Stern

[stɜːn] or [stɝn]

Definition

(noun.) the rear part of a ship.

(noun.) United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920).

(adj.) severe and unremitting in making demands; 'an exacting instructor'; 'a stern disciplinarian'; 'strict standards' .

Typist: Ollie--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The black tern.

(superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.

(v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.

(v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.

(v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.

(v. t.) The hinder part of anything.

(v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.

(a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

Editor: Lucia

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Forbidding, austere, severe, rigid.[2]. Harsh, cruel, bitter, rigorous, strict, hard, unrelenting, inflexible, uncompromising.

n. Hinder part (of a vessel).

Editor: Louise

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Severe, austere, rigid, harsh, strict, rigorous, unrelenting, unyielding,forbidding

ANT:Lenient, genial, kindly, easy, flexible, encouraging

Typist: Paul

Definition

adj. severe of countenance manner or feeling: austere: harsh: unrelenting: steadfast.—adv. Stern′ly.—n. Stern′ness.

n. the hind-part of a vessel: the rump or tail of an animal.—v.t. to back a boat to row backward.—ns. Stern′age (Shak.) the steerage or stern of a ship; Stern′board backward motion of a ship: loss of way in tacking; Stern′-chase a chase in which one ship follows directly in the wake of another; Stern′-chās′er a cannon in the stern of a ship.—adj. Sterned having a stern of a specified kind.—ns. Stern′-fast a rope or chain for making fast a ship's stern to a wharf &c.; Stern′-frame the sternpost transoms and fashion-pieces of a ship's stern.—adj. Stern′most farthest astern.—ns. Stern′port a port or opening in the stern of a ship; Stern′post the aftermost timber of a ship which supports the rudder; Stern′sheets the part of a boat between the stern and the rowers; Stern′son the hinder extremity of a ship's keelson to which the sternpost is bolted; Stern′way the backward motion of a vessel; Stern′-wheel′er (U.S.) a small vessel with one large paddle-wheel at the stern.

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