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stem

noun
  1. a turn made in skiing
    stem turn
  2. front part of a vessel or aircraft
    forebowprow
  3. cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
    shank
  4. the tube of a tobacco pipe
  5. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
    “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
    radicalbaserootthemeroot word
  6. a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
    stalk
verb
  1. remove the stem from
    “for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed”
  2. stop the flow of a liquid
    staunchhaltstanch
  3. grow out of, have roots in, originate in
    “The increase in the national debt stems from the last war”
  4. cause to point inward
    “stem your skis”