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Stela
- noun - an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
Stele
- noun - an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
- the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant
Stell
- - To place or fix firmly or permanently.
Stems
- noun - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- cause to point inward; "stem your skis"
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
- remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
- stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide"
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
Stent
- noun - a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
Step-
- - A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc.
Steps
- noun - a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance; "he taught them the waltz step"
- a short distance; "it's only a step to the drugstore"
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- furnish with steps; "The architect wants to step the terrace"
- measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards"
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation; "She stepped into a life of luxury"; "he won't step into his father's footsteps"
- move with one's feet in a s
Stere
- - A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1
Stern
- adjective - Daniel Stern was the nom de plume of Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d'Agoult (née de Flavigny; 31 December 1805 – 5 March 1876).
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
- of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
- severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
- severely simple;
- 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?"
- the rear part of a ship
- United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)