Stem

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

   “Where ye may all that are of noble ſtemm / Approach, and kiſs her ſacred veſtures hemm.”

2. isim A branch of a family.

   “This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.”

3. isim A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
4. isim An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

   “Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.”

5. isim The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.

   “After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.”

6. isim 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.

   “the stem of an apple or a cherry”

7. isim A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
8. isim 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.

   “The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, which correspond to some of the contracted forms in other languages […].”

9. isim A person's leg.

   “She was perfectly, fuckably proportioned everywhere else, both above and below her waist. A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive.”

10. isim The penis.

    “Waves of ecstasy roll through him as the moustachioed Casanova slides his stem in and out of the spaced-out chick.”

11. isim A vertical stroke of a letter.
12. isim A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
13. isim A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
14. isim The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
15. isim The front part of a vessel.

    “from stem to stern”

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

    “to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves”

21. fiil To be caused or derived; to originate.

    “The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.”

22. fiil To descend in a family line.
23. fiil To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

    “Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.”

24. fiil To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

    “As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder […]”

25. fiil To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
26. fiil To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).

    “to stem a tide”

27. fiil 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.
28. fiil To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
29. isim Alternative form of steem.
30. isim Alternative form of STEM.

    “Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields are a particular cause for concern because within them there are more pronounced stereotypes, extreme competitiveness and gender inequities regarding the abilities and competencies of black male and female students.”