[ noun ]
■ a turn made in skiing
■ the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
→
stem turn
[ noun ]
■ front part of a vessel or aircraft
→
bow
,
fore
,
prow
[ noun ]
■ cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
→
shank
[ noun ]
■ the tube of a tobacco pipe
[ noun ]
■ (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
e.g.)
・thematic vowels are part of the stem
→
base
,
radical
,
root
,
root word
,
theme
[ noun ]
■ a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
→
stalk
[ verb ]
■ remove the stem from
e.g.)
・for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed
[ verb ]
■ stop the flow of a liquid
e.g.)
・stem the tide
→
halt
,
stanch
,
staunch
[ verb ]
■ grow out of, have roots in, originate in
e.g.)
・The increase in the national debt stems from the last war
[ verb ]
■ cause to point inward
e.g.)
・stem your skis
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