Bore (imp.) of Bear |
Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument |
Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus |
Bore (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring |
Bore (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness |
Bore (v. t.) To befool |
Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument |
Bore (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns |
Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. |
Bore (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air |
Bore (n.) A hole made by boring |
Bore (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. |
Bore (n.) The size of a hole |
Bore (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. |
Bore (n.) Caliber |
Bore (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness |
Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China. |
Bore (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel. |
Bore () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear. |
Stem (v. i.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem (n.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem (n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind |
Stem (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch |
Stem (n.) The stock of a family |
Stem (n.) A branch of a family. |
Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel |
Stem (n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position |
Stem (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk |
Stem (n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. |
Stem (n.) The entire central axis of a feather. |
Stem (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian. |
Stem (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note |
Stem (n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection |
Stem (v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from |
Stem (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole. |
Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel |
Stem (v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. |
Stem-clasping (a.) Embracing the stem with its base |
Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch. |
Stem-winding (a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem |
stem turn stem | a turn made in skiing, the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it |
bore bore-hole drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
bore bit borer rock drill stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
bow fore prow stem | front part of a vessel or aircraft, he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line |
shank stem | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something |
stem | the tube of a tobacco pipe |
stem-winder | a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem |
bore gauge caliber calibre | diameter of a tube or gun barrel |
brainstem brain-stem brain stem | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus |
stem cell | an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells) |
hematopoeitic stem cell | blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow, T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
stem vowel thematic vowel | a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection |
tidal bore bore eagre aegir eager | a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) |
bore dullard | a person who evokes boredom |
celtuce stem lettuce Lactuca sativa asparagina | lettuce valued especially for its edible stems |
bluestem blue stem Andropogon furcatus Andropogon gerardii | tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States |
common ginger Canton ginger stem ginger Zingiber officinale | tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root, source of gingerroot and powdered ginger |
onion stem Lepiota cepaestipes | a white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base |
stalk stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
black-stem spleenwort black-stemmed spleenwort little ebony spleenwort | fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil |
stem blight | a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants |
little potato rosette russet scab stem canker | rhizoctinia disease of potatoes |
stem | remove the stem from, for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed |
stem stanch staunch halt | stop the flow of a liquid, staunch the blood flow, stem the tide |
bore drill | make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool, don't drill here, there's a gas pipe, drill a hole into the wall, drill for oil, carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall |
bore tire | cause to be bored |
stem | grow out of, have roots in, originate in, The increase in the national debt stems from the last war |
stem | cause to point inward, stem your skis |