stalk
The stem or main axis of a plantThe stem or main axis of a plant.
» I didn't know who was stalking me.
Значення
значень: 14The stem or main axis of a plant.
a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp
Strunk, Stiel, Stängel
сте́бельstébelʹ, стебло́stebló
стебло́stebló, сте́бельstébelʹ
The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
grape stalks
Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
Holm
A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
(сленг)The penis.
A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- a stiff or threatening gait
- the act of following prey stealthily
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
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речень: 141I didn't know who was stalking me.
Tom didn't know who was stalking him.
Tom says that someone has been stalking him.
Tom says that somebody has been stalking him.
The last thing Tom needs is someone else stalking him.
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From Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *steFrom Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *stealuc, from Proto-West Germanic *staluk, *stalik, from Proto-Germanic *stalukaz, *stalikaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *stalô, *staluz (“support, stem, stalk”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, stand; be stiff; stud, post, trunk, stake, stem, stalk”).
From Middle English stalken, from Old English *stealcian (as in bestealcian (“to move stealthily”), stealcung (“stalking”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stalukōn, from Proto-Germanic *stalukōną (“to stalk, move stealthily”) (compare Dutch stelkeren, stolkeren (“to tip-toe, tread carefully”), Danish stalke (“to high step, stalk”), Norwegian dialectal stalka (“to trudge”)), from *stalkaz, *stelkaz (compare Old English stealc (“steep”), Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr (“knot (bird), red sandpiper”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telg, *(s)tolg- (compare Middle Irish tolg (“strength”), Lithuanian stalgùs (“stiff, defiant, proud”)).
Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from Old English stealc (“steep”), from Proto-Germanic *stelkaz, *stalkaz (“high, lofty, steep, stiff”); see above.
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множина: stalksСиноніми
синонімів: 10- a stiff or threatening gait:angry walk
- the act of following prey stealthily:stalking
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush:stalkingstill hunt
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ:stem
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds:chaffhuskshuckstrawstubble