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Snub vs Stem - What's the difference?

snub | stem |

As nouns the difference between snub and stem

is that snub is a deliberate affront or slight while stem is (countable).

As an adjective snub

is conspicuously short.

As a verb snub

is to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone or snub can be to sob with convulsions.

snub

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Conspicuously short.
  • *
  • *:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
  • Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
    • Derived terms
    * retrosnub * snub cube * snub disphenoid * snub dodecahedron * snub polyhedron * vertisnub

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deliberate affront or slight.
    • I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub .
  • A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  • (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
  • * Spenser
    • [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
    Derived terms
    * snubbing post * snub line

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
  • To turn down; to dismiss.
    • He snubbed my offer to help.
  • To stub out (a cigarette etc).
  • To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
  • To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
    • Synonyms
    * (to slight or ignore) cut someone cold, cut someone dead

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) , and English snuff (transitive verb).

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To sob with convulsions.
    • (Bailey)

    Anagrams

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    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)

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