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  2. Stem (ship) - Wikipedia

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    The most forward and lowest curved part of the ship is the stem (not normally the extended part beyond the hull). The bow of the oil and chemical tanker Bro Elizabeth in dry dock in Brest, France. This ship does not have a stem. The stem is the most forward part of a boat or ship's bow [1] and is an extension of the keel itself. It is often ...

  3. Sound (nautical) - Wikipedia

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    In nautical terms, the word sound is used to describe the process of determining the depth of water in a tank or under a ship. Tanks are sounded to determine if they are full (for cargo tanks) or empty (to determine if a ship has been holed) and for other reasons.

  4. Glossary of nautical terms - Wikipedia

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  5. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Also ship's magazine. The ammunition storage area aboard a warship. magnetic bearing An absolute bearing using magnetic north. magnetic north The direction towards the North Magnetic Pole. Varies slowly over time. maiden voyage The first voyage of a ship in its intended role, i.e. excluding trial trips. Maierform bow A V-shaped bow introduced in the late 1920s which allowed a ship to maintain ...

  6. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...

  7. Deadwood (shipbuilding) - Wikipedia

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    Deadwood is the lower part of a ship's stem or stern. Deadwood (Labelled "3") Starboard view of rudder, sternpost, and deadwood, showing chains that prevent dredge cable from snagging between rudder and sternpost

  8. Word stem - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning. Typically, a stem remains unmodified during inflection with few exceptions due to apophony (for example in Polish, miast-o ("city") and w mieść-e ("in the city"); in English, sing, sang, and sung, where it can be modified according to morphological rules or peculiarities, such as sandhi).

  9. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Nouns are given in their nominative case, with the genitive case supplied in parentheses when its stem differs from that of the nominative. (For some languages, especially Sanskrit, the basic stem is given in place of the nominative.) Verbs are given in their "dictionary form". The exact form given depends on the specific language: