Meaning

• The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

• A branch of a family.

• An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

• The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.

• 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.

• 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 declensions derive from their stems.

• A person's leg.

• The penis.

• A vertical stroke of a letter.

• A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.

• A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.

• The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.

• A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork

• A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.

• A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.

• (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism

Meaning

• To remove the stem from.

  "to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves"

• To be caused or 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.

• To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

• To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.