Leg vs Stem - What's the difference?
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The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.
(anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
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One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
(usually used in plural) evidence, the ability of a thing or idea to stick around or persist
(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
(cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
1000 English basic words
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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 leg and stem
is that leg is lake while stem is (countable).leg
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* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.
- The left leg of these jeans has a tear.
- After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.
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- the legs of a chair or table
Derived terms
* a leg to stand on * foreleg * get one's leg over * hind leg * leg break * leg-breaker * leggy * leg it * legroom * legs eleven * legwork * make a leg * pull someone's leg * shake a leg * show a bit of leg * show a leg * stretch one's legsSee also
* ankle * arm * buttocks * calf * crus * elbow * foot * hip * joint * knee * lap * limb * shank * shin * thick * thigh * vertebraVerb
(legg)Derived terms
* leg itAnagrams
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stem
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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.
