stem

stem is a 4-letter English word with 28 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Steem. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 28 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. Alt. of Steem
2. noun. Alt. of Steem
3. noun. The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
4. noun. A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
5. noun. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
6. noun. A branch of a family.
7. noun. A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
8. noun. Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
9. noun. Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
10. noun. That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
11. noun. The entire central axis of a feather.
12. noun. The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
13. noun. The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
14. noun. The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
15. transitive verb. To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
16. transitive verb. To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
17. transitive verb. To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
18. intransitive verb. To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
19. noun. a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
20. noun. front part of a vessel or aircraft

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

    Synonyms: bow, fore, prow

21. noun. cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

    Synonyms: shank

22. noun. the tube of a tobacco pipe
23. noun. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

    "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

    Synonyms: base, radical, root, theme

24. noun. a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

    Synonyms: stalk

25. verb. remove the stem from

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

26. verb. stop the flow of a liquid

    "staunch the blood flow"

    "stem the tide"

    Synonyms: halt, stanch, staunch

27. verb. grow out of, have roots in, originate in

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

28. verb. cause to point inward

    "stem your skis"

Synonyms

bow, fore, prow, shank, base, radical, root, theme, stalk, halt, stanch, staunch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stem:

mest, mets

Common word forms

stems, stemmed, stemmer, stemless, stemming

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