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Stem vs. Trunk

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Stem has many sorts whereas a trunk has only one type.
We use the phrase 'stem' principally for vegetation and the phrase 'trunk' is used for bushes significantly.
Trunk has strains on it, when it is decrease and these strains mirror the age of a certain tree.
Janet White
Aug 20, 2015
Trunk is the precept supporting development of a tree which is connected to roots, whereas stem is simply not.
Stems wouldn't have a surrounding bark not like trunk.
Janet White
Aug 20, 2015
Stem serves to hold leaves and flowers.
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Leaves do not stick out of trunk whereas they do stick out of the stems.

Stem and Trunk Definitions

Stem

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

Trunk

The main woody axis of a tree.

Stem

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

Trunk

(Architecture) The shaft of a column.

Stem

A banana stalk bearing several bunches of bananas.
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Trunk

The body of a human or other vertebrate, excluding the head and limbs.

Stem

The tube of a tobacco pipe.

Trunk

The thorax of an insect.

Stem

The slender upright support of a wineglass or goblet.

Trunk

A proboscis, especially the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant.

Stem

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

A main body, apart from tributaries or appendages.

Stem

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

Trunk

The main stem of a blood vessel or nerve apart from the branches.

Stem

The shaft of a feather or hair.

Trunk

A trunk line.

Stem

The upright stroke of a typeface or letter.

Trunk

A chute or conduit.

Stem

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

Trunk

A watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

Stem

The main line of descent of a family.

Trunk

The housing for the centerboard of a vessel.

Stem

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

Trunk

A covering over the hatches of a ship.

Stem

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

Trunk

An expansion chamber on a tanker.

Stem

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

Trunk

A cabin on a small boat.

Stem

To have or take origin or descent
Her success stems mostly from hard work.

Trunk

A covered compartment for luggage and storage, generally at the rear of an automobile.

Stem

To remove the stem of
Stemmed the apples.

Trunk

A large packing case or box that clasps shut, used as luggage or for storage.

Stem

To provide with a stem
Wine glasses that are stemmed.

Trunk

Trunks Shorts worn for swimming or other athletics.

Stem

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

Trunk

Part of a body.

Stem

To stop or stanch (a flow)
Stemmed the bleeding.

Trunk

The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.

Stem

To restrain or stop
Wanted to stem the growth of government.

Trunk

The torso.

Stem

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

Trunk

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.

Stem

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

Trunk

(heading) A container.

Stem

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

Trunk

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.

Stem

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

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.

Stem

A branch of a family.

Trunk

The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.

Stem

An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Trunk

(automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.

Stem

(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.

Trunk

(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.

Stem

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

Trunk

A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

Stem

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

Trunk

A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

Stem

(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.

Trunk

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.

Stem

(slang) A person's leg.

Trunk

(archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter

Stem

(slang) The penis.

Trunk

(mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Stem

(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.

Trunk

(software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.

Stem

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

Trunk

The main line or body of anything.
The trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches

Stem

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

Trunk

(transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.

Stem

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

Trunk

(architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

Stem

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

Trunk

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.

Stem

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

Trunk

(in the plural) swimming trunks

Stem

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

Trunk

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

Stem

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

Trunk

To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.

Stem

Alternative form of STEM

Trunk

(telecommunication) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

Stem

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

Trunk

The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
About the mossy trunk I wound me soon,For, high from ground, the branches would requireThy utmost reach.

Stem

To remove the stem from.
To stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves

Trunk

The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.

Stem

To be caused or derived; to originate.
The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.

Trunk

The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

Stem

To descend in a family line.

Trunk

That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

Stem

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

Trunk

That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.

Stem

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

Trunk

The proboscis of an elephant.

Stem

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

Trunk

A long tube through which pellets of clay, p as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk.

Stem

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

Trunk

A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.
Locked up in chests and trunks.

Stem

(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.

Trunk

A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Stem

To gleam.
His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron].

Trunk

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.

Stem

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.

Trunk

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.

Stem

To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

Trunk

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.

Stem

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.
[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.

Trunk

The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

Stem

To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
Stemming nightly toward the pole.

Trunk

Luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage

Stem

A gleam of light; flame.

Trunk

The body excluding the head and neck and limbs;
They moved their arms and legs and bodies

Stem

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.
After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.
The lowering spring, with lavish rain,Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain.

Trunk

Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;
He put his golf bag in the trunk

Stem

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.

Trunk

A long flexible snout as of an elephant

Stem

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
While I do pray, learn here thy stemAnd true descent.

Stem

A branch of a family.
This is a stemOf that victorious stock.

Stem

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.

Stem

Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.

Stem

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.

Stem

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

Stem

The entire central axis of a feather.

Stem

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

Stem

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

Stem

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
Thematic vowels are part of the stem

Stem

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

Stem

Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

Stem

The tube of a tobacco pipe

Stem

Front part of a vessel or aircraft;
He pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line

Stem

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

Stem

Grow out of, have roots in, originate in;
The increase in the national debt stems from the last war

Stem

Cause to point inward;
Stem your skis

Stem

Stop the flow of a liquid;
Staunch the blood flow
Them the tide

Stem

Remove the stem from;
For automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed

What is Stem?

A stem is no doubt one of many elementary buildings of a vascular plant. Stem is unquestionably used after we seek the advice of with a plant. Stem of a plant is a straw like development the place flowers are grown. Stem is suppose to help the buds, leaves, fruits and many alternative parts of a plant, it moreover helps in transportation of weight loss plan all through your entire plant. Plant receives water, minerals and sugars by means of stems. Stem may be hooked as much as the precept trunk. Moreover, stem moreover convey leaves straight into the daylight, serving to the leaves to make meals for them by means of the tactic of photosynthesis. Stem has three elementary parts which can be, xylem, phloem and cambium. The elementary carry out of phloem is to carry meals to your entire plant, which is made by the tactic of photosynthesis and xylem carries water by way of your complete dimension of plant.

What is Trunk?

Trunk is connected to the roots of a tree. Trunk is roofed by bark and it does not have leaves protruding of it. Trunk can also be referred to as bole and is the precept supporting development of the bushes. It carries your entire tree cowl. Trunk has rings inside which can be acknowledged to predict the age of a certain tree, when it is decrease. Trunk could possibly be very useful as lumber and may be utilized in making picket furnishings. Many utensils are created from wood, too. Construction work moreover requires wood and moreover it’s used for decorative goal.

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