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Stiel — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • handle noun The part of an object that is designed to be gripped by hand.
  • scantling noun The fixed size that a piece of wood, stone or building material must be cut to.
  • stalk noun The stem of a plant, or a similar stem-like part.
  • stem noun The main stalk of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, or fruit.
  • timber noun Wood that has been cut and prepared for building.

Senses

Stiel is used for these senses in English:

  • handle The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
  • scantling A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.
  • stalk The stem or main axis of a plant.
  • stalk (mathematics, sheaf theory) 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 \mathcal{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 w:Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • stem A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
  • stem A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
  • timber (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.

handle — full definition

  1. noun The part of an object that is designed to be gripped by hand.
  2. noun A username or nickname someone uses online or over radio.
  3. verb To touch, hold, or manage something with the hands.
  4. verb To deal with or cope with a situation, person, or emotion.

scantling — full definition

  1. noun The fixed size that a piece of wood, stone or building material must be cut to.
  2. noun A small amount of something.
  3. noun A short, narrow beam of wood used when building something.
  4. noun Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.
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