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(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
thematic vowels are part of the stem
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a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
3.
cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
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the tube of a tobacco pipe
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front part of a vessel or aircraft
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a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
'stem' - used as a verb
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grow out of, have roots in, originate in
The increase in the national debt stems from the last war
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cause to point inward
stem your skis
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stop the flow of a liquid
10.
remove the stem from
for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed
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derived forms
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1. Stem / Plural
stems
2. Stem / Past
stemmed
3. Stem / Third Person
stems
4. Stem / Present Participle
stemming
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