make vs stem

make

verb
  • To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something). 

  • To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status). 

  • To defecate or urinate. 

  • To constitute. 

  • To proceed (in a direction). 

  • To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability. 

  • Of water, to flow toward land; to rise. 

  • To develop into; to prove to be. 

  • To prepare (food); to cook (food). 

  • To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against. 

  • To force to do. 

  • To move at (a speed). 

  • To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action. 

  • To indicate or suggest to be. 

  • To enact; to establish. 

  • To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing. 

  • To form or formulate in the mind. 

  • To cause to appear to be; to represent as. 

  • To recognise, identify, spot. 

  • To take the virginity of. 

  • To perform a feat. 

  • To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man). 

  • To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence. 

  • To cover neatly with bedclothes. 

  • To cause to be. 

  • To build, construct, produce, or originate. 

  • To behave, to act. 

  • To cover (a given distance) by travelling. 

  • To interpret. 

  • To write or compose. 

  • To add up to, have a sum of. 

  • To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time. 

  • To appoint; to name. 

  • To bring into success. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

noun
  • A person's character or disposition. 

  • Quantity produced, especially of materials. 

  • A made basket. 

  • The camera was of German make. 

  • A home-made project 

  • Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production. 

  • Brand or kind; model. 

  • Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence. 

  • Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards. 

  • Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female). 

  • A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility. 

  • The closing of an electrical circuit. 

  • Mate; a spouse or companion; a match. 

  • A promotion. 

  • Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form. 

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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