Stem vs. Branch

The main ascending part of a plant; a stalk or trunk.

A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree or shrub or from another secondary limb.

A slender stalk supporting or connecting another plant part, such as a leaf or flower.

A lateral division or subdivision of certain other plant parts, such as a root or flower cluster.

A banana stalk bearing several bunches of bananas.

A secondary outgrowth or subdivision of a main axis, such as the tine of a deer's antlers.

The tube of a tobacco pipe.

(Anatomy) An offshoot or a division of the main portion of a structure, especially that of a nerve, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel; a ramus.

The slender upright support of a wineglass or goblet.

An area of specialized skill or knowledge, especially academic or vocational, that is related to but separate from other areas

The small projecting shaft with an expanded crown by which a watch is wound.

A division of a business or other organization.

The rounded rod in the center of certain locks about which the key fits and is turned.

A division of a family, categorized by descent from a particular ancestor.

The shaft of a feather or hair.

(Linguistics) A subdivision of a family of languages, such as the Germanic branch of Indo-European.

The upright stroke of a typeface or letter.

A tributary of a river.

(Music) The vertical line extending from the head of a note.

Chiefly Southern US See creek. See Note at run.

The main line of descent of a family.

A divergent section of a river, especially near the mouth.

(Linguistics) The main part of a word to which affixes are added.

(Mathematics) A part of a curve that is separated, as by discontinuities or extreme points.

(Nautical) The curved upright beam at the fore of a vessel into which the hull timbers are scarfed to form the prow.

A sequence of program instructions to which the normal sequence of instructions relinquishes control, depending on the value of certain variables.

The tubular glass structure mounting the filament or electrodes in an incandescent bulb or vacuum tube.

The instructions executed as the result of such a passing of control.

To have or take origin or descent

(Chemistry) A bifurcation in a linear chain of atoms, especially in an organic molecule where isomeric hydrocarbon groups can vary in the location and number of these bifurcations of the carbon chain.

To remove the stem of

To put forth a branch or branches; spread by dividing.

To provide with a stem

To come forth as a branch or subdivision; develop or diverge from

To make headway against (a tide or current, for example).

(Computers) To relinquish control to another set of instructions or another routine as a result of the presence of a branch.

To stop or stanch (a flow)

To separate (something) into branches.

To restrain or stop

To embroider (something) with a design of foliage or flowers.

To plug or tamp (a blast hole, for example).

The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

(Sports) To turn (a ski, usually the uphill ski) by moving the heel outward.

Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.

To stem a ski or both skis, as in making a turn.

A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.

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

(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.

A branch of a family.

A location of an organization with several locations.

An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.

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

(Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.

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.

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.

(nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.

(linguistics) 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.

(computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.

(slang) A person's leg.

(computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.

(slang) The penis.

(rail transport) A branch line.

(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.

(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

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

(intransitive) To produce branches.

(music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.

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

To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

(cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.

(transitive) To strip of branches.

(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.

To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.

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

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.

Alternative form of STEM

Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.

One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

To remove the stem from.

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.

To be caused or derived; to originate.

A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

To descend in a family line.

Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

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

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

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

To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

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

To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

(skiing) 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.

An administrative division of some larger or more complex organization;

To gleam.

A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.

A part of a forked or branching shape;

To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

A natural consequence of development

To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.

A stream or river connected to a larger one

To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

Any projection that is thought to resemble an arm;

A gleam of light; flame.

Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures;

The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.

Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;

A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

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

A branch of a family.

A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.

Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.

That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.

The entire central axis of a feather.

The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.

The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;

A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

The tube of a tobacco pipe

Front part of a vessel or aircraft;

A turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

Grow out of, have roots in, originate in;

Cause to point inward;

Stop the flow of a liquid;

Remove the stem from;