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Word: stem
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Meaning:
acronym:
- scanning transmission electron microscope
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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Noun:
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogue the shaft of a feather.
- botany The above-ground stalk (''technically'' axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- linguistic morphology The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- music A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.
- nautical The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- typography A vertical stroke of a letter.
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Verb:
- obsolete To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
- skiing To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To descend in a family line.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- To take out the stem from.
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