stem

Definitions

• The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
• A branch of a family.
• An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
• (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
• 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.
• A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
• (linguistics) 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.
• (slang) A person's leg.
• (slang) The penis.
• (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
• (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
• (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
• (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
• A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
• (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
• (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
• (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism