rise vs stem

rise

verb
  • To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. 

  • To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus. 

  • To leave one's bed; to get up. 

  • To attain a higher status. 

  • To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn. 

  • To have its source (in a particular place). 

  • Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase. 

  • To develop. 

  • To become erect; to assume an upright position. 

  • To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse. 

  • To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch. 

  • To be resurrected. 

  • To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light. 

  • To slope upward. 

  • To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight. 

  • To go up; to ascend; to climb. 

  • To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation. 

  • To come; to offer itself. 

  • To move upwards. 

  • To grow upward; to attain a certain height. 

  • To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. 

  • To cause to go up or ascend. 

noun
  • An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope. 

  • The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts. 

  • A small hill; used chiefly in place names. 

  • A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group. 

  • The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence. 

  • An increase in a quantity, price, etc. 

  • The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater. 

  • The height of an arch or a step. 

stem

verb
  • To be caused or derived; to originate. 

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

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

  • 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. 

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

  • To descend in a family line. 

  • To remove the stem from. 

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

  • A branch of a family. 

  • A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork. 

  • The penis. 

  • 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 premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing. 

  • A person's leg. 

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

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

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

  • A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications. 

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

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

  • 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 vertical stroke of a letter. 

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

  • 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. 

  • An advanced or leading position; the lookout. 

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