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Stem   /stɛm/   Listen
Stem

noun
1.
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.  Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, theme.
2.
A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ.  Synonym: stalk.
3.
Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something.  Synonym: shank.
4.
The tube of a tobacco pipe.
5.
Front part of a vessel or aircraft.  Synonyms: bow, fore, prow.
6.
A turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it.  Synonym: stem turn.
verb
1.
Grow out of, have roots in, originate in.
2.
Cause to point inward.
3.
Stop the flow of a liquid.  Synonyms: halt, stanch, staunch.  "Stem the tide"
4.
Remove the stem from.



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"Stem" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Olaf, great stem of kings, attend!" he heard a deep voice call; and, looking up, the dreamer seemed to see before him "a great and important man, but ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... one of them said, "Now she's going down. Let's go and sit in the first-class saloon." And they did. How touching! How sublime! How English! The Titanic sinks. With a roar the machinery crashes from stem to bow. Dust on the water, cries on the water, then vacuity and silence. The East has swept over this colony of the West. And still its generations pass on, rhythmically swinging; slaves of Nature, not, as in the West, ...
— Appearances - Being Notes of Travel • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
... Plate 20 is quite simple, and presents no resemblance to the elaborate gear of Plate LX, in which the ornament of a leaf (?), or more probably feather, cross-hatched at the end and divided symmetrically by a stem (?) or quill about which four dots ...
— Studies in Central American Picture-Writing • Edward S. Holden
... of a lump of coal will present impressions, which are obviously those of the stem, or leaves, of a plant; but though hard mineral masses of pyrites, and even fine mud, may occur here and there, neither sand nor ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... made round at stem and stern like the Dutch boats. The word is still used in some English ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli


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