stem

Meanings

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
A branch of a family.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
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.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
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.
A person's leg.
The penis.
A vertical stroke of a letter.
A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
Alternative of steem
Alternative of STEM

To remove the stem from.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To descend in a family line.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
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.

From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ("to stand, stay").
From Middle English stemmen, a borrowing from Old Norse stemma (whence Danish stemme/stæmme), from Proto-Germanic *stammijaną. Cognate with German stemmen, Middle Dutch stemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.

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