Stern vs. Strict — What's the Difference?

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship.

In mathematical writing, the term strict refers to the property of excluding equality and equivalence and often occurs in the context of inequality and monotonic functions. It is often attached to a technical term to indicate that the exclusive meaning of the term is to be understood.

Hard, harsh, or severe in manner or character

Demanding that rules concerning behaviour are obeyed and observed

Showing or expressing displeasure or disapproval; forbidding or harsh

(of a person) following rules or beliefs exactly

Firm or unyielding; uncompromising

Exact in correspondence or adherence to something; not allowing or admitting deviation or relaxation

Difficult to endure; oppressive

Rigorous in the imposition of discipline

(Nautical) The rear part of a ship or boat.

Conforming completely to established rule, principle, or condition

A rear part or section.

Requiring close observance or demanding in expectations

Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.

Carefully maintained or observed

Grim and forbidding in appearance.

Not loose or vague; exact or precise

(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.

(Botany) Stiff, narrow, and upright.

(figurative) The post of management or direction.

Strained; drawn close; tight.

The hinder part of anything.

Tense; not relaxed.

The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.

Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.

A bird, the black tern.

Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.

To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).

Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.

To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.

(botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

The black tern.

Severe in discipline.

The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.

Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.

The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.

Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.

Fig.: The post of management or direction.

Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.

The hinder part of anything.

Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.

The tail of an animal; - now used only of the tail of a dog.

Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.

Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.

Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.

Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

Upright, or straight and narrow; - said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

The rear part of a ship

(of rules) stringently enforced;

United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard;

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

Incapable of compromise or flexibility

Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect;

Not indulgent;

Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;

Unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment;

Severe and unremitting in making demands;

Severe and unremitting in making demands;