What's the difference between gammon and stem?

Gammon


Definition:

  • (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
  • (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
  • (n.) Backgammon.
  • (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
  • (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.
  • (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
  • (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The other rowers in the Arctic crew were Billy Gammon, 37, from Cornwall; Rob Sleep, 38, and British army officer Captain David Mans, 28, both from Hampshire.
  • (2) Six products purchased from Sainsbury’s stores were found to contain the superbug – five Danish gammon steak and one gammon joint – while an Asda Danish unsmoked gammon steak, a Co-operative Danish unsmoked back bacon pack and a Tesco Irish unsmoked gammon steak were also contaminated with CC398.
  • (3) People were warned not to wade or drive into floodwater after the death of a man, namedas Jonathan Gammon, 52, of Teddington, south-west London, whose car was swept downstream at a ford on the Berkshire-Hampshire border on Monday.
  • (4) Katharine Gammon is a journalist based in Santa Monica, writing about innovation, science and technology.
  • (5) Mike Coupe, commercial director at Sainsbury, sees a trend towards more unconventional centrepieces – from three-bird roasts to duck, goose, gammon and rib of beef.
  • (6) Our investigation is focused on establishing the events leading up to Mr Gammon's death and we will be preparing a file for the coroner."
  • (7) Of the 100 packets of pork chops, bacon and gammon tested by the Guardian, nine – eight Danish and one Irish – were found to have been infected with CC398.
  • (8) In this article, Guy Gammon, Eli Sercarz and Gilles Benichou speculate on which T cells may escape tolerance induction and discuss how these cells could subsequently be involved in autoimmunity.
  • (9) A team of 12 staff spent 24 hours perfecting their creation, using enormous pork pies for wheels, black pudding for handlebars, chipolatas for the chain and a gammon joint for the saddle.
  • (10) This is evident not only in the sections regarding Jahilia but in a scene of comical intent in which Farishta visits the Taj Mahal hotel in Bombay after a near-fatal illness in order to stuff his mouth with all sorts of pork products, including "the gammon steaks of unbelief and the pig's trotters of secularism".
  • (11) Mr Gammon was trapped in his car as it attempted to cross a ford on Monday morning.
  • (12) We've developed a really good chutney made with fresh pineapple and when you put it with gammon it's bloody great.
  • (13) Ageing prison population graphic Several prisoners, who are acting as carers for the frailer, older inmates, collect and serve them their supper (gammon and pineapple) first, before returning to collect their own.
  • (14) Moor Sands has a small off-shore rock stack to swim out to and you can also seek out sandy Elender Cove, nestled in the corner of Gammon Head, half a mile to the east.
  • (15) He appears on ESPN with Peter Gammons to tell the tale, and also accuses the SI writer Selena Roberts of stalking him , a charge she denies.
  • (16) Unsurprisingly he is a fan of his product, which comes in more than 100 varieties including sausages, bacon, gammon steaks and chorizo, together with Swedish meatballs and German Frankfurters, specially crafted for overseas markets.
  • (17) He can even make a list of birds' names seem marvellous: Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.

Stem


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Alt. of Steem
  • (n.) Alt. of Steem
  • (n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
  • (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
  • (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
  • (n.) A branch of a family.
  • (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; the bow.
  • (n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
  • (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
  • (n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
  • (n.) The entire central axis of a feather.
  • (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
  • (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
  • (n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
  • (v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
  • (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
  • (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
  • (v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
  • (2) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (3) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
  • (4) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (5) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
  • (6) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
  • (7) Following BHT administration, the alveolar stem cells (type II pneumocytes) proliferate and differentiate according to a biphasic pattern, with proliferative peaks at d 3 and 7.
  • (8) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
  • (9) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
  • (10) These results indicate that this population (approximately 0.1% of bone marrow) may contain the pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell.
  • (11) Brain-stem CBF varied the most but did not correlate with clinical signs of brain-stem dysfunction.
  • (12) We infer from these results that endotoxin ameliorates the cyclical changes in blood cell counts by regulating hematopoietic proliferative activity at the stem cell level.
  • (13) The effects of inhibitors of aldehyde dehydrogenase activity on the sensitivity of murine pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells to oxazaphosphorine anticancer agents, e.g.
  • (14) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
  • (15) This has stemmed from an inadequate understanding of the mechanisms involved in the formation and propagation of this condition.
  • (16) We therefore think that the detailed examination of CALLA(-) non-T non-B ALL cells using myeloid specific antibodies is helpful in clarifying the characteristics of myeloid precursors and the common bipotential stem cell of lymphoid and myeloid progenitors.
  • (17) Imaging studies had shown no change in his brain stem lesion, which at autopsy was found to be a focal collection of fibrillary astrocytes.
  • (18) These cells were hypothesized to be the stem cells for the corneal epithelium.
  • (19) Auditory brain stem potentials (ABP) were recorded in 27 patients with Bell's palsy during the early phase of the disease and 1-3 months later.
  • (20) The results indicate that stimulation of trigeminal subnucleus caudalis, a brain stem region that processes nociceptor afferent information, evokes a prompt increase in plasma ACTH.