Defenition of the word stem

• Defenition of the word stem

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

Synonyms for the word stem

• • base
  • bow
  • fore
  • halt
  • prow
  • radical
  • root
  • root word
  • shank
  • stalk
  • stanch
  • staunch
  • theme

Meronymys for the word stem

• • anchor
  • grip
  • ground tackle
  • handgrip
  • handle
  • hold
  • key
  • nail
  • pin
  • pipe
  • receptacle
  • tobacco pipe
  • vessel
  • watercraft
  • wineglass

Hyponyms for the word stem

• • axis
  • beanstalk
  • bole
  • branch
  • bulb
  • cane
  • carpophore
  • caudex
  • cladode
  • cladophyll
  • corm
  • corn stalk
  • cornstalk
  • culm
  • cutting
  • filament
  • flower stalk
  • funicle
  • funiculus
  • gynophore
  • halm
  • haulm
  • leafstalk
  • petiole
  • petiolule
  • phylloclad
  • phylloclade
  • rhizome
  • rootstalk
  • rootstock
  • scape
  • slip
  • sporangiophore
  • stipe
  • stock
  • tree trunk
  • trunk
  • tuber

Hypernyms for the word stem

• • check
  • cylinder
  • descriptor
  • form
  • front
  • orient
  • originate in
  • plant organ
  • remove
  • signifier
  • take
  • take away
  • tube
  • tubing
  • turn
  • turning
  • withdraw
  • word form

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