Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word stem. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in stem.
Definitions and meaning of stem
stem
Pronunciation
enPR: stĕm, IPA(key): /stɛm/
Rhymes: -ɛm
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishstem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old Englishstemn, from Proto-Germanic*stamniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-(“to stand, stay”).
Noun
stem (pluralstems)
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
A branch of a family.
(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.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
(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.
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.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
(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.
(slang) A person's leg.
(slang) The penis.
(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
(music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
Synonyms:tail, (obsolete)virgula
(music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
(cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
(slang) 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.
Derived terms
Translations
References
“stem”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple presentstems, present participlestemming, simple past and past participlestemmed)
To remove the stem from.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To descend in a family line.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Synonyms
(to originate, stem from): to be due to, to arise from
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishstemmen, a borrowing from Old Norsestemma(“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danishstemme/stæmme(“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic*stammijaną. Cognate with Germanstemmen, Middle Dutchstemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple presentstems, present participlestemming, simple past and past participlestemmed)
(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
to stem a tide
(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.
In rock climbing, to use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
Synonyms
See also Thesaurus:hinder
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
stem (pluralstems)
Alternative form of steem
Etymology 4
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
Noun
stem (pluralstems)
Alternative form of STEM
Further reading
“stem”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“stem”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “stem”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Etymology 5
Blend of stud + femme
Noun
stem (pluralstems)
A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
Synonym:futch
Anagrams
EMTs, Mets, Smet, TEMs, mets
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /stɛm/
Etymology 1
From Dutchstem, from Middle Dutchstemme, from Old Dutch*stemma, from Proto-Germanic*stebnō, *stamnijō.
Noun
stem (pluralstemme)
vote
voice
Etymology 2
From Dutchstemmen.
Verb
stem (presentstem, present participlestemmende, past participlegestem)
to vote
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutchstemme, from Old Dutch*stemma, from Proto-Germanic*stebnō, *stamnijō. Under influence of Latin vox(“voice, word”), it acquired the now obsolete sense of “word”.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /stɛm/
Hyphenation: stem
Rhymes: -ɛm
Noun
stemf (pluralstemmen, diminutivestemmetjen)
voice, sound made by the mouth using airflow
the ability to speak
Zij is haar stem kwijt. ― She’s lost her voice.
vote
(obsolete) word
(phonetics) voice, property formed by vibration of the vocal cords
Derived terms
Descendants
Afrikaans: stem
Negerhollands: stem
→ Aukan: sitemu
→ Caribbean Javanese: setèm, nyetèm, nyetèmi
→ Indonesian: sêtèm
→ Indonesian: suara(semantic loan)
→ Papiamentu: stèm
→ Sranan Tongo: sten, stèm
→ Trió: sten
Verb
stem
inflection of stemmen:
first-person singular present indicative
imperative
Anagrams
mest, mets
Indonesian
Etymology
From Englishstem, from Middle Englishstem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old Englishstemn, from Proto-Germanic*stamniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-(“to stand, stay”).
(nautical)stem: the vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
Further reading
“stem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.