stalk

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
2. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
3. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
4. An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
5. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
6. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
7. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
8. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
9. An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
10. Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

1. To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
2. To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
3. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
4. To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.

Verb

To walk haughtily.

Sinónimos

stem

trunk

stipe

creep

still hunt

stalking

stubble

peduncle

sneak

lie in wait

straw

follow

husk

haulm

tail

haunt

chaff

caudex

shaft

shuck

pedicel

steal

leg

🦵

petiole

tree trunk

rod

pedicle

scape

stump

sneak up on

shank

line

brush

trail

stub

ear of corn

pace

approach stealthily

axis

persecute

spy on

stride

angry walk

chase

strut

helve

prowl

pursue

queue

waylay

base

spy

starting point

stick

stock

swagger

sway

thigh

toddle

totter

trace

track

tracking

twig

upright

waddle

wiggle

wobble

creep up on

go stealthily

rice plant

sneak up

sneak up to

still-hunt

take by surprise

hunt a spy

put a tail on someone

podetium

trabecula

walk stealthily

stem of a flower

stealthy pursuit

walk stiffly

human foot

invertebrate foot

pes

die shank

upright bar

punch shank

lie in ambush wait

actuate

leafstem

ambuscade

ambush

arm

blade

body

bole

bough

bushwhack

cane

caulis

coconut

🥥

column

corn

🌽

creep up

culm

cutting

dog

🐕

drive

drive on

foot

🦶

footstalk

ft

graft

haft

halm

harass

harrow

head

hunt down

impel

kickstand

lurk

mast

oppress

penis

pile

pillar

plume

pole

post

propel

prosecute

quickset

quill

reed

shirk

shoo

shoot

sleuth

slip

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/stɔːk/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: stalke

Herdado de Old English: *stealc

Relativo a Old High German: *stelh

Relativo a dinamarqués: stilk

Relativo a sueco: stjälk

Relativo a islandés: stilkur

Relativo a Middle English: stale

Relativo a Old English: stalu

Relativo a Middle Low German: stal

Relativo a Old English: stela

Relativo a albanés: shtalkë

Relativo a galés: telm

Relativo a grego antigo: στειλειή

Relativo a Classical Armenian: ստեղն

Herdado de Middle English: stalken

Herdado de Old English: *stealcian

Relativo a neerlandés: stelkeren

Relativo a dinamarqués: stalke

Relativo a noruegués: -

In summary

From Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *stealuc, from Proto-West Germanic *staluk, *stalik, from Proto-Germanic *stalukaz, *stalikaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *stalô, *staluz (“support, stem, stalk”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, stand; be stiff; stud, post, trunk, stake, stem, stalk”). Cognate with Old High German *stelh in wazzarstelh (“wagtail”), Danish stilk (“stalk, stem”), Swedish stjälk (“stalk, stem”), Icelandic stilkur (“stalk, stem”).
Related also to Middle English stale (“ladder upright, stalk”), Old English stalu (“wooden upright”), Middle Low German stal, stale (“chair leg”), Old English stela (“stalk”), Dutch steel (“stalk”), German Stiel (“stalk”), Albanian shtalkë (“crossbeam, board used as a door hinge”), Welsh telm (“frond”), Ancient Greek στειλειή (steileiḗ, “beam”), Old Armenian ստեղն (stełn, “trunk, stalk”).