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Gas vs Stem - What's the difference?

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In uncountable terms the difference between gas and stem

is that gas is a flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles while stem is acronym of science technology, engineering, (and) mathematics|lang=en.

In countable terms the difference between gas and stem

is that gas is a hob on a gas cooker while stem is acronym of lang=en.

In lang=en terms the difference between gas and stem

is that gas is a humorous or entertaining event or person while stem is a vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.

As nouns the difference between gas and stem

is that gas is matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly while stem is the stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

As verbs the difference between gas and stem

is that gas is to kill with poisonous gas while stem is to remove the stem from.

As an adjective gas

is comical, zany.

As a proper noun Gas

is a commune in Eure-et-Loir, France.

gas

English

(wikipedia gas)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gas, a word coined by chemist . From (etyl) .

Noun

  • (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
  • (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
  • (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
  • (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
  • (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
  • (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
  • (baseball) A fastball.
  • Synonyms
    * (state of matter) vapor / vapour * (digestive process) wind, fart (when gas is released) (qualifier)
    Derived terms
    * cooking with gas * gas giant * gaslight * gasometer * LP gas * natural gas * shale gas
    See also
    * fluid * liquid * solid

    Verb

  • To kill with poisonous .
  • To talk, chat.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
  • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}
  • To emit gas.
  • Etymology 2

    Shortening of (gasoline).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
  • (US) gas pedal
  • Synonyms
    * (gasoline) gasoline (US), petrol (British) * See also .

    Verb

  • (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
  • The cops are coming. Gas it!
  • (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel
  • Synonyms
    * (accelerate) step on the gas, hit the gas * (filll fuel tank) refuel

    Etymology 3

    Compare the slang usage of "a gas", above.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany.
  • Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
    It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.
    Usage notes
    * This is common in speech, but rarely used in writing.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    stem

    English

    (wikipedia stem)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) stemn, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
  • * Milton
  • all that are of noble stem
  • * Herbert
  • While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
  • A branch of a family.
  • * Shakespeare
  • This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.
  • An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
  • * Fuller
  • Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
  • (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
  • 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 .
  • 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 cherry
  • *
  • 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.
  • Derived terms
    * brain stem * from stem to stern * stem cell * stemless * stemplot * unstemmed

    Verb

    (stemm)
  • To remove the stem from.
  • to stem''' cherries; to '''stem tobacco leaves
  • To be caused]] or [[derive, derived; to originate.
  • The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
  • 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:
  • 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
  • To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Cognate with German stemmen, Dutch stemmen, stempen; compare (stammer).

    Verb

    (stemm)
  • To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
  • to stem a tide
  • * Denham
  • [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms
    * (sense) to be due to, to arise from * See also

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anagrams

    * ----