stem to stern
Front to back
Stem to stern means from one end to the other, covering everything completely.
The phrase comes from shipbuilding—the stem is a ship's bow timber, the stern its rear.
It describes thorough examination or comprehensive scope: We searched the house stem to stern, The report covers the project stem to stern.
Sometimes appears as from stem to stern.
- bowRespectful forward inclination
- hullOuter covering or frame
- deckShip's flat surface
- poop deckHighest deck aft
- keelHull's structural base
mast · nautical · ship · vessel · fore · fore and aft · aft · complete · thorough · entirely · top to bottom · from top to bottom · inside out · wholly · leave no stone unturned · soup to nuts · the whole nine yards · port
- end-to-end phrasesfront to back, end to end, nose to tail, bumper to bumper, beginning to end
- Nautical Idiomsbatten down the hatches, all hands on deck, smooth sailing, three sheets to the wind, in the same boat
- completenesscomplete, completely, entire, totally, total
stem to sternpartially
To an incomplete extent
in part · incompletely · halfway · piecemeal · partly
stem to sternsuperficially
At surface level only
cursorily · perfunctorily · hastily · sketchily · summarily
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