Stem,

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stem \Stem\, Steem \Steem\, n.
     A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Stem \Stem\ (st[e^]m), n. [AS. stemn, stefn, staefn; 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.
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              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.
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              The lowering spring, with lavish rain,
              Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     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.
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     3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of
        progenitors. "All that are of noble stem." --Milton.
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              While I do pray, learn here thy stem
              And true descent.                     --Herbert.
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     4. A branch of a family.
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              This is a stem
              Of that victorious stock.             --Shak.
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     5. (Naut.) 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.
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     6. Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
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              Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
                                                    --Fuller.
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     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.
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     8. (Bot.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or
        rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly
        subterranean.
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     9. (Zool.)
        (a) The entire central axis of a feather.
        (b) The basal portion of the body of one of the
            Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
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     10. (Mus.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of
         a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
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     11. (Gram.) The part of an inflected word which remains
         unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a
         given inflection; theme; base.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stem \Stem\, Steem \Steem\, v. i.
     To gleam. [Obs.]
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           His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . .
           [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron].
                                                    --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stem \Stem\, v. i.
     To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a
     current.
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           Stemming nightly toward the pole.        --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stem \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.
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     2. To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stem \Stem\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stemmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Stemming}.] [Either from stem, n., or akin to stammer; cf.
     G. stemmen to press against.]
     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.
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           [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
                                                    --Denham.
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           Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stem
       n 1: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are
            removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: {root},
             {root word}, {base}, {theme}, {radical}]
       2: a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or
          fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: {stalk}]
       3: cylinder forming a long narrow part of something [syn: {shank}]
       4: the tube of a tobacco pipe
       5: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of
          the boat toward the finish line" [syn: {bow}, {fore}, {prow}]
       6: a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward
          and the other ski is brought parallel to it [syn: {stem
          turn}]
       v 1: grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in
            the national debt stems from the last war"
       2: cause to point inward; "stem your skis"
       3: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them
          the tide" [syn: {stanch}, {staunch}, {halt}]
       4: remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language
          processing, the words must be stemmed"
       [also: {stemming}, {stemmed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  467 Moby Thesaurus words for "stem":
     IC analysis, Maypole, V, accidence, accrue from, adjutage, advance,
     affiliation, affix, affixation, affront, allomorph, animal kingdom,
     ankle, antagonize, anthrophore, apparentation, arise, arise from,
     arrest, ascender, axis, back, baluster, balustrade, banister, bar,
     base, bastard type, battle, bayonet legs, be contingent on,
     be due to, beak, beard, beat against, beat up against, beginning,
     belly, bevel, bifurcate, birth, black letter, block, blood,
     bloodline, body, bole, bound morpheme, bow, bowlegs, bows,
     bowsprit, brake, branch, branch out, brave, breast,
     breast the wave, breed, bring before, bring forward, bring to,
     bring up, bring up short, brood, buck, bud from, buffet,
     buffet the waves, calf, cane, cap, capital, carpophore, caryatid,
     case, catheter, caudex, caulicle, caulis, challenge, check,
     checkmate, clan, class, close with, cnemis, colonnade, column,
     combat, come, come along, come from, come on, come out of,
     commencement, common ancestry, compete with, conception, confront,
     confront with, conjugation, consanguinity, contend against,
     contest, control, counter, cover ground, crotch, crutch, culm,
     curb, cut short, cutting, dado, dam, dare, deadlock, declension,
     defy, delta, deme, depend on, derivation, derive, derive from,
     descend, descend from, descender, descent, develop, die,
     difference of form, diminish, direct line, distaff side,
     divaricate, drainpipe, draw rein, drumstick, efflux tube, em,
     emanate, emanate from, emerge from, en, enclitic, encounter,
     ensue from, envisage, extraction, face, face with, family, fan,
     fat-faced type, feet, female line, fight, fight against,
     figurehead, filiation, fire hose, flagstaff, flow, flow from,
     flue pipe, folk, follow from, font, footstalk, forecastle,
     foredeck, foreleg, forepeak, fork, formative, free form, freeze,
     front, funicule, funiculus, funnel, furcate, furcula, furculum,
     gain ground, gamb, gambrel, garden hose, gas pipe, gather head,
     gather way, generate, genesis, gens, germinate from, get ahead,
     get along, gigot, go, go ahead, go along, go fast, go forward,
     go on, grapple with, grass roots, groin, groove, grow, grow from,
     grow out of, halt, ham, hang on, haulm, head, hind leg, hinge on,
     hock, hose, hosepipe, house, immediate constituent analysis,
     inception, infix, infixation, inflection, inguen, issue,
     issue from, italic, jack, jamb, jib boom, join battle with, kind,
     knee, labor against, lay before, leafstalk, leg, lessen, letter,
     ligature, limb, line, line of descent, lineage, logotype,
     lower case, majuscule, make good time, make head against,
     make progress, make progress against, make strides, make up leeway,
     male line, matriclan, meet, meet squarely, militate against,
     minuscule, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics,
     morphology, morphophonemics, move, move forward, nation,
     newel-post, nick, nipple, nose, offer resistance, offshoot, order,
     organ pipe, origin, original, originate, originate in, origination,
     paradigm, pass along, pass on, patriclan, pedestal, pedicel,
     peduncle, people, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, phratry, phyle,
     phylum, pi, pica, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pipe,
     pipeline, pipette, piping, place before, plant kingdom, plinth,
     podite, point, pole, popliteal space, post, prefix, prefixation,
     present to, prevail over, print, proceed, proceed from, proclitic,
     progress, prong, prore, provenience, prow, pull up, put it to,
     put paid to, queen-post, quell, race, radical, radix, ramification,
     ramify, reduce, reed, reed pipe, reluct, reluctate, resist, result,
     retard, rise, rival, rod, roll, roman, root, rostrum, sans serif,
     scape, scissor-legs, script, seed, seedstalk, sept, set before,
     shaft, shank, shin, shoot, shoulder, siamese, siamese connection,
     side, siphon, slow, small cap, small capital, snorkel, socle,
     soil pipe, source, spear, spear side, species, spindle side, spire,
     spring, spring from, sprout, sprout from, staff, stalemate, stalk,
     stall, stamp, stanch, stanchion, stand, standard, standpipe,
     staunch, stay, steam pipe, stem from, stem the tide, stems,
     step forward, stick, stipe, stirps, stock, stop, stop cold,
     stop dead, stop short, strain, straw, strive against,
     struggle against, stumps, subbase, succession, suffix, suffixation,
     suppress, surbase, sword side, take on, tap, taproot, tarsus,
     theme, tigella, tongue, totem, totem pole, travel, tribe, trident,
     trifurcate, trotters, trunk, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule,
     tubulet, tubulure, turn on, type, type body, type class, type lice,
     typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case, upright,
     vie with, waste pipe, water pipe, wishbone, withstand,
     word-formation
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Stem, NC (town, FIPS 64940)
    Location: 36.19981 N, 78.72323 W
    Population (1990): 249 (111 housing units)
    Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 27581

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Stem, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
     Population (2000):    229
     Housing Units (2000): 102
     Land area (2000):     0.936489 sq. miles (2.425495 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.001160 sq. miles (0.003004 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.937649 sq. miles (2.428499 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            64940
     Located within:       North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
     Location:             36.200527 N, 78.723605 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     27581
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Stem, NC
      Stem