(taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside afamily or othercladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any othertaxon of the same rank.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
1655,Thomas Fuller,The Church-history of Britain;[…], London:[…] Iohn Williams[…],→OCLC,(please specify |book=I to XI):
He had placed her upon the grass by now, her back resting against thestem of a huge tree. At her question he stepped back where he could the better see her face.
Aslender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves andstems around them.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as awine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simplestems with the suffix-us or-ius, which correspond to some of the contracted forms in other languages[…].
2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers,August Harlequin Blaze:
She was perfectly, fuckably proportioned everywhere else, both above and below her waist. A pocket-size Venus, with the longeststems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive.
(music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
2019, Karl Pedersen, Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard,The Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Reference Handbook, Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page268:
Stem mastering processes a mix by breaking it down into several manageable pieces—that is, stereostems. Thestem 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.
(nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of thekeel, to which the forward ends of the planks orstrakes are attached.
Both we will walke vpon the loftie cliffes, And Chriſtian Merchants that with Ruſſianſtems Plow vp huge furrowes in the Caſpian ſea, Shall vaile to vs, as Lords of al the Lake.
(cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects thehandlebars to the bicycle fork.
(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
(slang) Acrack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
(chiefly British) Awinder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
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As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / Theystemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder[…]
stem (third-person singular simple presentstems,present participlestemming,simple past and past participlestemmed)
(transitive) Tostop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
tostem a tide
1636 (date written),John Denham, “The Destruction of Troy, an Essay upon the Second Book ofVirgilsÆneis”, inPoems and Translations, with The Sophy, London:[…][John Macock] forH[enry] Herringman[…], published1668,→OCLC:
[They]stem the flood with their erected breasts.
1711 May, [Alexander Pope],An Essay on Criticism, London:[…] W[illiam] Lewis[…]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor[…], T[homas] Osborn[e][…], and J[ohn] Graves[…],→OCLC:
Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age.
(skiing) 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.
(climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
2015 May 29, BBC News,How do US black students perform at school?:
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.
