stem

Meanings

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  • "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
• a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
• cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
• the tube of a tobacco pipe
• front part of a vessel or aircraft
• a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
• 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"
• stop the flow of a liquid
  • "stem the tide"
• remove the stem from
  • "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

Synonyms

base, bow, fore, halt, prow, radical, root, root word, shank, stalk, stanch, staunch, stem turn, theme