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stem

/stɛm/

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noun
cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
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shank

type of:
cylinder

part of:
anchor grip ground tackle handgrip handle hold key nail pin wineglass
noun
a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
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stalk

type of:
plant organ
verb
stop the flow of a liquid
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"stem the tide"

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halt stanch staunch

type of:
check
noun
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
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"thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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base radical root root word theme

type of:
word form descriptor signifier form
noun
a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
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stem turn

type of:
turn turning
noun
front part of a vessel or aircraft
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bow fore prow

type of:
front

part of:
vessel watercraft
verb
cause to point inward
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"stem your skis"

type of:
orient
verb
grow out of, have roots in, originate in
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"The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"

type of:
originate in
verb
remove the stem from
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"for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

type of:
withdraw remove take take away
noun
the tube of a tobacco pipe
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type of:
tubing tube

part of:
pipe tobacco pipe

Examples of stem

"stem the tide"
"thematic vowels are part of the stem"
"stem your skis"
"The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
"for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"