stem

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /stɛm/    美 /stɛm/|/stɪm/|/stem/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”). alt-of,alternative
  3. Alternative form of STEM. alt-of,alternative
    — 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.
  4. Alternative form of steem. alt-of,alternative
  5. A branch of a family.
    — This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.
  6. A branch of a family.; 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.
  7. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
    — Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
  11. 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 […].
  12. A person's leg. slang
    — 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.
  13. The penis. slang
    — Waves of ecstasy roll through him as the moustachioed Casanova slides his stem in and out of the spaced-out chick.
  14. A vertical stroke of a letter.
  15. A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
  16. A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
    — Stem mastering processes a mix by breaking it down into several manageable pieces—that is, stereo stems. The stem approach allows the mastering engineer the opportunity to make larger or smaller changes to separate mix elements before the final compression and limiting are applied to the complete mix.
  17. The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
  18. The front part of a vessel. broadly
    — from stem to stern
  19. A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
  20. A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
  21. A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe. slang
  22. A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism. UK
动词 v.
  1. To remove the stem from.
    — to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves
  2. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). transitive
    — to stem a tide
  3. To be caused or derived; to originate.
    — The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
  4. 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.
  5. To descend in a family line.
  6. To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
  7. 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.
  8. To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram. obsolete
    — 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 […]
  9. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

词形变化

stems plural stems present,singular,third-person stemming participle,present stemmed participle,past stemmed past stems present,singular,third-person stemming participle,present stemmed participle,past stemmed past stems plural stems plural stems plural

词汇关系

衍生词
a-stem bluestem brain stem brittlestem celestial stem consonant stem destem flower stem stem to stern give the stem heavenly stem i-stem Mach stem macrostem mainstem multistem nonstem oblique stem o-stem pipestem pseudostem question stem redstem ringstem screwstem softstem bulrush stem-and-leaf stem and leaf stembark stem borer stem cell stem-changing verb stem-clasping stem duchy stem family stemflow stem for stem stem ginger stem group stemhead stemless stemlet stem lettuce stemlike stemline stem-loop stem mammal stemmer stemmery stemmy stemness stem node stemplot stempost stem siren stem stitch stem the rose stem the tide stemward stemwards stemware stem-winder stemwinder straw stem substem tenderstem the apple does not fall far from the stem unstemmed u-stem vinestem wire stem wirestem bestem restem unstemmable

词源

词源 1
From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn (“stem”), from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz (“stem, tree stalk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch stam (“stem”), German Stamm (“stem”), Danish and Norwegian stamme (“stem”), Danish stavn, stævn (“stem of a boat”), Faroese stavnur (“stem of a boat”), stovnur (“institution, public body, foundation, basis”), Icelandic stafn (“stem of a boat”), stofn (“trunk, stock, livestock, stem”), Norn stomna, stimna (“strength, ability”), Swedish stäm (“tree trunk, stem”), stäv (“stem of a boat”), stomme (“frame, structure”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌼𐌰 (stōma, “substantial grounds, just cause”), Asturian estame (“stamen”), Aragonese estambre (“stamen”), Catalan estam (“stamen”), French étaim (“yarn”), Galician estame (“stamen, yarn”), Italian stame (“stamen”), Portuguese estame (“stem, yarn”), Spanish Spanish estambre (“stamen, a type of yarn”), Latin stāmen (“warp of a loom, thread hanging from a distaff”), Ancient Greek στῆμα (stêma, “stamen of a flower”), στάμνος (stámnos, “earthen jar, bottle for racking off wine”), Albanian shtamë (“pot, jar, pitcher, jug”), Sanskrit स्थामन् (sthā́man, “place, strength”). Doublet of stamen.
Not related to English stoma, which is a Greek loan inherited through New Latin.
词源 2
From Middle English stemmen, a borrowing from Old Norse stemma (“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danish stemme/stæmme (“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic *stammijaną. Cognate with German stemmen, Middle Dutch stemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
词源 3
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
词源 4
Blend of stud + femme.
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