| stalk | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble | material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds. |
| ~ bran | broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting. |
| ~ plant material, plant substance | material derived from plants. |
| n. (plant) | 2. stalk, stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ. |
| ~ gynophore | the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle. |
| ~ carpophore | a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel. |
| ~ corn stalk, cornstalk | the stalk of a corn plant. |
| ~ filament | the stalk of a stamen. |
| ~ funicle, funiculus | the stalk of a plant ovule or seed. |
| ~ petiolule | the stalk of a leaflet. |
| ~ cane | a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane. |
| ~ plant organ | a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus. |
| ~ sporangiophore | stalk bearing one or more sporangia. |
| ~ cutting, slip | a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting. |
| ~ tuber | a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage. |
| ~ rhizome, rootstalk, rootstock | a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure. |
| ~ axis | the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged. |
| ~ caudex | woody stem of palms and tree ferns. |
| ~ internode | a segment of a stem between two nodes. |
| ~ beanstalk | stem of a bean plant. |
| ~ cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade | a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf. |
| ~ receptacle | enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts. |
| ~ caudex, stock | persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant. |
| ~ stipe | supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap. |
| ~ flower stalk, scape | erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip. |
| ~ leafstalk, petiole | the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf. |
| ~ bulb | a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure. |
| ~ corm | solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure. |
| ~ leaf node, node | (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge. |
| ~ branch | a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant. |
| ~ culm | stem of plants of the Gramineae. |
| ~ halm, haulm | stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding. |
| ~ tree trunk, trunk, bole | the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber. |
| n. (act) | 3. stalk, stalking, still hunt | a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush. |
| ~ hunting, hunt | the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts. |
| ~ deerstalking | stalking deer. |
| n. (act) | 4. stalk, stalking | the act of following prey stealthily. |
| ~ chase, pursual, pursuit, following | the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture.; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit" |
| n. (act) | 5. angry walk, stalk | a stiff or threatening gait. |
| ~ gait | a person's manner of walking. |
| v. (motion) | 6. stalk | walk stiffly. |
| ~ walk | use one's feet to advance; advance by steps.; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" |
| v. (motion) | 7. haunt, stalk | follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to.; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her" |
| ~ pursue, follow | follow in or as if in pursuit.; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life" |
| v. (motion) | 8. stalk | go through (an area) in search of prey.; "stalk the woods for deer" |
| ~ pursue, follow | follow in or as if in pursuit.; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life" |
| stem | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. base, radical, root, root word, stem, theme | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| ~ descriptor, form, signifier, word form | the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something.; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. shank, stem | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something. |
| ~ anchor, ground tackle | a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving. |
| ~ handgrip, handle, grip, hold | the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip" |
| ~ key | metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated. |
| ~ nail | a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener. |
| ~ pin | a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things. |
| ~ wineglass | a glass that has a stem and in which wine is served. |
| ~ cylinder | a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. stem | the tube of a tobacco pipe. |
| ~ pipe, tobacco pipe | a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco. |
| ~ tube, tubing | conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. bow, fore, prow, stem | front part of a vessel or aircraft.; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" |
| ~ front | the side that is seen or that goes first. |
| ~ vessel, watercraft | a craft designed for water transportation. |
| n. (act) | 5. stem, stem turn | a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it. |
| ~ turning, turn | the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course.; "he took a turn to the right" |
| v. (stative) | 6. stem | grow out of, have roots in, originate in.; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war" |
| ~ originate in | come from. |
| v. (stative) | 7. stem | cause to point inward.; "stem your skis" |
| ~ orient | cause to point.; "Orient the house towards the West" |
| v. (change) | 8. halt, stanch, staunch, stem | stop the flow of a liquid.; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" |
| ~ check | arrest the motion (of something) abruptly.; "He checked the flow of water by shutting off the main valve" |
| v. (change) | 9. stem | remove the stem from.; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| main | | |
| n. (object) | 1. briny, main | any very large body of (salt) water. |
| ~ body of water, water | the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean).; "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" |
| ~ high sea, international waters | the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation. |
| ~ hydrosphere | the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor. |
| ~ offing | the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area.; "there was a ship in the offing" |
| ~ territorial waters | the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. main | a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage. |
| ~ electric main | a main that distributes electricity. |
| ~ gas main | a main that distributes gas. |
| ~ infrastructure, base | the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area.; "the industrial base of Japan" |
| ~ pipage, pipe, piping | a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.. |
| ~ sewer line, sewer main | a main in a sewage system. |
| ~ water main | main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water. |
| adj. | 3. chief, main, master, primary, principal | most important element.; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch" |
| ~ important, of import | of great significance or value.; "important people"; "the important questions of the day" |
| adj. | 4. independent, main | (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence.; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb" |
| ~ grammar | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). |
| adj. | 5. main | of force; of the greatest possible intensity.; "by main strength" |
| ~ intense | possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" |
| origin | | |
| n. (location) | 1. beginning, origin, root, rootage, source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being.; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" |
| ~ derivation | the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues).; "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation" |
| ~ spring | a point at which water issues forth. |
| ~ headspring, fountainhead, head | the source of water from which a stream arises.; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" |
| ~ headwater | the source of a river.; "the headwaters of the Nile" |
| ~ wellhead, wellspring | the source of water for a well. |
| ~ jumping-off place, point of departure | a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched.; "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco" |
| ~ place of origin, provenance, provenience, birthplace, cradle | where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence.; "the birthplace of civilization" |
| ~ home | place where something began and flourished.; "the United States is the home of basketball" |
| ~ point source | a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted. |
| ~ trail head, trailhead | the beginning of a trail. |
| ~ point | the precise location of something; a spatially limited location.; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. descent, extraction, origin | properties attributable to your ancestry.; "he comes from good origins" |
| ~ ancestry, filiation, derivation, lineage | inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline. |
| ~ full blood | descent from parents both of one pure breed. |
| n. (event) | 3. inception, origin, origination | an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events. |
| ~ beginning | the event consisting of the start of something.; "the beginning of the war" |
| ~ germination | the origin of some development.; "the germination of their discontent" |
| ~ cause | events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something.; "they are trying to determine the cause of the crash" |
| ~ prelude, overture, preliminary | something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows.; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner" |
| ~ procession, emanation, rise | (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.; "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. origin | the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero. |
| ~ intersection | a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations. |
| n. (process) | 5. origin | the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived.; "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation" |
| ~ source | (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system.; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide" |
| n. (group) | 6. ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock | the descendants of one individual.; "his entire lineage has been warriors" |
| ~ family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, folk, family | people descended from a common ancestor.; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" |
| ~ side | a family line of descent.; "he gets his brains from his father's side" |
| ~ family tree, genealogy | successive generations of kin. |
| trunk | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. bole, tree trunk, trunk | the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber. |
| ~ tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| ~ stalk, stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ. |
| ~ bark | tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. trunk | luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage. |
| ~ baggage, luggage | cases used to carry belongings when traveling. |
| ~ footlocker, locker | a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks). |
| ~ trunk lid | hinged lid for a trunk. |
| n. (body) | 3. body, torso, trunk | the body excluding the head and neck and limbs.; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" |
| ~ body, organic structure, physical structure | the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being).; "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ diaphragm, midriff | (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration. |
| ~ shoulder | the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm. |
| ~ articulatio humeri, shoulder joint, shoulder | a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula. |
| ~ serratus, serratus muscles | any of several muscles of the trunk. |
| ~ side | either the left or right half of a body.; "he had a pain in his side" |
| ~ chest, pectus, thorax | the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. |
| ~ midriff, midsection, middle | the middle area of the human torso (usually in front).; "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" |
| ~ waist, waistline | the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips. |
| ~ paunch, belly | a protruding abdomen. |
| ~ love handle, spare tire | excess fat around the waistline. |
| ~ hip | either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh. |
| ~ haunch | the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings. |
| ~ abdomen, belly, stomach, venter | the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis. |
| ~ back, dorsum | the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine.; "his back was nicely tanned" |
| ~ arse, ass, behind, buns, buttocks, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear end, tooshie, tush, backside, fundament, seat, bottom, rump, stern, tail end, bum, butt, can, rear, tail | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" |
| ~ buttock, cheek | either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump. |
| ~ loins | the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. automobile trunk, luggage compartment, trunk | compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools.; "he put his golf bag in the trunk" |
| ~ boot | British term for the luggage compartment in a car. |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| ~ compartment | a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area. |
| n. (animal) | 5. proboscis, trunk | a long flexible snout as of an elephant. |
| ~ neb, snout | a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose. |
| ~ elephant | five-toed pachyderm. |
| ~ mammoth | any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks. |
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