die vs stem

die

verb
  • followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from) 

  • followed by of; general use 

  • To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. 

  • To be mortified or shocked by a situation. 

  • To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. 

  • To yearn intensely. 

  • To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct. 

  • To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality". 

  • To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. 

  • followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences 

  • To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. 

  • To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). 

  • followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes 

  • To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote. 

  • To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. 

  • To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. 

  • To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated. 

  • To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). 

  • To lose a game. 

  • To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead. 

  • followed by with as an indication of manner 

noun
  • A device for cutting into a specified shape. 

  • The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth. 

  • A mold for forming metal or plastic objects. 

  • An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals. 

  • A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.) 

  • Any small cubical or square body. 

  • An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. 

  • An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. 

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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