Word Meanings - STEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. 6. Fig.: An advanced
Additional info about word: STEM
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. 6. Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout. Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years. Fuller. 7. 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. (more info) 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, 1. 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. The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain. Dryden. 2. 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. 3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. "All that are of noble stem." Milton. While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent. Herbert. 4. A branch of a family. This is a stem Of that victorious stock. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STEM)
- Resist
- Withstand
- oppose
- hinder
- check
- thwart
- rebuff
- stem
- combat
- Root
- Radix
- radicle
- origin
- source
- spring
- rise
- commencement
- parent
- Trunk
- Stem
- stock
- body
- shaft
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STEM)
- Loose
- liberate
- instigate
- accelerate
- license
- indulge
- allow
- abet
- Settle
- alight
- land
- drop
- arrive
- issue
- eventuate
- end
- terminate
- debouch
- disembogue
Related words: (words related to STEM)
- PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses. - CHECKWORK
Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard. - PARENTHESIS
One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas - SPREADINGLY
, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton. - TRUNKED
Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell. - PARENTATION
Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter. - STOCKER
One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc. - SPRINGBOARD
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. - SPRINGE
A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak. - SPRINGAL
An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring. - SHAFTING
Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion. - STOCKWORK
A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories. - SPRINT
To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym: - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - TRUNKFUL
As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk. - COMBAT
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon. - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - STOCK-BLIND
Blind as a stock; wholly blind. - TRUNK PISTON
In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - UNRESISTANCE
Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens. - ABORIGINALLY
Primarily. - WAY SHAFT
A rock shaft.