stem

Senso (Inglese)

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. A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
16. A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
17. (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
18. A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.

stalk

trunk

tree-trunk

dam up

stem turn

enter upon

impugn

flow from

rid of

bourgeon

counter to

date from

flower stalk

force back

plug up

underlying stem

root of a word

physical body

podetium

human body

waste

skeletal frame

banana leaf

with the stalk

burgeon forth

human foot

invertebrate foot

pes

fore-body

truncated word

plant-stem

be due

ensue

extirpate

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/stɛm/

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”).