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In uncountable terms the difference between stem and body

is that stem is acronym of science technology, engineering, (and) mathematics|lang=en while body is comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).

As nouns the difference between stem and body

is that stem is the stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors while body is physical frame.

As verbs the difference between stem and body

is that stem is to remove the stem from while body is to give body or shape to something.

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

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    body

    English

    (wikipedia body)

    Noun

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  • Physical frame.
  • # The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
  • I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
  • # The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
  • The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
  • # A corpse.
  • Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
  • #
  • #* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 463:
  • Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body , it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [...]
  • #* 1876 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) , Chapter 28:
  • Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body 's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
  • #* , chapter=5
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}
  • What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
  • Main section.
  • # The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
  • The boxer took a blow to the body .
  • # The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
  • The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
  • # (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
  • Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
  • # The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
  • # A bodysuit.
  • # (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
  • In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
  • Coherent group.
  • # A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
  • I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
  • # An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
  • The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
  • # A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
  • We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
  • Material entity.
  • # Any physical object or material thing.
  • All bodies are held together by internal forces.
  • # (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
  • #* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
  • The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body , pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
  • We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
  • # (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
  • The red wine, sadly, lacked body .
  • # An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
  • #* 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine , page 179:
  • In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour [...]
  • #* 2012' March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, " World's largest extrusive '''body of sand?", ''Geology , volume 40, issue 5
  • Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
  • The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
  • (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
  • a nonpareil face on an agate body

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * acetone body * administrative body * after body * amygaloid body * anococcygeal body * asteroid body * astral body * Barr body * black body * bodice * bodily * body armour * body bag * body blow * body-build * bodybuilder * bodybuilding * body cavity * body-centered * body check * body clock * body coat * body conscious * body contact * body count * body-hugging * body image * body louse * body mass index * body odour * body politic * bodyshell * body shop * body snatcher * body-surf * bodysuit * bodywork * car body * dead body * foreign body * heavenly body * mind-body * out-of-body * over my dead body * real body * subtle body * student body * zebra body (body)

    See also

    * corporal * corporeal

    Verb

  • To give body or shape to something.
  • To construct the bodywork of a car.
  • To embody.
  • * 1955 , Philip Larkin, Toads
  • I don't say, one bodies the other / One's spiritual truth; / But I do say it's hard to lose either, / When you have both.

    References

    * Compact Oxford English Dictionary * MSN encarta

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