English Dictionary

stem

IPA（発音記号）

/stɛm/

動詞

廃用

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.

日本語の意味

（植物の）茎を取り除く、摘む / 〜から由来する、生じる、起源となる / 家系内で子孫をなす、血統を引く / （船舶が）船首を特定の方向に向けて進む、逆風に抗して進む

Could you stem the cherries before you bake the pie?

パイを焼く前に、さくらんぼのへたを取ってくれますか？

意味（1）

To remove the stem from.

to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves

意味（2）

To be caused or derived; to originate.

The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.

意味（3）

To descend in a family line.

意味（4）

To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.

意味（5）

(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

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 […]

意味（6）

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

stems （ present singular third-person ）

stemming （ participle present ）

stemmed （ participle past ）

stemmed （ past ）