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