Vad betyder stern på svenska och vad är definitionen av stern?

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stern betydelse and definition

0 severe, or showing disapproval:
- a stern look/warning/voice
- She is her own sternest critic.
- Journalists received a stern warning not to go anywhere near the battleship.
- The country's president is facing the sternest test of his authority since he came to power five years ago.
1 the back part of a ship or boat:
- The Red Ensign, the flag of the British Merchant Navy, is rarely seen these days except on the sterns of a few cruise liners and cross-Channel ferries.
2 a person's bottom (= the part of the body that you sit on)
3 severe:
- Sterner punishment may produce better behavior, but I doubt it.
4 the back end of a ship:
- A rope over the stern towed the little boat.

He devised the method, used ever since, of attaching an underwater cable to the sterns of the ships, and using tugs to tow them rapidly across calm seas, backwards.
When the bow began to rise we all cheered, but then we found that the stern had been crushed by the weight of water.
We reached the tip of Manhattan Island with a Staten Island ferry chasing our stern.
The 23-year-old skipper said he heard a loud crack from the stern before the boat sank.