Stem vs Sprocket - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between stem and sprocket

is that stem is (countable) while sprocket is a toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.

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)

External links

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Anagrams

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sprocket

English

(wikipedia sprocket)

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)

A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.

(usually, in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.

(architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.

A (placeholder name) for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.

Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 widgets per year, and a sprocket factory that produces 200 sprockets per year.

Usage notes

Although sprockets are sometimes referred to as gears , there is a technical distinction between the two: sprockets interact with chains, whereas gears interact with other gears.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

* sprocket wheel