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Branches vs. Stem — What's the Difference?

Branches vs. Stem — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Branches and Stem

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Branches

A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree or shrub or from another secondary limb.

Stem

The main ascending part of a plant; a stalk or trunk.

Branches

A lateral division or subdivision of certain other plant parts, such as a root or flower cluster.

Stem

A slender stalk supporting or connecting another plant part, such as a leaf or flower.

Branches

A secondary outgrowth or subdivision of a main axis, such as the tine of a deer's antlers.
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Stem

A banana stalk bearing several bunches of bananas.

Branches

(Anatomy) An offshoot or a division of the main portion of a structure, especially that of a nerve, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel; a ramus.

Stem

The tube of a tobacco pipe.

Branches

An area of specialized skill or knowledge, especially academic or vocational, that is related to but separate from other areas
The judicial branch of government.
The branch of medicine called neurology.

Stem

The slender upright support of a wineglass or goblet.

Branches

A division of a business or other organization.

Stem

The small projecting shaft with an expanded crown by which a watch is wound.

Branches

A division of a family, categorized by descent from a particular ancestor.

Stem

The rounded rod in the center of certain locks about which the key fits and is turned.

Branches

(Linguistics) A subdivision of a family of languages, such as the Germanic branch of Indo-European.

Stem

The shaft of a feather or hair.

Branches

A tributary of a river.

Stem

The upright stroke of a typeface or letter.

Branches

Chiefly Southern US See creek. See Note at run.

Stem

(Music) The vertical line extending from the head of a note.

Branches

A divergent section of a river, especially near the mouth.

Stem

The main line of descent of a family.

Branches

(Mathematics) A part of a curve that is separated, as by discontinuities or extreme points.

Stem

(Linguistics) The main part of a word to which affixes are added.

Branches

A sequence of program instructions to which the normal sequence of instructions relinquishes control, depending on the value of certain variables.

Stem

(Nautical) The curved upright beam at the fore of a vessel into which the hull timbers are scarfed to form the prow.

Branches

The instructions executed as the result of such a passing of control.

Stem

The tubular glass structure mounting the filament or electrodes in an incandescent bulb or vacuum tube.

Branches

(Chemistry) A bifurcation in a linear chain of atoms, especially in an organic molecule where isomeric hydrocarbon groups can vary in the location and number of these bifurcations of the carbon chain.

Stem

To have or take origin or descent
Her success stems mostly from hard work.

Branches

To put forth a branch or branches; spread by dividing.

Stem

To remove the stem of
Stemmed the apples.

Branches

To come forth as a branch or subdivision; develop or diverge from
An unpaved road that branches from the main road.
A theory that branches from an older system of ideas.

Stem

To provide with a stem
Wine glasses that are stemmed.

Branches

(Computers) To relinquish control to another set of instructions or another routine as a result of the presence of a branch.

Stem

To make headway against (a tide or current, for example).

Branches

To separate (something) into branches.

Stem

To stop or stanch (a flow)
Stemmed the bleeding.

Branches

To embroider (something) with a design of foliage or flowers.

Stem

To restrain or stop
Wanted to stem the growth of government.

Branches

Plural of branch

Stem

To plug or tamp (a blast hole, for example).

Stem

(Sports) To turn (a ski, usually the uphill ski) by moving the heel outward.

Stem

To stem a ski or both skis, as in making a turn.

Stem

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Stem

A branch of a family.

Stem

An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Stem

(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.

Stem

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.
The stem of an apple or a cherry

Stem

A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.

Stem

(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.

Stem

(slang) A person's leg.

Stem

(slang) The penis.

Stem

(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.

Stem

(music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.

Stem

(music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.

Stem

(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.

Stem

(cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.

Stem

(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.

Stem

(slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.

Stem

A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.

Stem

Alternative form of STEM

Stem

A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.

Stem

To remove the stem from.
To stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves

Stem

To be caused or derived; to originate.
The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.

Stem

To descend in a family line.

Stem

To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

Stem

(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

Stem

To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

Stem

(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
To stem a tide

Stem

(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.

Stem

To gleam.
His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron].

Stem

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.

Stem

To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

Stem

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.
[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.

Stem

To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
Stemming nightly toward the pole.

Stem

A gleam of light; flame.

Stem

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.
The lowering spring, with lavish rain,Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain.

Stem

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.

Stem

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
While I do pray, learn here thy stemAnd true descent.

Stem

A branch of a family.
This is a stemOf that victorious stock.

Stem

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.

Stem

Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.

Stem

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.

Stem

That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.

Stem

The entire central axis of a feather.

Stem

The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.

Stem

The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.

Stem

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
Thematic vowels are part of the stem

Stem

A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

Stem

Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

Stem

The tube of a tobacco pipe

Stem

Front part of a vessel or aircraft;
He pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line

Stem

A turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

Stem

Grow out of, have roots in, originate in;
The increase in the national debt stems from the last war

Stem

Cause to point inward;
Stem your skis

Stem

Stop the flow of a liquid;
Staunch the blood flow
Them the tide

Stem

Remove the stem from;
For automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed

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