STEM vs STANCH: NOUN
- A turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- Front part of a vessel or aircraft
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- The main ascending part of a plant; a stalk or trunk.
- A slender stalk supporting or connecting another plant part, such as a leaf or flower.
- A banana stalk bearing several bunches of bananas.
- The rounded rod in the center of certain locks about which the key fits and is turned.
- The slender upright support of a wineglass or goblet.
- The small projecting shaft with an expanded crown by which a watch is wound.
- The shaft of a feather or hair.
- The upright stroke of a typeface or letter.
- The vertical line extending from the head of a note.
- The main line of descent of a family.
- The main part of a word to which affixes are added.
- The curved upright beam at the fore of a vessel into which the hull timbers are scarfed to form the prow.
- The tubular glass structure mounting the filament or electrodes in an incandescent bulb or vacuum tube.
- A connecting or supporting part, especially.
- A curved piece of timber or metal to which the two sides of a ship are united at the foremost end.
- In philology, a derivative from a root, having itself inflected forms, whether of declension or of conjugation, made from it; the unchanged part in a series of inflectional forms, from which the forms are viewed as made by additions; base; crude form.
- In musical notation, a vertical line added to the head of certain kinds of notes.
- In entomology, the base of a clavate antenna, including all the joints except the enlarged outer ones: used especially in descriptions of the Lepidoptera.
- In zoology and anatomy, any slender, especially axial, part like the stem of a plant; a stalk, stipe, rachis, footstalk, etc.
- The projecting rod of a reciprocating valve, serving to guide it in its action. See cut under slide-valve.
- In a vehicle, a bar to which the bow of a falling hood is hinged.
- In type-founding, the thick stroke or body-mark of a roman or italic letter. See cut under type.
- Anything resembling the stem of a plant.
- A branch of a family; an offshoot.
- The stock of a family; a race; ancestry.
- The stalk which supports the flower or the fruit of a plant; the peduncle of the fructification, or the pedicel of a flower; the petiole or leaf-stem. See cuts under pedicel, peduncle, and petiole.
- The body of a tree, shrub, or plant; the firm part which supports the branches; the stock; the stalk; technically, the ascending axis, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- The forward part of a vessel; the bow.
- The tube of a tobacco pipe
- In ornithology, the whole shaft of a feather.
- That which stanches or checks.
- That which stanches; that which quenches or allays.
- A flood-gate in a river for accumulating a head of water to float boats over shallows; a weir. See stank.
- A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
STEM vs STANCH: ADJECTIVE
- N/A
- Strong and tight; sound; firm.
- Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast.
- Close; secret; private.
STEM vs STANCH: VERB
- Remove the stem from
- Stop the flow of a liquid
- Cause to point inward
- Grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- Stop the flow of a liquid, such as blood from a wound
- To stop the flow of.
- Stop the flow of a liquid
STEM vs STANCH: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To provide with a stem.
- To make headway against (a tide or current, for example).
- To stop or stanch (a flow).
- To have or take origin or descent.
- To restrain or stop.
- To stem a ski or both skis, as in making a turn.
- To plug or tamp (a blast hole, for example).
- To turn (a ski, usually the uphill ski) by moving the heel outward.
- To remove the stem of.
- To cease, as the flowing of blood.
STEM vs STANCH: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
- To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from.
- To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
- To stop, check, or allay.
- To stop the flow of blood from (a wound).
- To stop or check the flow of (blood or tears, for example).
STEM vs STANCH: OTHER WORD TYPES
- A turn made in skiing
- An old spelling of steam.
- To head; advance head on.
- To stop; check; dam up, as a stream.
- To tamp; make tight, as a joint, with a lute or cement.
- To dash against with the stem (of a vessel).
- To keep (a vessel) on its course; steer.
- To make headway against by sailing or swimming, as a tide or current; hence, in general, to make headway against (opposition of any kind).
- To make headway (as a ship); especially, to make progress in opposition to some obstruction, as a current of water or the wind.
- To remove the stem of; separate from the stem: as, to stem tobacco.
- (idiom) (from stem to stern) From one end to another.
- To cause to cease flowing; check the flow of.
- To stop a flow from; dry, as a wound, by the application of a styptic.
- To quench; allay; assuage.
- To free; relieve: with of.
- To stop flowing; be stanched.
- To stop; cease.
- Dry; free from water; water-tight; sound: said of a vessel.
- Strong; firm.
- Sound and trustworthy; true: applied to hounds with reference to their keeping the scent.
- Sound or firm in principle; loyal; hearty; trustworthy.
- Synonyms Stout, steadfast, resolute, stable, unwavering.
STEM vs STANCH: RELATED WORDS
- Prevent, Curb, Root word, Theme, Prow, Shank, Base, Fore, Bow, Stalk, Radical, Staunch, Halt, Root, Stanch
- Alleviate, Curtail, Prevent, Curb, Avert, Tamp down, Stanched, Slake, Resuscitate, Forestall, Stave off, Quell, Halt, Staunch, Stem
STEM vs STANCH: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Curtail, Counteract, Quell, Prevent, Curb, Theme, Prow, Shank, Base, Fore, Radical, Staunch, Halt, Root, Stanch
- Revive, Pacify, Relieve, Curtail, Prevent, Curb, Avert, Tamp down, Resuscitate, Forestall, Stave off, Quell, Halt, Staunch, Stem
STEM vs STANCH: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- The NASA STEM Engagement site offers STEM resources, activities, lesson plans, virtual field trips, and more!
- University of South Alabama: Leukemic stem cells, stem cell therapy and tissue repair.
- Managing STEM Personnel to Meet Future STEM Needs Across the Air Force.
- The stem of a cactus plant stores water in its thick stem.
- Stem cells are found in adults, but the most promising types of stem cells for therapy are embryonic stem cells.
- Important to the positive STEM perception development of underrepresented students in STEM are opportunities to participate in authentic STEM learning experiences.
- STEM courses and programs, virtual labs, gaming and simulation, mobile applications, STEM career and transfer resources, and STEM research.
- Surveys of comfort level with STEM, knowledge of STEM, and perceptions of STEM were given to collect data in a demographic instrument.
- STEM Learning operates the National STEM Learning Centre and Network, alongside other projects supporting STEM education.
- Irregular verbs: Explanation of how to conjugate stem changers Stem changer worksheet Stem changer practice.
- Both father and daughter have been lifelong stanch supporters of the Tibetan movement.
- Santa Fe, it found, at most seemed to modestly stanch that decline.
- Then I shall want two stanch men, in case of resistance.
- Rankin is a stanch Republican, and has rilled various township offices.
- While he was always a stanch Republican in politics proper, Mr.
- There is no more ardent or stanch Republican than Mr.
- The release also sought to stanch any diplomatic fallout.
- Hong Kong as authorities seek to stanch economic contraction.
- In politics he has always been a stanch Democrat.
- Stanch, Staunch, to stop a flow of blood.
STEM vs STANCH: QUESTIONS
- Do leukemic stem cells and normal hematopoietic stem cells compete for function?
- Are A10 and a7r5 neural stem cell markers for vascular stem cells?
- What should the stem height be when replacing a headset stem?
- What is the stem length of a synthetic RNA stem loop?
- Is CD90 a useful stem cell marker in hepatic stem cells?
- Does stem have anything to do with stem cell research?
- Are STAP stem-cell lines contaminated with embryonic stem cells?
- How does cigarette smoke affect stem cell stem cells?
- Why choose Dayton Regional STEM school for STEM education?
- How are stem cells collected for stem cell donation?
- Is UBS racing to stanch outflows from landmark $20 billion real-estate fund?