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1. root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical -- ((linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem").
2. stalk, stem -- (a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ).
3. shank, stem -- (cylinder forming a long narrow part of something).
4. stem -- (the tube of a tobacco pipe).
5. bow, fore, prow, stem -- (front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line").
6. stem turn, stem -- (a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it).

1. stem -- (grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war").
2. stem -- (cause to point inward; "stem your skis").
3. stem, stanch, staunch, halt -- (stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide").
4. stem -- (remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed").

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