Stem vs Sub - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between stem and sub

is that stem is (countable) while sub is a submarine.

As a verb sub is

(us|informal) to substitute for or sub can be to coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.

As a preposition sub is

under.

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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sub

English

Etymology 1

Shortened form of any of various words beginning sub- , such as submarine, subroutine, substitute, subscription. The sandwich is so called because the bun's cylindrical shape resembles the shape of a submarine.

Noun

(en noun)

A submarine.

A submarine sandwich—a sandwich made on a long bun.

We can get subs at that deli.

(US, informal) A substitute.

With the score 4 to 1, they brought in subs .

She worked as a sub until she got her teaching certificate.

(British, informal) A substitute in a football (soccer) game: someone who comes on in place of another player part way through the game.

* 1930 , Boy's Live, Philip Scruggs, There Can Be Victory , page 20

At any other school you would be playing varsity, and Wallace has you pigeon-holed on the subs'." "Maybe he has his reasons," Jim replied. "And he hasn't pigeon-holed me on the ' subs yet — not this season.

(British, informal, often in plural) Short for subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.

(informal) A submissive in BDSM practices.

* 2004 , Paul Baker, Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang?

...roleplay where a sub or bottom takes care of a top's bodily and hygiene needs...

* 2007 , Laurell K Hamilton, The Harlequin

"It means that I'm both a sub and a dom." "Submissive and dominant," I said. He nodded.

* 2008 , Lannie Rose, How to Change Your Sex

Typically a dom and a sub have a more or less standard routine that they like to go through all the time.

(Internet, informal) A subtitle.

I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.

(computing, programming) A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).

* 2002 , Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl in a nutshell

The default accessor can be overridden by declaring a sub of the same name in the package.

* 2004 , P. K. McBride, Introductory Visual Basic.NET (page 49)

So far, all the subs and functions that we have used have been those built into the system, or those written to handle events from controls...

(colloquial, dated) A subordinate.

(colloquial, dated) A subaltern.

Synonyms

* (submarine sandwich) grinder, hoagie

Hypernyms

* (submarine sandwich) sandwich

Verb

(subb)

(US, informal) To substitute for.

(US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.

(British, informal, football) To replace (a player) with a substitute.

He never really made a contribution to the match, so it was no surprise when he was subbed at half time.

(British, informal, football) Less commonly, and often as sub on , to bring on (a player) as a substitute.

''He was subbed on half way through the second half, and scored within minutes.

(British) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.

(UK, slang, transitive) To lend.

* 2011 , Rowland Rivron, What the F*** Did I Do Last Night?

I kept up the pleasantries as we were drying our hands and, realizing I didn't have any change for the lodger, I asked him, one drummer to another like, if he could sub me a quid for the dish.

(slang) To subscribe.

(BDSM) To take a submissive role.

* Alicia White, Jessica's Breakdown (page 53)

You've never subbed before. Jessica will be expecting a man on stage that follows orders and enjoys what she's going to be doing. Do you want to be spanked? Possibly whipped?

* 2012 , Tiffany Reisz, Little Red Riding Crop

Wasn't like she'd never subbed before. She'd been a sub longer than she'd been a Dominatrix–ten years she'd spent in a collar.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) sub.

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Under.

Verb

To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.

(microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with an layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.

* 1997 , Marina A. Lynch, S. M. O'Mara (editors), Ali D. Hames, D. Rickwood (series editors), Neuroscience Labfax , page 166,

Ensure that gloves are worn when handling subbed' slides. Although the following protocol describes '''subbing with gelatin, slides may also be coated with either 3-(triethoxysilyl-)propylamine (TESPA) or poly-L-lysine for ''in situ hybridization.

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