main stemn.

Brit.

/ˌmeɪn ˈstɛm/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪn ˈˌstɛm/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: main adj.², stem n.¹

Etymology: < main adj.² + stem n.¹

a. The principal stem of a plant. Also figurative.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important

moreOE

firstc1275

principala1393

chiefa1400

main chance1577

forefront1589

principal verb1602

centre of gravity1718

avatar1859

main stem1900

Big Apple1909

prima ballerina1923

centrepiece1937

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iv. 118 The Labels [of fern are] all rowled up to the main Stem.

1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 469 The main stem, advancing higher and higher, left behind the subaltern blossom of a lower joint.

?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Aaaa/2 Trunked is..said of a tree, the main stem of which is borne of a different tincture from the branches.

1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 12 Where the leaf-stalk forms a safe niche between it and the main stem.

1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 24 To grow up and be the Main Stem, like Mr. Jeffries.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 33 Each single twig, Each one setting off straight to the sky As if it were the leader, the main-stem, the forerunner.

1992 Independent 25 Apr. 39/5 You can cut out whole stems at ground level, or just tweak at the laterals, the growths that spring from the main stem.

b. The principal stem of a branching anatomical structure, tree diagram, etc.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > arm or branch > main branch

bough?c1225

main stem1856

1856 Biblical Repertory July 454 Closeness of resemblance will not always prove a sure guide as to the era at which dialects became disconnected from the main stem.

1884 R. Jefferies Red Deer iv. 68 An antler is judged by the number of points or tines which spring from the beam. The beam is the main stem, and the points are the branches.]

1922 Glasgow Herald 23 Dec. 4 Then came the separating off of the larger Anthropoid Apes, leaving the main stem humanoid.

1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xiv. 375 The ramus descendens..should be traced..forwards to the point at which it leaves the main stem of the hypoglossal.

1968 Pediatrics 41 739 (title) Congenital stenosis of the right mainstem bronchus.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xiv. 466 Its main stem passes upward into the braincase in front of the pituitary.

1999 Anesthesia & Analgesia 88 302 We used computer tomographic scans to measure the diameter of the left mainstem bronchus.

2. Chiefly North American colloquial.

a. The main line of a railway.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > forming part of a system

line1825

main stem1832

1832 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 1 804/2 The western fork..connects it with the main stem.

1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 426 Assets. Main Stem..Lebanon Branch extension..Richmond Branch.

1869 Debow's Rev. May 360 It [sc. the Illinois Central Railroad] has its main stem, and its branches of twelve hundred miles.

b. The main course of a river.

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1854 Debow's Rev. July 19 The main stem, besides throwing off large boyous [sc. bayous], divides with the Northeast and Southeast Passes.

1993 Westcoast Logger Summer 13/1 About ten miles of river link Harrison Lake with the mainstem of the Fraser River.

c. The principal street of a town (now the usual sense); spec. Broadway, New York.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > main

master streetc1385

high street1548

town-gate1570

main street1598

master way1726

the main drag1851

main drag1851

main stem1900

1900 ‘J. Flynt’ & ‘F. Walton’ Powers that Prey x. 250 Investigations that have been begun in ‘the main stem’.

1907 J. London Road vii. 160 The kids began ‘battering’ the ‘main-stem’.

1927 W. Winchell Primer Broadway Slang in Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 27 Nov. 134/4 Broadway is known as ‘The Main Stem’.

1928 J. P. McEvoy Show Girl 199 The Main Stem hears under cover that ‘Get Your Girl’ may fold up soon for lack of suitable house.

1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route xv. 169 He knows and lives the justice of the jungle as well as he knows and lives the dog-eat-dog code of the main stem.

1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 36 Main stem, principal street of a city.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. p. xxii/1 London audiences were listening to a play called Broadway..typical of drama at that time in and around the Main Stem.

1971 M. Richler Why I Write in G. Lynch & D. Rampton Canad. Ess. (1991) 262 I was at last free to quit my room and stroll downtown. St. Catherine Street. Montreal's Main Stem, as the doyen of our gossip columnists has it.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

a. The curved upright timber or piece of metal at the bow of a vessel, into which the planks of the bow are scarfed; = the earlier forestam n. false stem: see quot. 1627². main stem: the ‘stem’ proper as distinguished from the ‘false stem’.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > stem-post or -piece

stem1538

stem-post1841

stem-piecec1860

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Rostrum,..also the stemme of a ship or boote.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B^v Christian Merchants that with Russian stems Plow vp huge furrowes in the Caspian Sea. Shall vaile to vs.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. lvi. 190 Piseus the Tyrrhene..armed the stemme and beake~head of the ship with sharpe tines and pikes of brasse.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 2 At the one end is skarfed into it, the Stem, which is a great timber wrought compassing.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 53 If her stem be too flat..fix another stem before it, and that is called a false stem, which will make her rid more way and beare a better saile.

1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 54 As far as Nereus doth, to Ashur's Land Plow out a passage with his stemm's and oars.

1668 London Gaz. No. 236/1 But the Flyboat breaking her Stemm, sunk..suddenly.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 317 The defect was in the stem itself.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 377/2 The height and rake of the stem and sternpost.

1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. 246 From the foremost perpendicular, set off all the rakes of the stem inside and out.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 179 He rode back to the ship,..and wondered at her..carven stem and stern.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding iii. 48 The stem of an iron ship..is usually a prolongation of the keel.

1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. vii. 98 The stems of all ships complete, as it were, the framing at the fore part of the vessel.

单词	main stem
释义	main stemn. Brit. /ˌmeɪn ˈstɛm/, U.S. /ˈmeɪn ˈˌstɛm/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: main adj.², stem n.¹ Etymology: < main adj.² + stem n.¹ 1. a. The principal stem of a plant. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important moreOE firstc1275 principala1393 chiefa1400 main chance1577 forefront1589 principal verb1602 centre of gravity1718 avatar1859 main stem1900 Big Apple1909 prima ballerina1923 centrepiece1937 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iv. 118 The Labels [of fern are] all rowled up to the main Stem. 1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 469 The main stem, advancing higher and higher, left behind the subaltern blossom of a lower joint. ?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Aaaa/2 Trunked is..said of a tree, the main stem of which is borne of a different tincture from the branches. 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 12 Where the leaf-stalk forms a safe niche between it and the main stem. 1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 24 To grow up and be the Main Stem, like Mr. Jeffries. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 33 Each single twig, Each one setting off straight to the sky As if it were the leader, the main-stem, the forerunner. 1992 Independent 25 Apr. 39/5 You can cut out whole stems at ground level, or just tweak at the laterals, the growths that spring from the main stem. b. The principal stem of a branching anatomical structure, tree diagram, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > arm or branch > main branch bough?c1225 main stem1856 1856 Biblical Repertory July 454 Closeness of resemblance will not always prove a sure guide as to the era at which dialects became disconnected from the main stem. 1884 R. Jefferies Red Deer iv. 68 An antler is judged by the number of points or tines which spring from the beam. The beam is the main stem, and the points are the branches.] 1922 Glasgow Herald 23 Dec. 4 Then came the separating off of the larger Anthropoid Apes, leaving the main stem humanoid. 1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xiv. 375 The ramus descendens..should be traced..forwards to the point at which it leaves the main stem of the hypoglossal. 1968 Pediatrics 41 739 (title) Congenital stenosis of the right mainstem bronchus. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xiv. 466 Its main stem passes upward into the braincase in front of the pituitary. 1999 Anesthesia & Analgesia 88 302 We used computer tomographic scans to measure the diameter of the left mainstem bronchus. 2. Chiefly North American colloquial. a. The main line of a railway. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > forming part of a system line1825 main stem1832 1832 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 1 804/2 The western fork..connects it with the main stem. 1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 426 Assets. Main Stem..Lebanon Branch extension..Richmond Branch. 1869 Debow's Rev. May 360 It [sc. the Illinois Central Railroad] has its main stem, and its branches of twelve hundred miles. b. The main course of a river. ΚΠ 1854 Debow's Rev. July 19 The main stem, besides throwing off large boyous [sc. bayous], divides with the Northeast and Southeast Passes. 1993 Westcoast Logger Summer 13/1 About ten miles of river link Harrison Lake with the mainstem of the Fraser River. c. The principal street of a town (now the usual sense); spec. Broadway, New York. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > main master streetc1385 high street1548 town-gate1570 main street1598 master way1726 the main drag1851 main drag1851 main stem1900 1900 ‘J. Flynt’ & ‘F. Walton’ Powers that Prey x. 250 Investigations that have been begun in ‘the main stem’. 1907 J. London Road vii. 160 The kids began ‘battering’ the ‘main-stem’. 1927 W. Winchell Primer Broadway Slang in Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 27 Nov. 134/4 Broadway is known as ‘The Main Stem’. 1928 J. P. McEvoy Show Girl 199 The Main Stem hears under cover that ‘Get Your Girl’ may fold up soon for lack of suitable house. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route xv. 169 He knows and lives the justice of the jungle as well as he knows and lives the dog-eat-dog code of the main stem. 1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 36 Main stem, principal street of a city. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. p. xxii/1 London audiences were listening to a play called Broadway..typical of drama at that time in and around the Main Stem. 1971 M. Richler Why I Write in G. Lynch & D. Rampton Canad. Ess. (1991) 262 I was at last free to quit my room and stroll downtown. St. Catherine Street. Montreal's Main Stem, as the doyen of our gossip columnists has it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas main stem a. The curved upright timber or piece of metal at the bow of a vessel, into which the planks of the bow are scarfed; = the earlier forestam n. false stem: see quot. 1627². main stem: the ‘stem’ proper as distinguished from the ‘false stem’. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > stem-post or -piece stem1538 stem-post1841 stem-piecec1860 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Rostrum,..also the stemme of a ship or boote. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B^v Christian Merchants that with Russian stems Plow vp huge furrowes in the Caspian Sea. Shall vaile to vs. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. lvi. 190 Piseus the Tyrrhene..armed the stemme and beake~head of the ship with sharpe tines and pikes of brasse. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 2 At the one end is skarfed into it, the Stem, which is a great timber wrought compassing. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 53 If her stem be too flat..fix another stem before it, and that is called a false stem, which will make her rid more way and beare a better saile. 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 54 As far as Nereus doth, to Ashur's Land Plow out a passage with his stemm's and oars. 1668 London Gaz. No. 236/1 But the Flyboat breaking her Stemm, sunk..suddenly. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 317 The defect was in the stem itself. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 377/2 The height and rake of the stem and sternpost. 1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. 246 From the foremost perpendicular, set off all the rakes of the stem inside and out. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 179 He rode back to the ship,..and wondered at her..carven stem and stern. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding iii. 48 The stem of an iron ship..is usually a prolongation of the keel. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. vii. 98 The stems of all ships complete, as it were, the framing at the fore part of the vessel. extracted from stemn.² < n.1672 as lemmas
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