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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

1. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
2. A branch of a family.
3. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
4. (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.
5. 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.
6. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
7. (linguistic morphology) 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.
8. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
9. (music) A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.
10. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.

Verbit

1. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
2. To remove the stem from.
3. (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.
4. To be caused or derived; to originate.
5. To descend in a family line.
6. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
7. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
8. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.