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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stem
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stem cell (=one that divides and repairs the body, and may be used in medical treatment)
▪ Stem cells may make life-saving treatment possible.
stem cell
stem...flow
▪ I tied a towel round his leg to try to stem the flow of blood.
stem...flow
▪ an attempt to stem the flow of refugees across the border
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
▪ Serpentine layering Climbers such as clematis, jasmine, wisteria and honeysuckle root wherever their long pliable stems touch the soil.
▪ They are borne on long, wiry stems.
▪ Description: The leaves are arranged in two rows on long, trailing stems.
▪ The long stems are thin and branched.
▪ They have very long, firm stems.
▪ The plant is very bushy, and with long stems grows tall.
▪ Description: Light or bright green, oval or oblong, small leaves which grow close together on long stems.
▪ It sends forth long, trailing stems with leaves up to the water surface, where they float.
main
▪ Its rigid main stem needs no support, even when loaded with flowers and pods.
▪ Prune lateral shoots of wisteria if not done already, by cutting back to four or five leaves from the main stems.
▪ A leader is a main or central stem that extends and grows along its own line of growth.
▪ Only occasionally does it become necessary to cut out main stems, such as when they become old, gnarled and barky.
▪ A well defined form According to my dictionary, a tree can be any perennial plant having a self-supporting woody main stem.
▪ Many branches are produced on the main stems.
▪ Multi-sprouting will induce more main stems which produce a larger number of small tubers.
single
▪ You can try anything from a single stem to a braided bunch with Antenna's new collection of flowery Monofibre extensions.
▪ These grow naturally as a single, vertical stem and need absolutely no pruning.
▪ These four varieties are ideal small garden plants, as they grow on a single stem and don't need pruning.
▪ Those grown as cordons are trained on a single stem tied to wires attached at an angle.
▪ A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along.
▪ A single stem planted on its own does not create a good effect.
▪ The standard rose is really a bush rose growing on a single stem.
slender
▪ A delicate looking plant with much branched slender stems and dainty powder blue flowers.
▪ The slender stems, like those of the crinoids are not preserved here.
▪ Dark green bristly foliage arranged in dense whorls around slender brittle stems.
▪ They are arranged on a slender, branching stem.
strong
▪ Records retrieved only under strong stems would not be given high weight.
▪ One could use rules of thumb about thresholds below which the search would be automatically repeated using strong stems.
■ NOUN
brain
▪ The Gateway itself is situated deep in the brain stem.
▪ The cerebellum, atop the brain stem, has many more, thanks to so many little granule cell neurons.
▪ The internal state of the organism is monitored by means of receptors, mostly situated in the brain stem.
▪ His head injury had damaged his brain stem.
▪ This input is fed to certain parts of the brain stem and filtered.
▪ There is another diffusely broadcasting group of neurons scattered along the centerline near the surface of the brain stem.
▪ For a diagnosis of brain stem death irremediable structural brain damage should be present.
▪ Two thumbtack-size patches of neurons located on the brain stem are particularly loaded with adenosine receptors.
cell
▪ As the cells proceed from the stem cell to the various mature blood cell types they divide many times.
▪ On this occasion it is stem cell research.
▪ Somewhere in the middle of the conflicting forces Bush must decide whether stem cell research should get federal funding.
▪ The stem cells at the heart of the matter are to be found in human embryos a few days old.
▪ Further studies are directed towards the understanding of the role which the stem cell control factor DIA/LIF plays in the normal embryo.
▪ However, removing the stem cells kills the embryo, and therefore has serious ethical implications.
▪ Replacement is dependent on the continued multiplication of immortal stem cells.
▪ All the cells in the blood come, remarkably, from just one special progenitor cell - the multipotential stem cell.
■ VERB
cut
▪ Once flowers are over, cut the faded stems back to ground level.
▪ Only occasionally does it become necessary to cut out main stems, such as when they become old, gnarled and barky.
▪ When established, cut its stems to ground level in winter.
▪ Use scissors to cut the carnation stem lengthwise into three.
grow
▪ At the cemetery, I noticed how each rose grew on a shark-infested stem.
▪ The eye grows out from the stem to become a bud.
▪ These four varieties are ideal small garden plants, as they grow on a single stem and don't need pruning.
▪ The leaf-stalks grow opposite from the stem.
▪ The points where the leaves grow on the stems are known as nodes.
▪ The standard rose is really a bush rose growing on a single stem.
remove
▪ Each time an affix is removed the remaining stem must be checked to determine whether it is a valid word.
▪ Just rinse off the zucchini and dry it. Remove the hard stem end and the tip.
▪ Cut the pepper in half lengthways and remove seeds and stem.
▪ Peel peppers and remove stems, seeds and veins.
▪ Remove the distance piece - the softer polystyrene block is easier to remove without damaging the stem than a harder wooden block.
▪ However, removing the stem cells kills the embryo, and therefore has serious ethical implications.
▪ Unearth them the following winter, remove all the rooted stems for transplanting and cut off any that have failed to root.
▪ Sort and clean the seeds, removing stems, casings and chaff manually, by sieving or blowing away the debris.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the plant continually produces new stalks through the year, so there always should be some new stems to pick.
▪ It looked like something pulled from the earth, a tuberous stem or fungus esteemed by gourmets.
▪ It produces small, fragrant flowers that cluster on older stems.
▪ The stem is thin and rooted.
▪ You can try anything from a single stem to a braided bunch with Antenna's new collection of flowery Monofibre extensions.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ But its theatrical power also stems from its vivid evocation of time and place.
▪ My next point also stems from this underlying tendency of the reforms to produce fragmentation and deregulation.
▪ The Griffiths inquiry stemmed also from broader concerns in the provision of welfare in the late twentieth century.
directly
▪ Two things stem directly from the location of a submarine eruption.
▪ We have seen that the principal intellectual characteristics of adolescence stem directly or indirectly from the development of formal structures.
▪ However, it is important to realise that these problems do not stem directly from the new Higher Still arrangements.
▪ Rural social geographers take this view very seriously, as it stems directly from the political economy background outlined in chapter 1.
▪ Some of the changes stemmed directly from the wartime period, others from the greater material prosperity of the 1920s.
largely
▪ This stems largely from a failure to embrace new work practices and is no part of the new deal.
▪ This lack of sensitivity to the wellsprings of quality largely stems from shopworn but doggedly persistent ideas on where to economize.
▪ This stemmed largely from a lack of political analysis and clarity in relation to nationalism and feminism on the part of Southern feminists.
▪ The changes stemmed largely from the generation gap.
mainly
▪ Ironically, the threat to rural post offices stems mainly from the Government's decision to automate pension and benefit payments.
▪ These changes stem mainly from three Acts of Parliament.
▪ I suggest that both the strength and the weakness of Moore's positive ethical views stem mainly from his method of isolation.
partly
▪ This small act of concealment had partly stemmed from the fact that she herself had never had money.
▪ The worries stem partly from a lack of confidence that their children will prosper unless provided with the best of opportunities.
▪ Its difficulties have partly stemmed from cuts in Medicaid, but also from political interference.
▪ That distinction is recent, stemming partly from Mahfouz's determination to make language match his theme.
▪ His initial reluctance stemmed partly from a statement he had made in November 1991 vowing never to accept the post.
▪ This stems partly from local resistance to change, and partly from the postwar approach to agricultural policy.
▪ It stems partly from a failure to understand fundamentalism as a modern political force right across the world.
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ Across a range of industries, major innovations are implemented in attempts to stem the decline in profits.
▪ But the networks have scrambled to keep them on the air for another year in an attempt to stem audience erosion.
▪ Opec is to increase production by 1.45m barrels a day in an attempt to stem rising prices.
▪ By the closing rounds he was reduced to throwing wild haymakers in a desperate attempt to stem the tide.
charge
▪ Reid was being held without bail on five counts of rape and several other charges stemming from the string of attacks.
▪ All the charges stem from Conoline's refusal to cooperate with an investigation into a botched Dec. 7 drug bust.
▪ Prosecutors said an additional broker, Christopher Avena of Harriman Group, already has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the investigation.
▪ He faces charges stemming from accusations made by several trainees.
decline
▪ Across a range of industries, major innovations are implemented in attempts to stem the decline in profits.
▪ The company this year announced a reorganization aimed at stemming the profit decline.
▪ What is the best way of stemming this decline or, even better, of regenerating the economy?
▪ In order to stem the decline, it was suggested that the trade must change its image and recruit younger drinkers.
▪ The government requested international assistance to support the balance of payments and to stem the decline in international reserves.
effort
▪ It has since closed 100 stores in an effort to stem losses.
fact
▪ This small act of concealment had partly stemmed from the fact that she herself had never had money.
▪ This stems from the fact that the introduction of international trade combines both countries into an integrated economy.
▪ Where the confusion seems to stem from is the fact that guitar music sounds an octave lower than concert pitch.
▪ The weakness of the Arab nations stems from the fact that they buy weapons instead of choosing to do their own research.
▪ Lipid asymmetries may stem from the fact that biological membranes need to have asymmetric protein distributions across the bilayer.
▪ Their unease about Microsoft's offer stems from the fact that a behavioural remedy is difficult to police.
failure
▪ This stems largely from a failure to embrace new work practices and is no part of the new deal.
▪ It stems partly from a failure to understand fundamentalism as a modern political force right across the world.
flood
▪ The General Manager is inside it, in a wetsuit, trying to stem the flood.
▪ Church had effectively stemmed the flood of artists.
▪ Then she dropped her face into her hands, unable to stem the flood of tears a second longer.
flow
▪ Sandbags were used to stem the flow but several corridors were soon under water.
▪ To stem the flow, he advocates strict trade protections, including high tariffs on imported goods.
▪ When was she going to stem the financial flow?
▪ The brigadier tried to stem the flow with a tourniquet.
▪ How can we stem the tidal flow of change?
▪ She stemmed the flow of tears that came, knowing they would sting his body.
▪ Rose stemmed the flow, encouraged the ebb, and he allowed it to be that way.
▪ After the game Kasparov said that Karpov had to play 24 ... d3 to stem the flow of the White attack.
government
▪ Through this conservative normativist theory Dicey attempted to stem the tide of government growth in a collectivist direction.
▪ The growth in such services will often stem from government legislation providing for higher standards as the following examples make clear.
growth
▪ These controversies stem from disagreements over growth and what kinds of jobs Marana should be attracting, observers say.
▪ But it failed to stem the growth of Modern Orthodoxy.
loss
▪ But nothing was to stem the loss of traffic to the road.
▪ He and the Chairman, Clive Labovitch, were able to stem the losses.
▪ The measure would have made it more difficult to sue companies for fraud stemming from stock losses.
▪ Efficient emergency treatment relies upon being able to stem the blood loss with a tourniquet around the foot.
▪ It has since closed 100 stores in an effort to stem losses.
part
▪ In part this difficulty may stem from the uncertain legal nature of the action for breach of confidence.
▪ In part, this stems from the creation of tech-prep programs during the early 1990s.
▪ In part, this stems from history.
power
▪ But its theatrical power also stems from its vivid evocation of time and place.
▪ Reputation is a base of power stemming from others who have a favorable opinion of your work and capabilities.
problem
▪ It also tries to say that women's problems stem from either their sexuality or the family.
▪ Part of the problem stems from real or imagined slights between their respective aides, Glenn Miller and Chris Limberis.
▪ Other problems stem from the ambiguities of language and the complex rules of pleading.
▪ Part of this problem stems from all the propaganda they bombard you with when you buy a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
▪ However, problems stemming from its lack of use in the preceding year became apparent later.
▪ He notes that employers identify problems stemming from inappropriate work attitudes or behaviors as the primary cause of poor job performance.
▪ Gerstner's biggest problem may stem from the sources of his success.
▪ All his problems stem from tension.
rise
▪ From this stemmed the rise in illegitimacy.
s
▪ Part of Malthus' s pessimism stemmed from the conviction that when population increased the price of labor would drop.
tide
▪ Through this conservative normativist theory Dicey attempted to stem the tide of government growth in a collectivist direction.
▪ Even the great Chicago fire of 1871 could not stem the tide.
▪ Barnes managed to stem the tide a little by giving Liverpool a genuine attacking outlet.
▪ This illustrates the type of practical public health action that could be taken to stem the tide of obesity.
▪ By the closing rounds he was reduced to throwing wild haymakers in a desperate attempt to stem the tide.
▪ Only one way to stem the tide for Ireland: take out Figo.
▪ Both the Senate and the administration seemed powerless to stem the tide of hysteria.
▪ But even visions of breastfeeding could not stem the tide this time.
■ VERB
seem
▪ New chairman Robert Corbett says most of the losses seem to stem from incompetent grain trading.
▪ But the implied unity of mankind seems to stem from indifference.
▪ Where the confusion seems to stem from is the fact that guitar music sounds an octave lower than concert pitch.
▪ No satisfactory explanation of this decline has been adduced, but it seems likely to have stemmed from changes in agricultural practice.
▪ Both the Senate and the administration seemed powerless to stem the tide of hysteria.
try
▪ The General Manager is inside it, in a wetsuit, trying to stem the flood.
▪ Busy on two phones at once trying to stem disaster, you had no time to turn and look.
▪ Nell clutched at her chest, trying to stem the rising swell of nausea.
▪ She had simply eaten one after another to try and stem the feelings of anxiety within her.
▪ Six passers-by tried to stem the blood with their fingers and thumbs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He used a rag to stem the bleeding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The exact date of its original building is disputed but it probably stems from the late fifth or early sixth century.
▪ The weakness of the Arab nations stems from the fact that they buy weapons instead of choosing to do their own research.
▪ Their recovery since then stems from winning several lucrative long-term Defence contracts.
▪ This small act of concealment had partly stemmed from the fact that she herself had never had money.
▪ Thomas' patronage stems from the many churches he built during his pilgrimages.
▪ Two things stem directly from the location of a submarine eruption.
▪ Working through this despair, which stemmed from early childhood, was a long and painful task.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stem

Stem \Stem\, v. t.

  1. To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.

  2. To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

Stem

Stem \Stem\, Steem \Steem\, v. i. To gleam. [Obs.]

His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron].
--Chaucer.

Stem

Stem \Stem\, Steem \Steem\, n. A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]

Stem

Stem \Stem\ (st[e^]m), n. [AS. stemn, stefn, st[ae]fn; akin to OS. stamn the stem of a ship, D. stam stem, steven stem of a ship, G. stamm stem, steven stem of a ship, Icel. stafn, stamn, stem of a ship, stofn, stomn, stem, Sw. stam a tree trunk, Dan. stamme. Cf. Staff, Stand.]

  1. The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.

    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.
    --Sir W. Raleigh.

    The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain.
    --Dryden.

  2. A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

  3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. ``All that are of noble stem.''
    --Milton.

    While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent.
    --Herbert.

  4. A branch of a family.

    This is a stem Of that victorious stock.
    --Shak.

  5. (Naut.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.

  6. Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

    Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
    --Fuller.

  7. Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.

  8. (Bot.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.

  9. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. The entire central axis of a feather.

    2. The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.

  10. (Mus.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.

  11. (Gram.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.

    From stem to stern (Naut.), from one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length.

    Stem leaf (Bot.), a leaf growing from the stem of a plant, as contrasted with a basal or radical leaf.

Stem

Stem \Stem\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stemmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stemming.] [Either from stem, n., or akin to stammer; cf. G. stemmen to press against.] To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current. ``An argosy to stem the waves.''
--Shak.

[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
--Denham.

Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.
--Pope.

Stem

Stem \Stem\, v. i. To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

Stemming nightly toward the pole.
--Milton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stem

Old English stemn, stefn "stem of a plant, trunk of a tree," also "either end-post of a ship," from Proto-Germanic *stamniz (cognates: Old Saxon stamm, Old Norse stafn "stem of a ship;" Danish stamme, Swedish stam "trunk of a tree;" Old High German stam, German Stamm), from suffixed form of PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).\n

\nMeaning "support of a wineglass" is from 1835. Meaning "unchanging part of a word" is from 1830. Stems slang for "legs" is from 1860. The nautical sense is preserved in the phrase stem to stern "along the full length" (of a ship), attested from 1620s. Stem cell attested by 1885.

stem

"make headway by sailing, head in a certain course," late 14c., literally "to push the stem through," from stem (n.) in the "ship post" sense (here the post at the prow of the ship). Related: Stemmed; stemming.

stem

"to hold back," early 14c., from a Scandinavian source, such as Old Norse stemma "to stop, dam up; be stopped, abate," from Proto-Germanic *stamjan (cognates: Swedish stämma, Old Saxon stemmian, Middle Dutch stemon, German stemmen "stop, resist, oppose"), from PIE root *stem- "to strike against something" (cognates: Lithuanian stumiu "thrust, push"). Not connected to stem (n.). Related: Stemmed; stemming. Phrase to stem the tide is literally "to hold back the tide," but often is confused with stem (v.2) "make headway against."\n

\nVerbal phrase stems from (1932, American English), perhaps is from stem (v.) in the sense "to rise, mount up, have origin in" (1570s), or is influenced by or translates German stammen aus, probably from a figurative sense represented by English stem (n.) in the sense of "stock of a family, line of descent" (c.1540; cognates: family tree, and German stammvater "tribal ancestor," literally "stem-father").

Wiktionary
stem

Etymology 1 n. 1 The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. 2 A branch of a family. 3 An advanced or leading position; the lookout. 4 (context botany English) The above-ground stalk (''technically'' axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms. 5 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. 6 A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon. 7 (context linguistic morphology English) The main part of an inflection word to which affix may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugation and declension derive from their stems. 8 (context typography English) A vertical stroke of a letter. 9 (context music English) A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music. 10 (context nautical English) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached. 11 Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork vb. 1 To remove the stem from. 2 To be cause or derive; to originate. 3 To descend in a family line. 4 To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against. 5 (context obsolete English) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram. 6 To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole. Etymology 2

vb. 1 To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). 2 (context skiing English) 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. Etymology 3

n. (alternative form of steem English) Etymology 4

n. (alternative form of STEM English)

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WordNet
stem

  1. v. grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"

  2. cause to point inward; "stem your skis"

  3. stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide" [syn: stanch, staunch, halt]

  4. remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

  5. [also: stemming, stemmed]

stem

  1. n. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, theme, radical]

  2. a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stalk]

  3. cylinder forming a long narrow part of something [syn: shank]

  4. the tube of a tobacco pipe

  5. front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow]

  6. a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it [syn: stem turn]

  7. [also: stemming, stemmed]

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Gazetteer
Stem, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 229
Housing Units (2000): 102
Land area (2000): 0.936489 sq. miles (2.425495 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001160 sq. miles (0.003004 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.937649 sq. miles (2.428499 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64940
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 36.200527 N, 78.723605 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27581
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Stem, NC
Stem
Wikipedia
Stem

Stem may refer to:

Science
  • Plant stem, the aboveground structures that have vascular tissue and that support leaves and flowers
    • Stipe (botany)
    • Stipe (mycology)
  • Stem cell
  • STEM fields, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as collective fields of study
  • The stem or stem group of a clade (in biological classification) consists of extinct organisms more closely related to the crown group than to any other extant clade
  • Word stem, the base part of a word not including inflectional morphemes
Music and audio production
  • Stem (music), a part of a written musical note
  • Stem mixing and mastering, a group of audio tracks
  • Stem (audio), in audio production, a group of audio sources mixed together
  • "Stem", a song by Canadian musician Hayden from his 1995 album Everything I Long For
  • "Stem", a song by American industrial metal band Static-X from its 1999 album Wisconsin Death Trip
  • "Stem" (Ringo Sheena song), a 2003 song by Ringo Sheena from the album Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana
  • "Stem" (DJ Shadow song), a song by DJ Shadow on the album Endtroducing.....
  • The Stems, an Australian garage rock/power pop group from the 1980s
Other
  • Stem (morphology), the part of a word common to all its inflected variants
  • The first part of a multiple choice question, not including the set of answer options
  • Stem (bicycle part), connects the handlebars to the steer tube of a bicycle fork
  • Stem (lesbian), a woman who exhibits some stereotypical butch and lesbian traits without fitting the masculine stereotype associated with butch lesbians
  • Crack stem, a device for smoking crack cocaine
  • Stem ( REXX language), part of a compound variable in the REXX computer programming language
  • Stem (ship), the upright member mounted on the forward end of a vessel's keel, to which the strakes are attached
  • Stem, North Carolina, a city in Granville County.
  • Stem (skiing), a technique in skiing
  • Watch stem

STEM may refer to:

  • Scanning transmission electron microscopy
  • Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler, a free software developed by IBM
Stem (DJ Shadow song)

"Stem" is a song by DJ Shadow from his 1996 debut studio album, Endtroducing...... The song reached number 9 on the Irish Singles Chart, DJ Shadow's only ever top 10 hit.

The album version of the song combines "Stem" with "Long Stem".

Stem (ship)

The stem is the most forward part of a boat or ship's bow and is an extension of the keel itself. The stem is the curved edge stretching from the keel below, up to the gunwale of the boat. The stem is often found on wooden boats or ships, but not exclusively. The stem is part of the physical structure of a wooden boat or ship that gives it strength at the critical section of the structure, bringing together the port and starboard side planks of the hull.

Stem (Ringo Sheena song)

"Stem," also known by its Japanese translated title is a song written by Japanese singer Ringo Sheena and released in several versions.

Stem (music)

In musical notation, stems are the, "thin, vertical lines that are directly connected to the [[notehead|[note] head]] ." Stems may point up or down. Different-facing stems indicate the voice for polyphonic music written on the same staff. Within one voice, the stems usually point down for notes on the middle line or higher, and up for those below. If the stem points up from a notehead, the stem originates from the right-hand side of the note, but if it points down, it originates from the left. There is an exception to this rule: if a chord contains a second, the stem runs between the two notes with the higher being placed on the right of the stem and the lower on the left. If the chord contains an odd numbered cluster of notes a second apart (such as C, D, E), the outer two will be on the correct side of the stem, while the middle note will be on the wrong side.

The length of a stem should be that of an octave on the staff, going to either an octave higher or lower than the notehead, depending on which way the stem is pointing. If a note head is on a ledger line more than an octave away from the middle line of a staff, the stem will be elongated to touch the middle line. In any polyphonic music in which two parts are written on the same staff, stems are typically shortened to keep the music visually centered upon the staff.

Stems may be altered in various ways to alter the rhythm or other method of performance. For example, a note with diagonal slashes through its stem is played tremolo.

Stem (bicycle part)

The stem is the component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the steerer tube of the bicycle fork. Sometimes called a goose neck, a stem's design belongs to either a quill or threadless system, and each system is compatible with respective headset and fork designs:

::* Quill: the stem inserts into the steerer tube, which is threaded and does not extend above the headset.

::* Threadless: the stem clamps around the steerer tube, which is not threaded and extends above the headset.

Stem (audio)

In audio production, a stem is a discrete or grouped collection of audio sources mixed together, usually by one person, to be dealt with downstream as one unit. A single stem may be delivered in mono, stereo, or in multiple tracks for surround sound.

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Usage examples of "stem".

While it is indeed possible to derive stem cells from aborted embryos, it is seldom done for two reasons.

Its stem and leaves yield, when wounded, an acrid milky juice which is popularly applied for destroying warts, and corns.

It was shown in the last chapter that the stolons or runners of certain plants circumnutate largely, and that this movement apparently aids them in finding a passage between the crowded stems of adjoining plants.

You may trace a common motive and force in the pyramid-builders of the earliest recorded antiquity, in the evolution of Greek architecture, and in the sudden springing up of those wondrous cathedrals of the twelfth and following centuries, growing out of the soil with stem and bud and blossom, like flowers of stone whose seeds might well have been the flaming aerolites cast over the battlements of heaven.

At the edge of the woods, the tall stems of goldenrod, low masses of blue ageratum, black-eyed Susans, and lavender asters, all tangled with binding vines of pink morning glory just closing its flowers.

The Hemp Agrimony grows with us in moist, shady places, with a tall reddish stem, and with terminal crowded heads of dull lilac flowers.

I hastened to the aperture, and under the crustations of coral, covered with fungi, syphonules, alcyons, madrepores, through myriads of charming fish--girelles, glyphisidri, pompherides, diacopes, and holocentres--I recognised certain debris that the drags had not been able to tear up--iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, bullets, capstan fittings, the stem of a ship, all objects clearly proving the wreck of some vessel, and now carpeted with living flowers.

Zoo klaagde zij voort met lossamenhangende zinnen, in haar nervoziteit geprikkeld door een avond eenzaam gemijmer in een overwarme kamer, steeds terugkomende op haar doelloos leven, dat zij voortsleepte als een vervelenden last, en er klonk iets in hare stem als verweet zij dit alles aan hem, aan Henk, aan haar zwager.

En toch was er iets in zijn stem, in zijn blik, dat haar aantrok, in zijne vertrouwelijke gemoedelijke wijze van zijn, dat haar van steun sprak, zoodat zij soms het vage verlangen gevoelde, haar hoofd als moede op zijn schouder te leggen.

These heavily optimized fake stem cells biological robots in all but name spawn like cancer, ejecting short-lived anucleated secondary cells.

When the bark of the main stems is wounded, a gum will exude, and may be collected: it possesses astringent and mildly aperient properties.

For the same reason, artichokes in Italy are sold with their stems and outer leaves, tomatoes are still attached to their vines, and zucchini are displayed with their flowers intact.

In the same way, auxins will concentrate on the lower side of a stem held horizontally, curving the tip upward.

The solitary flowers are produced on rather long stems from the axils of the leaves.

The leaves, which are rather larger than a shilling, fleshy, cupped, and glaucous, are curiously arranged on the stems, somewhat reflexed, and otherwise twisted at their axils, presenting a flattened but pleasing appearance.