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English

Pronunciation


Etymology 1

Noun

  1. The longish piece that supports the seed-carrying parts of a plant.


Translations
  • Chinese: 莖, 茎
  • Chinese Characters: 莖, 茎
  • Dutch: {{t-|nl|steel|m}}, {{t-|nl|stengel|m}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|tige|f}}
  • German: Stiel ; Stängel , Stengel
  • Greek: {{t+|el|μίσχος|m|sc=Grek}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|gambo|m}}
  • Japanese: 茎 (くき, kuki)
  • Korean: 그루 (geuru), 줄기 (julgi)
  • Kurdish: {{t+|ku|bistîk|f}}
  • Serbian: stabljika
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|tallo|m}}

Etymology 2

Verb

  1. To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
  2. To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.


Related terms


Translations
  • Finnish: ,
  • French:

Etymology 3

Verb

  1. To walk haughtily.


Translations
  • Finnish:

Category:Botany Category:English words with multiple etymologies Category:Gaits

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stalk \Stalk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stalked (st[add]kt); p. pr.
& vb. n. Stalking.] [AS. staelcan, stealcian to go slowly;
cf. stealc high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably
akin to 1st stalk.]
1. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy,
noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive
pronoun. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Into the chamber he stalked him full still.
--Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's
fiend,
Pressing to be employed. --Dryden.
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2. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of
approaching game; to proceed under cover.
[1913 Webster]

The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led
horse; . . . "I must stalk," said he. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]

One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.
--Drayton.
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3. To walk with high and proud steps; -- usually implying the
affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word
is used, however, especially by the poets, to express
dignity of step.
[1913 Webster]

With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

Then stalking through the deep,
He fords the ocean. --Addison.
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I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he
has long stalked alone and unchallenged. --Merivale.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stalk \Stalk\ (st[add]k), n. [OE. stalke, fr. AS. stael, stel, a
stalk. See Stale a handle, Stall.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of
wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
(b) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which resembles the stalk of a plant, as the stem of
a quill. --Grew.
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3. (Arch.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling
the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices
spring.
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4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.]
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To climb by the rungs and the stalks. --Chaucer.
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5. (Zool.)
(a) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and
crinoids.
(b) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a
hymenopterous insect.
(c) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
[1913 Webster]

6. (Founding) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core
to strengthen it; a core arbor.
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Stalk borer (Zool.), the larva of a noctuid moth ({Gortyna
nitela}), which bores in the stalks of the raspberry,
strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other garden plants,
often doing much injury.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stalk \Stalk\ (st[add]k), v. t.
1. To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for
the purpose of killing, as game.
[1913 Webster]

As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is
cruelly like to stalking a deer. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To follow (a person) persistently, with or without
attempts to evade detection; as, the paparazzi stalk
celebrities to get candid photographs; obsessed fans may
stalk their favorite movie stars.
[PJC]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stalk \Stalk\, n.
1. A high, proud, stately step or walk.
[1913 Webster]

Thus twice before, . . .
With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
--Shak.
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The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped.
--Spenser.
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2. The act or process of stalking.

When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and
ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.
--T.
Roosevelt.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet stalk
n 1: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of
stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
[syn: chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble]
2: a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or
fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stem]
3: a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush
[syn: stalking, still hunt]
4: the act of following prey stealthily [syn: stalking]
5: a stiff or threatening gait [syn: angry walk]
v 1: walk stiffly
2: follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;
"her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother
haunted her" [syn: haunt]
3: go through (an area) in search of prey; "stalk the woods for
deer"
Moby Dictionary
Maypole , amble , anthrophore , axis , baluster , balustrade , banister ,
bar , barge , base , beat , bole , bowl along , bundle , campaign , cane ,
carpophore , caryatid , caudex , caulicle , caulis , chase , circuit ,
clump , colonnade , column , couch , course , creep , culm , dado , die ,
dog , domiciliary visit , drag , dragnet , drive , droop , excursion ,
expedition , exploration , falcon , flagstaff , flounce , flush , follow ,
follow a clue , follow the hounds , follow up , foot , footslog ,
footstalk , forage , fowl , frisk , funicule , funiculus , gait , gallop ,
go hunting , grand tour , gumshoe , gun , halt , haulm , haunt , hawk ,
hippety-hop , hitch , hobble , hop , hound , house-search , hunt ,
hunt down , hunting , jack , jacklight , jaunt , jog , jolt , journey ,
jump , junket , lay wait , leafstalk , lie in wait , limp , lock step ,
lumber , lunge , lurch , lurk , mince , mincing steps , newel-post ,
nightwalk , nose , nose out , outing , pace , package tour , paddle ,
peacock , pedestal , pedicel , peduncle , peg , peregrination ,
perquisition , petiole , petiolule , petiolus , piaffe , piaffer , pier ,
pilaster , pile , pilgrimage , piling , pillar , pleasure trip , plinth ,
plod , pole , posse , post , prance , probe , progress , prowl ,
prowl after , pursue , pussyfoot , queen-post , quest , rack ,
ransacking , reed , ride to hounds , rod , roll , round trip ,
rubberneck tour , rummage , run , run down , run to earth , safari ,
sally , sashay , saunter , scape , scuff , scuffle , scuttle , search ,
search party , search warrant , search-and-destroy operation ,
searching , seedstalk , shadow , shaft , shamble , shikar , shoot ,
shuffle , sidle , single-foot , skip , skulk , slink , slither , slog ,
slouch , slowness , smell out , sneak , sniff out , socle , spear , spike ,
spire , sport , staff , stagger , stalking , stamp , stanchion , stand ,
standard , start , steal , stem , step , stick , still hunt , still-hunt ,
stipe , stock , stomp , straddle , straggle , straw , stride , stroll ,
strolling gait , strut , stump , subbase , surbase , swagger , swank ,
swash , swashbuckle , swing , tail , tigella , tiptoe , tittup , toddle ,
tongue , totem pole , totter , tour , trace , trace down , track ,
track down , trail , traipse , tread , trek , trip , trot , trudge , trunk ,
turn , turning over , upright , velocity , voyage , waddle , walk ,
wamble , wiggle , wobble


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