Definition of Stem
Noun
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a turn made in skiing
the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- stem turn -
front part of a vessel or aircraft
"he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
bow fore prow -
the tube of a tobacco pipe
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cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
shank -
a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
stalk -
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
"thematic vowels are part of the stem"
root - root word base theme radical
Verb
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remove the stem from
"for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
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stop the flow of a liquid
"staunch the blood flow"
"stem the tide"
stanch staunch halt -
cause to point inward
"stem your skis"
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grow out of, have roots in, originate in
"The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
Word games points for the Stem
- Scrabble® score of the stem (6)
- Word Chums® score of the stem (8)
- Words With Friends® score of the stem (7)
Unscramble stem
15 unscramble word found using the letters stem.
em, ems, es, est, et, me, mes, met, mets, set, st, stem, te, tems, tes,