'Stem' definitions:
Definition of 'stem'
(from WordNet)
noun
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical]
noun
A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stalk, stem]
noun
Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something [syn: shank, stem]
noun
The tube of a tobacco pipe
noun
Front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem]
noun
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, stem]
verb
Grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
verb
Cause to point inward; "stem your skis"
verb
Stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt]
verb
Remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
Definition of 'Stem'
From: GCIDE
- Stem \Stem\, Steem \Steem\, v. i. To gleam. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Stem
Definition of 'Stem'
From: GCIDE
- Stem \Stem\, Steem \Steem\, n. A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stem'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. "All that are of noble stem." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A branch of a family. [1913 Webster]
- This is a stem Of that victorious stock. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout. [1913 Webster]
- Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Bot.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Mus.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 11. (Gram.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stem'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stem'
From: GCIDE
- Stem \Stem\, v. i. To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. [1913 Webster]
- Stemming nightly toward the pole. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stem'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stem'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- IC analysis,
- 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,
- Maypole,
- 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,
- V,
- vie with,
- waste pipe,
- water pipe,
- wishbone,
- withstand,
- word-formation
Stem, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
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.
Words containing 'Stem'
- Stemmed,
- Stemming,
- From stem to stern,
- Polyp stem,
- Stem leaf,
- Stem, NC,
- Valve stem,
- Voluble stem,
- blue stem,
- brain stem,
- onion stem,
- stem blight,
- stem canker,
- stem cell,
- stem ginger,
- stem lettuce,
- stem turn,
- stem vowel,
- stemming algorithm,
- Stem-clasping,
- Stem-winder,
- Stem-winding,
- brain-stem,
- cylindrical-stemmed,
- hematopoeitic stem cell,
- leafy-stemmed,
- multi-stemmed,
- short-stemmed,
- spiny-stemmed,
- stout-stemmed,
- thick-stemmed,
- weak-stemmed,
- wiry-stemmed,
- woody-stemmed,
- woolly-stemmed,
- black-stem spleenwort,
- black-stemmed spleenwort,
- crooked-stemmed aster,
- purple-stemmed aster,
- rough-stemmed goldenrod,
- stem-cell research,
- white-stemmed filaree,
- embryonic stem-cell research