Definitions from Wiktionary (STEM)
▸ noun: The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
▸ noun: A branch of a family.
▸ noun: (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
▸ noun: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (slang) A person's leg.
▸ noun: (slang) The penis.
▸ noun: (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
▸ noun: (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
▸ noun: (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
▸ noun: (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
▸ noun: (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
▸ noun: (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
▸ noun: (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
▸ noun: (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
▸ verb: To remove the stem from.
▸ verb: To be caused or derived; to originate.
▸ verb: To descend in a family line.
▸ verb: To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
▸ verb: To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
▸ verb: (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: In rock climbing, to use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Alternative form of steem [(obsolete) A gleam of light; a flame.]
▸ noun: Alternative form of STEM
▸ noun: Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”) [A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.]
▸ noun: (countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope. [(physics) An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms.]
▸ noun: (uncountable) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. [(countable) A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.]
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▸ noun: The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
▸ noun: A branch of a family.
▸ noun: (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
▸ noun: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (slang) A person's leg.
▸ noun: (slang) The penis.
▸ noun: (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
▸ noun: (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
▸ noun: (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
▸ noun: (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
▸ noun: (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
▸ noun: (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
▸ noun: (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
▸ noun: (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
▸ verb: To remove the stem from.
▸ verb: To be caused or derived; to originate.
▸ verb: To descend in a family line.
▸ verb: To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
▸ verb: To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
▸ verb: (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: In rock climbing, to use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Alternative form of steem [(obsolete) A gleam of light; a flame.]
▸ noun: Alternative form of STEM
▸ noun: Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”) [A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.]
▸ noun: (countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope. [(physics) An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms.]
▸ noun: (uncountable) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. [(countable) A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.]
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