STEM definition

(1) A turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

(2) Front part of a vessel or aircraft

"He pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"

(3) Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

(4) The tube of a tobacco pipe

(5) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

"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

(7) Remove the stem from

"For automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

(8) Stop the flow of a liquid

"Staunch the blood flow"

"Them the tide"

(9) Grow out of, have roots in, originate in

"The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"

(10) Cause to point inward

"Stem your skis"