The difference between Stem and Virgula

When used as nouns, stem means the stock of a family, whereas virgula means a small, thin, straight growth, particularly: the spines of a ray. the sicula of a graptolite.


Stem is also verb with the meaning: to remove the stem from.

check bellow for the other definitions of Stem and Virgula

  1. Stem as a noun:

    The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

  2. Stem as a noun:

    A branch of a family.

  3. Stem as a noun:

    An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

  4. Stem as a noun (botany):

    The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.

  5. Stem as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

    "the stem of an apple or a cherry"

  6. Stem as a noun:

    A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.

  7. Stem as a noun (linguistics):

    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.

  8. Stem as a noun (slang):

    A person's leg.

  9. Stem as a noun (typography):

    A vertical stroke of a letter.

  10. Stem as a noun (music):

    A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.

  11. Stem as a noun (nautical):

    The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.

  12. Stem as a noun:

    Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork

  13. Stem as a noun (anatomy):

    A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.

  14. Stem as a noun (slang):

    A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.

  15. Stem as a noun (chiefly British):

    A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism

  1. Stem as a verb:

    To remove the stem from.

    Examples:

    "to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves"

  2. Stem as a verb:

    To be caused or derived; to originate.

    Examples:

    "The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government."

  3. Stem as a verb:

    To descend in a family line.

  4. Stem as a verb:

    To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

  5. Stem as a verb (obsolete):

    To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

  6. Stem as a verb:

    To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

  1. Stem as a verb (transitive):

    To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).

    Examples:

    "to stem a tide"

  2. Stem as a verb (skiing):

    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.

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  1. Virgula as a noun (zoology):

    A small, thin, straight growth, particularly: The spines of a ray. The sicula of a graptolite.

  2. Virgula as a noun (obsolete):

    A divining or dowsing rod.

  3. Virgula as a noun (rare):

    Any small rod.

  4. Virgula as a noun (typography, rare):

    a punctuation mark.

  5. Virgula as a noun (music, obsolete):

    the tail of a note.

  6. Virgula as a noun (music, historical, obsolete):

    one of the neumes of medieval musical notation.

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