stem

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

A branch of a family.

An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.

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”

A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.

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.

A person's leg.

The penis.

A vertical stroke of a letter.

A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.

A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.

The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.

A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork

A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.

A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.

(chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism

To remove the stem from.

“to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves”

To be caused or derived; to originate.

“The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.”

To descend in a family line.

To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).

“to stem a tide”

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.

A gleam of light; a flame.

Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.

An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms.