Stemhead vs Stephen - What's the difference?
stemhead | stephen |
(nautical) The top and foremost end of a stem on a marine vessel.
*1898 , Joseph Conrad,
The first Christian martyr.
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* 1852 (William Harrison Ainsworth), Tale of a Carpet-Bag , Ainsworth's Magazine, Vol. 21, page 17:
* 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
* 2000 (Helen DeWitt), The Last Samurai , Miramax Books(2002), ISBN 0786887001, page 142:
As a noun stemhead
is (nautical) the top and foremost end of a stem on a marine vessel.As a proper noun stephen is
the first christian martyr.stemhead
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*stem-headNoun
(en noun)- [...] and a man, all in a heap in the bows of the boat, slept with both arms embracing the stem-head and with his cheek laid on the gunwale.
stephen
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* as a given name: StevenProper noun
(en proper noun)- And Stephen , full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
- I, for my part, ask any candid reader if it was not bad enough to be called Broadfoot, without having it aggravated into Stephen Broadfoot? I feel confident I will here get a tear of sympathy from all unhappy Andrews and Peters, and Aarons and Samuels, with a smile of disdainful compassion from thrice-happy Franks and Charleys and Bills.
- It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'', a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'' , ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
- I thought that ideally it should be a name which could work whether he was serious and reserved or butch, a name like Stephen which could be Steve or David which could be Dave.