stem | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it | Synonyms: stem turn |
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(noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, fore, prow |
(noun) the tube of a tobacco pipe | - |
(noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something | Synonyms: shank |
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, theme |
(noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ | Synonyms: stalk |
(verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, staunch |
(verb) remove the stem from | - |
(verb) grow out of, have roots in, originate in | - |
(verb) cause to point inward | - |
stemless | (adjective) not having a stem | - |
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(adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: acaulescent |
stemma | (noun) an eye having a single lens | Synonyms: ocellus, simple eye |
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(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock |
(noun) a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work | - |
stemmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a textual stemma | - |
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stemmatics | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatology |
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stemmatology | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatics |
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stemmed | (adjective) having a stem or stems or having a stem as specified; often used in combination | - |
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(adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, cauline |
(adjective) having the stem removed | - |
stemmer | (noun) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) | - |
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(noun) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge | - |
(noun) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem | Synonyms: stemming algorithm |
(noun) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers | - |
(noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: sprigger, stripper |