stem

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
2. A branch of a family.
3. A branch of a family.
4. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
5. The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
6. 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.
7. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
8. 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.
9. (slang) A person's leg.
10. (slang) The penis.
11. A vertical stroke of a letter.
12. A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
13. A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
14. The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
15. (broadly) The front part of a vessel.
16. A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
17. A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
18. (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
19. (British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.

Verb

1. To remove the stem from.
2. To be caused or derived; to originate.
3. To descend in a family line.
4. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
5. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
6. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

Verb

1. (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
2. 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.
3. In rock climbing, to use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.

Concetti

gambo

stelo

tronco

radice

derivare

picciolo

fusto

discendere

frenare

arginare

ruota di prua

arrestare

asta

ceppo

fermare

🛑

gamba

🦵

opprimere

pianta

🌱

ritenere

peduncolo

dritto di prua

prua

radicale

germoglio

radice della parola

sbarrare

sollevare

tema

condotto

vegetale

comprimere

culmo

fermarsi

coda

albero

🌳

cannuccia

prora

🙇

provenire

staminale

barra

tagliamare

legno

🪵

nascere

caule

palo

pezzo di legno

Opposto di

stern, aft, poop

sinonimi

stalk

trunk

shaft

root

stipe

derive

originate

arise

tree-trunk

base

bow

🙇

check

block

stock

staunch

shank

brake

halt

stanch

bar

prow

spring

body

radical

grow

axis

obstruct

tree trunk

leaf

tree

🌳

leg

🦵

stub

jam

inhibit

theme

root word

graft

fore

result

restrain

axle

repress

scape

dam

curb

bole

plant

🌱

hold back

accrue

peduncle

Traduzioni

tige

Stiel

racine

stengel

radical

steel

stam

tallo

caule

Stamm

raíz

halm

Schaft

étrave

Wortstamm

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/stɛm/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: stem

Ereditato da inglese antico: stemn

Ereditato da inglese medio: stemmen

Affine danese: stemme

Affine tedesco: stemmen

Affine olandese medio: stemmen

In summary

From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn, from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”).