stem
/stem/
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Definition
Noun:
- A main structural part of a plant: The slender, elongated structure that supports leaves, flowers, or fruits, and transports fluids.
- A long, thin supporting or connecting part: The cylindrical or narrow section of an object, such as the tube of a pipe or the shaft of a glass.
- The main part of a word: (Linguistics) The base form of a word to which prefixes or suffixes can be added.
- The forwardmost part of a ship or boat: The structure at the very front of a vessel.
Verb:
- To originate or arise from: To have something as its source or cause.
- To stop or restrict the flow of something: To dam up or restrain the progress of a liquid or a trend.
- To remove the stem from: To detach the main stalk from a fruit, leaf, or flower.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- The rose has a thorny stem.
- In the word "unhappiness," the stem is "happy."
- The ship's stem cut through the waves.
Verb:
- Many of the region's problems stem from economic inequality.
- The crew worked to stem the leak in the hull.
- Please stem the cherries before adding them to the salad.
Advanced Usage
"To stem the tide": To try to stop or control a powerful force or trend.
- The new policy aims to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
In linguistics, "stemming": The process of reducing inflected words to their word stem.
- Search engines often use stemming to find all forms of a word.
Variants and Related Words
- Stemless (adj): Lacking a stem.
- Stemware (n): Drinking glasses with a stem, like wine glasses.
- Stem cell (n): A biological cell that can differentiate into other cell types.
Synonyms
- Noun: Stalk, trunk, shaft, origin, root.
- Verb: Originate, arise, derive, stop, halt, check.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Stem from: To originate from or be caused by.
- His fear of dogs stems from a childhood incident.
Related Idioms
- From stem to stern: From the front to the back of a ship; completely or throughout.
- They cleaned the yacht from stem to stern.
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