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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



... that he was remote from all observation, he pressed into a little copse, and there reclined on the grass, leaning against the stem of a tree. The moon was now hidden from him, but by looking upward he could see its light upon a long, faint cloud, and the blue of the placid sky. His mood was one of ineffable peace. Only thoughts of beautiful things came into his ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing
... accepted the purple from the assassins of Domitian, before he discovered that his feeble age was unable to stem the torrent of public disorders, which had multiplied under the long tyranny of his predecessor. His mild disposition was respected by the good; but the degenerate Romans required a more vigorous character, whose justice should strike terror into ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... because it was for me, had brought all his skill into play. He had fished out a length of old net from his stores, and turned it to great account. He had draped it in folds over Gray Robin's broad flanks, and brought it round his chest, and wherever the threads would hold a stem he had stuck in red and white and yellow roses, and had tied bunches of them at his ears and along his bridle, so that the steady old horse looked like an ancient charger ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... is to be yours. Do not become too eager to pluck it from its parent stem, I must have my dear girl with me for at least one winter. In the spring she ...
— Lizzy Glenn - or, The Trials of a Seamstress • T. S. Arthur
... be a race between the storm, and our getting behind Sturgeon Island," said Giraffe, as he turned alternately from stem to stern of the boat, evidently trying to figure out what sort of chance they might have for ...
— The, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island - or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers • Herbert Carter


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