Stemnoun
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
Stalknoun
The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
‘a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats;’; ‘the stalks of maize or hemp’;
Stemnoun
A branch of a family.
Stalknoun
The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
Stemnoun
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
Stalknoun
Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
Stemnoun
(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.
Stalknoun
(architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
Stemnoun
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’;
Stalknoun
One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
Stemnoun
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
Stalknoun
(zoology)
Stemnoun
(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.
Stalknoun
A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
Stemnoun
(slang) A person's leg.
Stalknoun
The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
Stemnoun
(slang) The penis.
Stalknoun
The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
Stemnoun
(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
Stalknoun
(metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Stemnoun
(music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
Stalknoun
A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
Stemnoun
(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
Stalknoun
The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
Stemnoun
Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
Stalknoun
A haughty style of walking.
Stemnoun
(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
Stalkverb
(transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
Stemnoun
(slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
Stalkverb
(transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp
‘My ex-girlfriend is stalking me.’;
Stemnoun
(chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism
Stalkverb
(intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
Stemnoun
alternative form of STEM
Stalkverb
(intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
Stemverb
To remove the stem from.
‘to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves’;
Stalkverb
(intransitive) To walk haughtily.
Stemverb
To be caused or derived; to originate.
‘The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.’;
Stalknoun
The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
Stemverb
To descend in a family line.
Stalknoun
That which resembles the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
Stemverb
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
Stalknoun
An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
Stemverb
(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
Stalknoun
One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
‘To climb by the rungs and the stalks.’;
Stemverb
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Stalknoun
A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
Stemverb
(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
‘to stem a tide’;
Stalknoun
An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Stemverb
(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.
Stalknoun
A high, proud, stately step or walk.
‘Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.’; ‘The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped.’;
Stemverb
To gleam.
‘His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron].’;
Stalknoun
The act or process of stalking.
‘When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.’;
Stemverb
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.
Stalkverb
To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; - sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
‘Into the chamber he stalked him full still.’; ‘[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend,Pressing to be employed.’;
Stemverb
To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
Stalkverb
To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
‘The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . "I must stalk," said he.’; ‘One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.’;
Stemverb
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.’;
Stalkverb
To walk with high and proud steps; - usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
‘With manly mien he stalked along the ground.’; ‘Then stalking through the deep,He fords the ocean.’; ‘I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.’;
Stemverb
To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
‘Stemming nightly toward the pole.’;
Stalkverb
To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
‘As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.’;
Stemnoun
A gleam of light; flame.
Stalkverb
To follow (a person) persistently, with or without attempts to evade detection; as, the paparazzi stalk celebrities to get candid photographs; obsessed fans may stalk their favorite movie stars.
Stemnoun
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.’;
Stalknoun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Stemnoun
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.
Stalknoun
a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
Stemnoun
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
‘While I do pray, learn here thy stemAnd true descent.’;
Stalknoun
a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush
Stemnoun
A branch of a family.
‘This is a stemOf that victorious stock.’;
Stalknoun
the act of following prey stealthily
Stemnoun
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.
Stalknoun
a stiff or threatening gait
Stemnoun
Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
‘Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.’;
Stalkverb
walk stiffly
Stemnoun
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.
Stalkverb
follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;
‘her ex-boyfriend stalked her’; ‘the ghost of her mother haunted her’;
Stemnoun
That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
Stalkverb
go through (an area) in search of prey;
‘stalk the woods for deer’;
Stemnoun
The entire central axis of a feather.
Stemnoun
The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
Stemnoun
The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
Stemnoun
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
‘thematic vowels are part of the stem’;
Stemnoun
a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
Stemnoun
cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
Stemnoun
the tube of a tobacco pipe
Stemnoun
front part of a vessel or aircraft;
‘he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line’;
Stemnoun
a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
Stemverb
grow out of, have roots in, originate in;
‘The increase in the national debt stems from the last war’;
Stemverb
cause to point inward;
‘stem your skis’;
Stemverb
stop the flow of a liquid;
‘staunch the blood flow’; ‘them the tide’;
Stemverb
remove the stem from;
‘for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed’;
