“stemming” is a form of
stem
/stɛm/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms stems stemming stemmed
- noun The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- noun A branch of a family.
- noun (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- noun An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- noun (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.
- noun 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. “the stem of an apple or a cherry”
- noun A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- noun (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.
- verb To remove the stem from. “to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves”
- verb To be caused or derived; to originate. “The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.”
- verb To descend in a family line.
- verb To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- verb (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
- verb To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- verb (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). “to stem a tide”
- verb (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.
- verb (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
tail virgula bow fore forestem prow beak prore to be due to to arise from root root word base theme radical stalk shank stem turn stanch staunch halt
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn (“stem”), from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz (“stem, tree stalk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”).
Cognate with Dutch stam (“stem”), German Stamm (“stem”), Danish and Norwegian stamme (“stem”), Danish stavn, stævn (“stem of a boat”), Faroese stavnur (“stem of a boat”), stovnur (“institution, public body, foundation, basis”), Icelandic stafn (“stem of a boat”), stofn (“trunk, stock, livestock, stem”), Norn stomna, stimna (“strength, ability”), Swedish stäm (“tree trunk, stem”), stäv (“stem of a boat”), stomme (“frame, structure”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌼𐌰 (stōma, “substantial grounds, just cause”), Asturian estame (“stamen”), Aragonese estambre (“stamen”), Catalan estam (“stamen”), French étaim (“yarn”), Galician estame (“stamen, yarn”), Italian stame (“stamen”), Portuguese estame (“stem, yarn”), Spanish Spanish estambre (“stamen, a type of yarn”), Latin stāmen (“warp of a loom, thread hanging from a distaff”), Ancient Greek στῆμα (stêma, “stamen of a flower”), στάμνος (stámnos, “earthen jar, bottle for racking off wine”), Albanian shtamë (“pot, jar, pitcher, jug”), Sanskrit स्थामन् (sthā́man, “place, strength”). Doublet of stamen.
Not related to English stoma, which is a Greek loan inherited through New Latin.
From Middle English stemmen, a borrowing from Old Norse stemma (“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danish stemme/stæmme (“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic *stammijaną. Cognate with German stemmen, Middle Dutch stemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
Blend of stud + femme.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To gleam. [Obs.]
- noun A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]
- noun 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. After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. Sir W. Raleigh.
- noun 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.
Etymology [AS. stemn, stefn, stæfn; akin to OS. stamn the stem of a ship, D. stam stem, steven stem of a ship, G. stamm stem, steven stem of a ship, Icel. stafn, stamn, stem of a ship, stofn, stomn, stem, Sw. stam a tree trunk, Dan. stamme. Cf. Staff, Stand.]
Etymology [Either from stem, n., or akin to stammer; cf. G. stemmen to press against.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “stem”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details