Curb vs Stem - What's the difference?
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(North America) A row of concrete along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK )
A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
* Denham
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A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
* Drayton
(North America) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with an adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
To check, restrain or control.
* "Curb your dog."
* Prior
To rein in.
To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
To bend or curve.
* Holland
To crouch; to cringe.
* Shakespeare
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
* Milton
* Herbert
A branch of a family.
* Shakespeare
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
* Fuller
(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.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
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.
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A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
(linguistic morphology) 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 [[declension, declensions derive from their stems.
(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
(music) A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.
(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
To remove the stem from.
To be caused]] or [[derive, 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.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
* Denham
* Alexander Pope
(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.
As nouns the difference between curb and stem
is that curb is (north america) a row of concrete along the edge of a road; a kerb (uk ) while stem is (countable).As a verb curb
is to check, restrain or control.curb
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Alternative forms
* kerb (British)Noun
(en noun)- By these men, religion, that should be / The curb , is made the spur of tyranny.
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- He that before ran in the pastures wild / Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws.
Derived terms
* curb appeal * curb service * roof curbVerb
(en verb)- Where pinching want must curb thy warm desires.
- crooked and curbed lines
- Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, / Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
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(wikipedia stem)Etymology 1
(etyl) stemn, .Noun
(en noun)- all that are of noble stem
- While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
- This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.
- Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
- After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem .
- the stem of an apple or a cherry
Derived terms
* brain stem * from stem to stern * stem cell * stemless * stemplot * unstemmedVerb
(stemm)- to stem''' cherries; to '''stem tobacco leaves
- The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
- As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Cognate with German stemmen, Dutch stemmen, stempen; compare (stammer).Verb
(stemm)- to stem a tide
- [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
- Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.