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.
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 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.
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
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.
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism
alternative form of STEM
To remove the stem from.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
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.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
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.
Part of a body.
The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
The torso.
A container.
The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
A channel for flow of some kind.
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot
A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
The main line or body of anything.
A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.