stem

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

stems

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

stem

past (v2)

stemmed

past participle (v3)

stemmed

present participle

stemming

3rd person singular

stems

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

2. 2.A branch of a family.

   • This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.

3. 3.An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

   • Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.

4. 4.The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.

   • After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.
   • He had placed her upon the grass by now, her back resting against the stem of a huge tree. At her question he stepped back where he could the better see her face.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To be caused or derived; to originate.

   • The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
   • Weight stigma often stems from an idea that patients are at fault for their body size.

2. 2.To descend in a family line.

3. 3.To remove the stem from.

4. 4.To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

   • Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.

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Synonyms

• base
• root
• theme