幹 — meaning in English

English meaning

• stem noun The main stalk of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, or fruit.
• trunk verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.

Senses

幹 is used for these senses in English:

• 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.
• tree trunk (botany) The main structural member of a tree.
• trunk (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.

stem — full definition

1. noun The main stalk of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, or fruit.
2. noun A slender supporting part of an object, such as a wine glass or tobacco pipe.
3. noun The base form of a word to which endings are added.
4. verb To originate or arise from something.
5. verb To stop or hold back the flow or spread of something.

trunk — full definition

1. verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.
2. verb In telecoms, to carry many signals together over a shared set of lines.

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