Stem vs. Branch

Stemnoun

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Stemnoun

A branch of a family.

Stemnoun

An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Stemnoun

(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.

Stemnoun

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.

Stemnoun

A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.

Stemnoun

(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.

Stemnoun

(slang) A person's leg.

Stemnoun

(slang) The penis.

Stemnoun

(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.

Stemnoun

(music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.

Stemnoun

(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.

Stemnoun

Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork

Stemnoun

(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.

Stemnoun

(slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.

Stemnoun

(chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism

Stemnoun

alternative form of STEM

Stemverb

To remove the stem from.

Stemverb

To be caused or derived; to originate.

Stemverb

To descend in a family line.

Stemverb

To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

Stemverb

(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

Stemverb

To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

Stemverb

(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).

Stemverb

(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.

Stemverb

To gleam.

Stemverb

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.

Stemverb

To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

Stemverb

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.

Stemverb

To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

Stemnoun

A gleam of light; flame.

Stemnoun

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.

Stemnoun

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.

Stemnoun

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Stemnoun

A branch of a family.

Stemnoun

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.

Stemnoun

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

Stemnoun

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.

Stemnoun

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

Stemnoun

The entire central axis of a feather.

Stemnoun

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

Stemnoun

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

Stemnoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;

Stemnoun

a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

Stemnoun

cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

Stemnoun

the tube of a tobacco pipe

Stemnoun

front part of a vessel or aircraft;

Stemnoun

a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

Stemverb

grow out of, have roots in, originate in;

Stemverb

cause to point inward;

Stemverb

stop the flow of a liquid;

Stemverb

remove the stem from;

Branchnoun

The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

Branchnoun

Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.

Branchnoun

A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.

Branchnoun

(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.

Branchnoun

A location of an organization with several locations.

Branchnoun

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.

Branchnoun

(Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.

Branchnoun

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

Branchnoun

(nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.

Branchnoun

(computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.

Branchnoun

(computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.

Branchnoun

(rail transport) A branch line.

Branchverb

(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

Branchverb

(intransitive) To produce branches.

Branchverb

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.

Branchverb

To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

Branchnoun

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

Branchnoun

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.

Branchnoun

Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

Branchnoun

One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

Branchnoun

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.

Branchnoun

A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

Branchadjective

Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

Branchverb

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

Branchverb

To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

Branchverb

To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

Branchverb

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Branchnoun

an administrative division of some larger or more complex organization;

Branchnoun

a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

Branchnoun

a part of a forked or branching shape;

Branchnoun

a natural consequence of development

Branchnoun

a stream or river connected to a larger one

Branchnoun

any projection that is thought to resemble an arm;

Branchverb

grow and send out branches or branch-like structures;

Branchverb

divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;

Branchnoun

a part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough

Branchnoun

a lateral extension or subdivision extending from the main part of a river, road, railway, etc.

Branchnoun

a division or office of a large business or organization, operating locally or having a particular function

Branchnoun

a conceptual subdivision of a family, subject, group of languages, etc.

Branchverb

(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions

Branchverb

diverge from the main route or part

Branchverb

extend or expand one's activities or interests in a new direction

Branchverb

(of a tree or plant) bear or send out branches

Branch

A branch (UK: or UK: , US: ) or tree branch (sometimes referred to in botany as a ramus) is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree (or sometimes a shrub). Large branches are known as boughs and small branches are known as twigs.