DISAMBIGUATION

Computing

(computer science), a placeholder

Base Address Register in PCI

, a mobile phone form factor

, a type of graphical control element

Science and technology

(river morphology), a deposit of sediment

(tropical cyclone), a layer of

(unit), a unit of pressure

BAR domain, a protein domain

stock, of metal

Sandbar

and drink

(establishment), selling alcoholic beverages

Candy

Chocolate

Law

(law), the legal profession

association

examination

(diacritic), a line through a letter

Bavarian (ISO 639-3: )

Vertical , a punctuation symbol

X- theory, in linguistics

Devices

Birch rod, made out of twigs from birch or other trees for corporal punishment

Ceremonial rod, used to indicate a position of authority

Connecting rod, main, coupling, or side rod, in a reciprocating engine

Control rod, used to control the rate of fission in a nuclear reactor

Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find in a practice known as dowsing

Fishing rod, a used to catch , like a long pole with a hook on the end

Lightning rod, a conductor on top of a building to protect the building in the event of lightning by taking the charge harmlessly to

Measuring rod, a kind of ruler

Switch (corporal punishment), a piece of wood as used as a staff or for corporal punishment, or a bundle of switches

Truss rod, a steel part inside a guitar neck used for its tension adjustment

Science and technology

Cuisenaire rods, to teach children arithmetics

Rod-shaped bacterium, a shape of bacteria as E. coli

Rod (optical phenomenon), a photographic artifact claimed by some to alien

Rod (unit), Imperial unit of length, also known as the pole or perch

Rod , a found in the retina that is sensitive to /dark (black/white)

Real- outbreak and disease surveillance (RODS)

rod, ISO 639-3 code for the Rogo of Nigeria

Rate of descent (RoD), a measurement in aviation.

Objects

Pipe (fluid conveyance), a hollow cylinder following certain dimension rules

Piping, the use of pipes in industry

Smoking pipe

Tobacco pipe

Half-pipe and quarter pipe, semi-circular ramps for performing skateboarding/snowboarding tricks

Piping (sewing), tubular ornamental fabric sewn around the edge of a garment.

Pipe (instrument), a traditional perforated wind instrument

Bagpipe, a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds

Pipes and drums or pipe bands, composed of musicians who play the Scottish and Irish bagpipes

Organ pipe, one of the tuned resonators that produces the main of a pipe organ

Pan pipes, see Pan flute, ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe

Piped , or elevator , a type of background

Computing

Pipeline (Unix)

Anonymous pipe and named pipe, a one-way communication channel used for inter-process communication

PHY Interface for PCI Express (PIPE), the of a specification for the PCI Express physical layer

Yahoo! Pipes

sspipes.scr, a screensaver for Microsoft Windows

PIPE Networks, Australian company primarily involved in setting peering exchanges

Technology

Pipe (casting), a type of metal-casting defect

Boatswain's pipe, instrument used for signalling or to issue commands on a warship

PIPES, a common buffer used in chemistry and biology laboratory work

Pipe (car), a Belgian automobile manufacturer

Other uses

Pipe (letter), the IPA letter for a dental click

Pipe (unit) or butt, a cask measurement for wine barrels

Volcanic pipe, a , narrow cone of solidified magma

Pole

Staff, a weapon used in stick-fighting

Quarterstaff, a European pole weapon

Staff of office, a pole that indicates a position

Staff (railway signalling), a token authorizing a locomotive driver to use a particular stretch of single track

Level staff, also called levelling rod, a graduated rod for comparing heights

staff, a staff of wood or metal and Kevlar, used for dancing and performance

Flagstaff, on which a is flown

Scout staff, a tall pole traditionally used by Boy Scouts, which has a number of uses in emergency

Pilgrim's staff, a walking stick used by pilgrims during their pilgrimages.

Mathematics

Branch, in graph theory, a is a sequence of edges connecting nodes in a graph or

Branch, in set theory, a maximal chain in a .

Branch (academia), academic sub-discipline

Branch (bridle), a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank

Branch (computer science), a point in a computer program where program-flow may change depending on a condition

Branch (hieroglyph), a member of the trees and plants hieroglyphs

Thin elongated objects

Twig

The weapon used in stick fighting

Walking stick, a device to facilitate balancing while walking

Shepherd's crook

Swagger stick

Digging stick

Swizzle stick, used to stir drinks

Sports

Bandy stick, used in bandy

Cue stick, used in pool, snooker and carom billiards

Hockey stick, used in hockey

Field hockey stick

Ice hockey stick

Lacrosse stick, used in lacrosse

Drum stick, used to strike drums

Part of a bow used to play a instrument

Chapman Stick, electric musical instrument in the guitar family

Percussion stick, a struck percussion instrument.

Transportation

Stick or stick shift, automobile's manual transmission

Gear stick, used in a manual transmission-equipped automobile to change gears

Control or centre stick, aircraft cockpit arrangement

Pretzel sticks, pub snacks

Breadstick, dry baked bread

sticks, processed

Crab stick, seafood

Mozzarella sticks, hors d'oeuvre

Musk stick, confection

Cinnamon sticks, spice

Plant structures

Plant stem, a plant's aboveground axis, made of vascular tissue, off which leaves and flowers hang

Stipe (botany), a stalk to support some other structure

Stipe (mycology), the stem of a mushroom under the cap

Stem (vine), part of a grapevine

(botany), the woody stem of a

Education

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), a broad term used in curricula and policy

STEM.org, educational publisher and service

Stem, a multiple choice question lede (excluding the options)

and writing

Word stem, the part of a word common to all its inflected variants

Stemming, a process in natural processing

Stem (typography), the main vertical stroke of a letter

Stem (), a part of a written musical note

Man-made objects

Stem (), the upright member mounted on the forward end of a vessel's keel, to which the strakes are attached

Stem (bicycle part), connects the handlebars to the steer tube of a bicycle fork

Stem (glass), the stem of a drinking glass

Stem, part of a watch

Crack stem, a device for smoking crack cocain

and audio

Stem (audio), a collection of audio sources mixed together to dealt with downstream as one unit

Stem (), a part of a written musical note

Stem mixing and mastering, a method of mixing audio material

The Stems, Australian garage rock/power pop from the 1980s

Science and technology

See also: § Plant structures, and § and audio

Stem , undifferentiated biological that can differentiate into specialized cells

Stem , of a clade (in biological classification), consists of extinct organisms more closely related to the than to any other extant clade

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, a grouping of academic disciplines capitalized as STEM

Scanning transmission electron microscopy, a type of microscopy

Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler, software developed by IBM

Stem, part of a compound variable in the Rexx computer programming

Main stem of a river