stem

phonetic symbol: / stém / 

stem - English Dictionary

[ 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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