| noun | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed “thematic vowels are part of the stem” |
| noun | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
| noun | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something |
| noun | the tube of a tobacco pipe |
| noun | front part of a vessel or aircraft “he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line” |
| noun | a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it |
| verb | grow out of, have roots in, originate in “The increase in the national debt stems from the last war” |
| verb | cause to point inward “stem your skis” |
| verb | stop the flow of a liquid “staunch the blood flow” |
| verb | remove the stem from “for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed” |
| stem | verb | remove the stem from |
| stem | noun | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed |
| halt | noun | the event of something ending |
| stemmer | noun | an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem |