English dictionary
stem
nounAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
noun
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
noun
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
noun
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
noun
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
noun
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
verb
- remove the stem from
verb
- stop the flow of a liquid
verb
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
verb
- cause to point inward
Example sentences
he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line
thematic vowels are part of the stem
for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed
staunch the blood flow
stem the tide
The increase in the national debt stems from the last war
stem your skis