Definition of Stem

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
• 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
  
• 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

• 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"
  stanch staunch halt
• 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"
  

• Scrabble® score of the stem (6)
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• Words With Friends® score of the stem (7)