do vs stem

do

verb
  • To exist with a purpose or for a reason. 

  • To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc. 

  • To suffice. 

  • To finish. 

  • To fare, perform (well or poorly). 

  • To have (as an effect). 

  • To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something). 

  • A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE. 

  • A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be. 

  • To take drugs. 

  • To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned. 

  • To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of. 

  • To be reasonable or acceptable. 

  • To have sex with. (See also do it) 

  • To have as one's job. 

  • To cook. 

  • To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate. 

  • To punish for a misdemeanor. 

  • To make or provide. 

  • A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods. 

  • To treat in a certain way. 

  • To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for. 

  • A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods. 

  • Let’s do New York also. 

  • To kill. 

  • To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note. 

  • To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time) 

  • To impersonate or depict. 

  • To injure (one's own body part). 

  • To perform; to execute. 

  • To cheat or swindle. 

num
  • The cardinal number occurring after el and before do one in a duodecimal system. Written 10, decimal value 12. 

noun
  • A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale. 

  • A homicide. 

  • A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality. 

  • Something that can or should be done. 

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. 

How often have the words do and stem occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )