come vs stem

come

verb
  • To be supplied, or made available; to exist. 

  • To do something by chance, without intending to do it. 

  • To carry through; to succeed in. 

  • To begin to have an opinion or feeling. 

  • To take a position relative to something else in a sequence. 

  • To become butter by being churned. 

  • Happen. 

  • To have a certain social background. 

  • To move from further away to nearer to. 

  • To move towards the listener. 

  • To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. 

  • To appear, to manifest itself. 

  • To be or have been a resident or native. 

  • To approach a state of being or accomplishment. 

  • To move towards an unstated agent. 

  • To move towards the speaker. 

  • To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from). 

  • To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. 

  • To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate. 

  • To germinate. 

  • To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of. 

  • To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. 

  • To arrive. 

  • To have been brought up by or employed by. 

prep
  • Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs. 

intj
  • An exclamation to express annoyance. 

  • An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. 

noun
  • Semen 

  • Female ejaculatory discharge. 

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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