin cormus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??m??fa?t/
Noun
cormophyte (plural cormophytes)
- (now informal, botany) Any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte
- 1940, Edgar Nelson Transeau, Homer Cleveland Sampson, Lewis Hanford Tiffany, Textbook of botany, Part 1, page 156,
- Very careful developmental or anatomical investigation may be required to show that the variously-constructed organs of many cormophytes are derived by the metamorphosis of the three primary organs, root, stem, and leaf, and to ascertain with which of these any particular structure is really homologous.
- 2008, Giulia Caneva, Maria Pia Nugari, M. P. Nugari, O. Salvadori (editors), Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage: Biodeterioration and Conservation, page 91,
- The morphology of cormophytes exhibits considerable variations in size, appearance of the various parts, and duration of the life cycle.
- 1940, Edgar Nelson Transeau, Homer Cleveland Sampson, Lewis Hanford Tiffany, Textbook of botany, Part 1, page 156,
Coordinate terms
- thallophyte
Derived terms
- cormophytic
Anagrams
- chromotype, ectomorphy
cormophyte From the web:
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- what is non cormophytes
- what does cormophyta mean
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