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.
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.
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
To embroider with thread.
To cause to ferment.
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
To shape, form, or improve a material.
Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
Followed by as. Said of one's job title
To behave in a certain way when handled
To exhaust, by working.
Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
To ferment.
To set into action.
Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
To provoke or excite; to influence.
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
To cause to work.
To effect by gradual degrees;
To influence.
To move in an agitated manner.
To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
To effect by gradual degrees.
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
The staging of events to appear as real.
The result of a particular manner of production.
Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
Ore before it is dressed.
A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
Something produced using the specified material or tool.
One's employer.
Something on which effort is expended.
effort expended on a particular task.
The place where one is employed.
A fortification.
A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
labour, occupation, job.