stem - Meaning in Tamil

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stem - Meaning in Tamil

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Definitions and Meaning of stem in English

stem noun

1. 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

2. front part of a vessel or aircraft

   Synonyms

   bow, bow, fore, prow

   படகின் முன்பகுதி, ...Subscribe

   Example

   • "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
3. cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

   Synonyms

   shank, shank

4. the tube of a tobacco pipe
5. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

   Synonyms

   base, base, radical, root word, root, root, theme

   Example

   • "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
6. a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

   Synonyms

   stalk, stalk

stem verb

1. remove the stem from

   Example

   • "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
2. stop the flow of a liquid

   Synonyms

   halt, stanch, staunch

   Examples

   • "staunch the blood flow"
   • "stem the tide"
3. grow out of, have roots in, originate in

   Example

   • "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
4. cause to point inward

   Example

   • "stem your skis"

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