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stem

English

🔊 the tube of a tobacco pipe
🔊 a turn made in skiing
🔊 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
🔊 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”
🔊 remove the stem from
“for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed”
🔊 stop the flow of a liquid
“staunch the blood flow”
🔊 grow out of, have roots in, originate in
“The increase in the national debt stems from the last war”
🔊 cause to point inward
“stem your skis”