Stern vs. Transom

Sternadjective

Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.

Sternadjective

Grim and forbidding in appearance.

Sternnoun

(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.

Sternnoun

(figurative) The post of management or direction.

Sternnoun

The hinder part of anything.

Sternnoun

The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.

Sternnoun

A bird, the black tern.

Sternnoun

The black tern.

Sternnoun

The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.

Sternnoun

The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.

Sternnoun

Fig.: The post of management or direction.

Sternnoun

The hinder part of anything.

Sternnoun

The tail of an animal; - now used only of the tail of a dog.

Sternadjective

Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.

Sternadjective

Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

Sternnoun

the rear part of a ship

Sternnoun

United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

Sternnoun

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

Sternadjective

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect;

Sternadjective

not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;

Sternadjective

severe and unremitting in making demands;

Stern

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship.

Transomnoun

A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.

Transomnoun

A horizontal dividing bar in a window.

Transomnoun

A transom window.

Transomnoun

(nautical) Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart.

Transomnoun

(nautical) The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship.

Transomnoun

The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.

Transomnoun

Items that have arrived over the transom.

Transomnoun

A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

Transomnoun

One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; - called also transsummer.

Transomnoun

The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

Transomnoun

The vane of a cross-staff.

Transomnoun

One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

Transomnoun

a window above a door and hinged to a transom

Transomnoun

a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it