Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word STEM
STEM
Definitions of STEM
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- A branch of a family.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- 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.
- To remove the stem from.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To descend in a family line.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
- (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.
- (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.
- (cycling) 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.
- (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (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.
- Alternative form of steem.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope.
- (uncountable) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
- A surname.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using STEM in a Sentence
- It is generally accepted that Lavoisier's great accomplishments in chemistry stem largely from his changing the science from a qualitative to a quantitative one.
- In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form.
- According to Max Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary, the toponym Dvina cannot stem from a Uralic language; instead, it possibly comes from an Indo-European word which used to mean river or stream.
- Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and differentiation of stem cells in the adult organism.
- It has a basal layer and a functional layer: the basal layer contains stem cells which regenerate the functional layer.
- Health sciences relate to multiple academic disciplines, including STEM disciplines and emerging patient safety disciplines (such as social care research).
- Two common methods of therapeutic cloning that are being researched are somatic-cell nuclear transfer and (more recently) pluripotent stem cell induction.
- Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) reside in the medulla of the bone (bone marrow) and have the unique ability to give rise to all of the different mature blood cell types and tissues.
- Many members of the family are widely cultivated, not only for their aromatic qualities, but also their ease of cultivation, since they are readily propagated by stem cuttings.
- On the foreign policy front, Lorenzo manifested a clear plan to stem the territorial ambitions of Pope Sixtus IV, in the name of the balance of the Italic League of 1454.
- They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants.
- Molecular clock calculations estimate the origin of stem group Malpighiales at around 100 million years ago (Mya) and the origin of crown group Malpighiales at about 90 Mya.
- The main stem is entirely within the United States; the total drainage basin is , of which only about one percent is in Canada.
- The intellectual origins of materials science stem from the Age of Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking from chemistry, physics, maths and engineering to understand ancient, phenomenological observations in metallurgy and mineralogy.
- It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin in the German stem duchy of Saxony.
- It comprises a chamber (the bowl) for the tobacco from which a thin hollow stem (shank) emerges, ending in a mouthpiece.
- In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can change into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell.
- They are usually large herbaceous plants with rhizomatous root systems and lacking an aerial stem except when flowering.
- The word's primary origin is the Proto-Indo-European stem , meaning "light", "easy" or "nimble", among other things.
- The fire leapt the south branch of the Chicago River and destroyed much of central Chicago and then crossed the main stem of the river, consuming the Near North Side.
- A branch, also called a ramus in botany, is a stem that grows off from another stem, or when structures like veins in leaves are divided into smaller veins.
- It is named a "tree structure" because the classic representation resembles a tree, although the chart is generally upside down compared to a biological tree, with the "stem" at the top and the "leaves" at the bottom.
- His temple was called E-Abzu, as Enki was believed to live in Abzu, an aquifer from which all life was thought to stem.
- The length of the Rio Grande is , making it the 4th longest river in the United States and in North America by main stem.
- In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem.
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