Stem vs. Trunk
Difference Between Stem and Trunk
Stemnoun
The main ascending part of a plant; a stalk or trunk.
Trunknoun
The main woody axis of a tree.
Stemnoun
A slender stalk supporting or connecting another plant part, such as a leaf or flower.
Trunknoun
(Architecture) The shaft of a column.
Stemnoun
A banana stalk bearing several bunches of bananas.
Trunknoun
The body of a human or other vertebrate, excluding the head and limbs.
Stemnoun
The tube of a tobacco pipe.
Trunknoun
The thorax of an insect.
Stemnoun
The slender upright support of a wineglass or goblet.
Trunknoun
A proboscis, especially the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant.
Stemnoun
The small projecting shaft with an expanded crown by which a watch is wound.
Trunknoun
A main body, apart from tributaries or appendages.
Stemnoun
The rounded rod in the center of certain locks about which the key fits and is turned.
Trunknoun
The main stem of a blood vessel or nerve apart from the branches.
Stemnoun
The shaft of a feather or hair.
Trunknoun
A trunk line.
Stemnoun
The upright stroke of a typeface or letter.
Trunknoun
A chute or conduit.
Stemnoun
(Music) The vertical line extending from the head of a note.
Trunknoun
A watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
Stemnoun
The main line of descent of a family.
Trunknoun
The housing for the centerboard of a vessel.
Stemnoun
(Linguistics) The main part of a word to which affixes are added.
Trunknoun
A covering over the hatches of a ship.
Stemnoun
(Nautical) The curved upright beam at the fore of a vessel into which the hull timbers are scarfed to form the prow.
Trunknoun
An expansion chamber on a tanker.
Stemnoun
The tubular glass structure mounting the filament or electrodes in an incandescent bulb or vacuum tube.
Trunknoun
A cabin on a small boat.
Stemverb
To have or take origin or descent
Her success stems mostly from hard work.Trunknoun
A covered compartment for luggage and storage, generally at the rear of an automobile.
Stemverb
To remove the stem of
stemmed the apples.Trunknoun
A large packing case or box that clasps shut, used as luggage or for storage.
Stemverb
To provide with a stem
wine glasses that are stemmed.Trunknoun
trunks Shorts worn for swimming or other athletics.
Stemverb
To make headway against (a tide or current, for example).
Trunknoun
Part of a body.
Stemverb
To stop or stanch (a flow)
stemmed the bleeding.Trunknoun
The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
Stemverb
To restrain or stop
wanted to stem the growth of government.Trunknoun
The torso.
Stemverb
To plug or tamp (a blast hole, for example).
Trunknoun
The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
Stemverb
(Sports) To turn (a ski, usually the uphill ski) by moving the heel outward.
Trunknoun
(heading) A container.
Stemverb
To stem a ski or both skis, as in making a turn.
Trunknoun
A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
Stemnoun
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
Trunknoun
A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
Stemnoun
A branch of a family.
Trunknoun
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot
Stemnoun
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
Trunknoun
(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
Stemnoun
(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.
Trunknoun
A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
Stemnoun
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 cherryTrunknoun
A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
Stemnoun
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
Trunknoun
A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
Stemnoun
(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.
Trunknoun
(archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
Stemnoun
(slang) A person's leg.
Trunknoun
(mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Stemnoun
(slang) The penis.
Trunknoun
(software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
Stemnoun
(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
Trunknoun
The main line or body of anything.
the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branchesStemnoun
(music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
Trunknoun
(transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
Stemnoun
(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
Trunknoun
(architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
Stemnoun
Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
Trunknoun
A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
Stemnoun
(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
Trunknoun
Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).
Stemnoun
(slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
Trunkverb
(obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
Stemnoun
(chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism
Trunkverb
(mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
Stemnoun
alternative form of STEM
Trunknoun
the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
Stemverb
To remove the stem from.
to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leavesTrunknoun
luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
Stemverb
To be caused or derived; to originate.
The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.Trunknoun
the body excluding the head and neck and limbs;
they moved their arms and legs and bodiesStemverb
To descend in a family line.
Trunknoun
compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;
he put his golf bag in the trunkStemverb
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
Trunknoun
a long flexible snout as of an elephant
Stemverb
(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
Stemverb
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Stemverb
(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
to stem a tideStemverb
(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.
Stemnoun
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
thematic vowels are part of the stemStemnoun
a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
Stemnoun
cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
Stemnoun
the tube of a tobacco pipe
Stemnoun
front part of a vessel or aircraft;
he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish lineStemnoun
a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
Stemverb
grow out of, have roots in, originate in;
The increase in the national debt stems from the last warStemverb
cause to point inward;
stem your skisStemverb
stop the flow of a liquid;
staunch the blood flowthem the tideStemverb
remove the stem from;
for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed
