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Stem
Stem Stem, Steem Steem, v. i.
To gleam. [Obs.]
His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And]
stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. --Chaucer.
Stem
Stem Stem, v. i.
To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a
current.
Stemming nightly toward the pole. --Milton.
Stem
Stem Stem, Steem Steem, n.
A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]
StemStem Stem, n. [AS. stemn, stefn, st[ae]fn; 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.
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.
The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down
the slender stem and breaded grain. --Dryden.
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.
3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of
progenitors. ``All that are of noble stem.' --Milton.
While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true
descent. --Herbert.
4. A branch of a family.
This is a stem Of that victorious stock. --Shak.
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.
6. Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
--Fuller.
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.
8. (Bot.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or
rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly
subterranean.
9. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The entire central axis of a feather.
(b) The basal portion of the body of one of the
Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
10. (Mus.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of
a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
11. (Gram.) The part of an inflected word which remains
unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a
given inflection; theme; base.
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. Stem
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.
2. To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
StemStem 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.
[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
--Denham.
Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. --Pope.
Meaning of STEMs from wikipedia
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downstream as one unit
Stem (music), a part of a
written musical note
Stem mixing and mastering, a
method of
mixing audio material The
Stems, an
Australian garage...
- The ten
Heavenly Stems (or
Celestial Stems) are a
system of
ordinals indigenous to
China and used
throughout East Asia,
first attested c. 1250 BCE during...
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subroutine that
stems word may be
called a
stemming program,
stemming algorithm, or
stemmer. A
stemmer for
English operating on the
stem cat
should identify...
- notation,
stems are the "thin,
vertical lines that are
directly connected to the [note] head."
Stems may
point up or down. Different-pointing
stems indicate...
- the
group disbanded in
October 2009, as of 2013 The
Stems are an
ongoing live concern. The
Stems formed in late 1983 when vocalist/guitarist Dom Mariani...
- Look up
stemmer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Stemmer may
refer to:
Helena Amélia
Oehler Stemmer (1927–2016)
Brazilian civil engineer and university...
- "
stems"; "shoots"
generally refers to new
fresh plant growth,
including both
stems and
other structures like
leaves or flowers. In most plants,
stems are...
- The
Stem Tetrapoda are a
cladistically defined group,
consisting of all
animals more
closely related to
extant four-legged
vertebrates than to
their closest...
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water and nutrients,
while the
stems are
modified to move
water and
nutrients to and from the
leaves and flowers.
Stems have
nodes with buds
where leaves...
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Stem succulents are
fleshy succulent columnar shaped plants which conduct photosynthesis mainly through their stems rather than
their leaves.
These plants...
