Stem vs. Trunk

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;

Trunknoun

Part of a body.

Trunknoun

The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.

Trunknoun

The torso.

Trunknoun

The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

Trunknoun

(heading) A container.

Trunknoun

A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.

Trunknoun

A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.

Trunknoun

The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot

Trunknoun

(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.

Trunknoun

A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

Trunknoun

A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

Trunknoun

A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

Trunknoun

(archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter

Trunknoun

(mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Trunknoun

(software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.

Trunknoun

The main line or body of anything.

Trunknoun

(transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.

Trunknoun

(architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

Trunknoun

A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.

Trunknoun

Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).

Trunkverb

(obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

Trunkverb

(mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.

Trunknoun

The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

Trunknoun

The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.

Trunknoun

The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

Trunknoun

That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

Trunknoun

That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.

Trunknoun

The proboscis of an elephant.

Trunknoun

A long tube through which pellets of clay, p as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.

Trunknoun

A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.

Trunknoun

A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Trunknoun

A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.

Trunknoun

A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

Trunkverb

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.

Trunkverb

To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.

Trunknoun

the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

Trunknoun

luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage

Trunknoun

the body excluding the head and neck and limbs;

Trunknoun

compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;

Trunknoun

a long flexible snout as of an elephant

Trunknoun

the main woody stem of a tree as distinct from its branches and roots.

Trunknoun

the main part of an artery, nerve, or other anatomical structure from which smaller branches arise.

Trunknoun

an enclosed shaft or conduit for cables or ventilation.

Trunknoun

a person's or animal's body apart from the limbs and head.

Trunknoun

the elongated, prehensile nose of an elephant.

Trunknoun

a large box with a hinged lid for storing or transporting clothes and other articles.

Trunknoun

an enclosed space at the back of a car for carrying luggage and other goods; a boot.