FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n (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.

n A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogue the shaft of a feather.

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

n (linguistic morphology) The main part of an inflection | uninflected word to which affix|affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugation|conjugations and declension|declensions derive from their stems.

n (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.

n (music) A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.

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

v To take out the stem from.

v To be cause | caused or derive|derived; to originate.

v To descend in a family line.

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

v (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

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

v (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.