Synonyms for stem
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stemverb

   Synonyms:
   oppose, breast, withstand, obstruct, confront

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1. root, root word, base, stem, theme, radicalnoun

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

   "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

   Synonyms:
   al-Qaeda, idea, groundwork, al-Qaida, ascendent, base, substructure, composition, paper, fundament, motif, prow, theme, ascendant, basis, group, understructure, shank, stalk, nucleotide, report, foundation, etymon, radical, root, subject, floor, bow, fore, topic, free radical, melodic theme, source, ancestor, foot, antecedent, musical theme, infrastructure, alkali, cornerstone, origin, pedestal, home, rootage, tooth root, base of operations, radix, root word, stand, stem turn, solution, beginning, chemical group, al-Qa'ida, bag

2. stalk, stemnoun

   a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

   Synonyms:
   shank, straw, bow, radical, still hunt, stem turn, stalk, shuck, chaff, base, theme, husk, angry walk, root, stalking, fore, prow, stubble, root word

3. shank, stemnoun

   cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

   Synonyms:
   bow, root, theme, stalk, root word, stem turn, cannon, waist, base, shank, fore, radical, prow

4. stemnoun

   the tube of a tobacco pipe

   Synonyms:
   root, theme, stalk, root word, stem turn, bow, base, shank, fore, radical, prow

5. bow, fore, prow, stemnoun

   front part of a vessel or aircraft

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

   Synonyms:
   curtain call, arc, bow, bowing, radical, fore, stem turn, stalk, base, obeisance, bowknot, prow, root, theme, shank, root word

6. stem turn, stemverb

   a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

   Synonyms:
   root, theme, stalk, root word, stem turn, bow, base, shank, fore, radical, prow

7. stemverb

   grow out of, have roots in, originate in

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

   Synonyms:
   halt, stanch, staunch

8. stemverb

   cause to point inward

   "stem your skis"

   Synonyms:
   halt, stanch, staunch

9. stem, stanch, staunch, haltverb

   stop the flow of a liquid

   "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide"

   Synonyms:
   stop, block, kibosh, halt, stanch, staunch, arrest, hold

10. stemverb

    remove the stem from

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

    Synonyms:
    halt, stanch, staunch

Matched Categories

1. • Check
   • Cylinder
   • Front
   • Orient
   • Originate In
   • Plant Organ
   • Remove
   • Tube

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stemnoun

   Synonyms:
   trunk (of a tree), main stock

2. stemnoun

   Synonyms:
   peduncle, pedicel, petiole, stalk

3. stemnoun

   Synonyms:
   branch, shoot, scion

4. stemnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Naut.) forepart (of a ship), prow, beak, bow

5. stemnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Mus.) tail (of a note)

6. stemverb

   Synonyms:
   oppose (as a current), resist, breast, withstand, bear up against, make head against

7. stemverb

   Synonyms:
   stop, check

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stemnoun

   Synonyms:
   trunk, body, peduncle, pedicel, petiole, stalk, culm, root, etymon, radical, radix, theme

2. stemverb

   Synonyms:
   oppose, withstand, breast, resist, check

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1. List of paraphrases for "stem":

   strains, stems, stalk, rod, shoot, gan, curb, splint, spindle, pin, bole, mother, peduncle, strain, halt, trunk, contain, stop, dry, isolates, embryonic

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1. Standard Bank analysts:

   The market essentially expected more from the (central bank) yesterday in terms of offering to stem lira weakness and even its statement was deemed to be overly dovish.

2. Thomas Farley:

   We have n’t seen a public health emergency like this in the last century, it’s time for us to rethink our assumptions, and consider options we had n’t seen before. Unlike similar efforts by other cities, the injection sites would not need City Council approval because they would be privately run. According to Philadelphia Public Health drug-related overdose deaths began to spoke in 2015 with the presence of fetanyl. ( Fox News) The sites would give drug addicts a safe haven to shoot up and would offer sterile injection equipment, including needles, and Naloxone. Fox News would also give referrals to treatment centers, social services clinics and wound care facilities. The idea comes as a paradigm shift in the nation’s effort to stem the tide of opioid-related deaths.Seattle and New York have been among places that have mulled similar measures, but the efforts stalled because of either legal or bureaucratic hurdles. Canada and Europe have operated similar types of facilities for the last few decades.

3. Jace Oliverson:

   Doctors( were) saying he's 30 minutes, max, from dying, with so much pressure on his brain stem, there are some children that arrive in a very, very poor state, and Easton's state upon arrival was among the poorest I've seen.

4. Troy Littleton:

   These sort of ideas are built into the system, that it's very difficult to have a child and be a grad student, often create these sort of invisible barriers that we never even see, but they keep many women from entering STEM to begin with, having a policy where there's clear support laid out, that is not something you have to go dig up and find and fight for, that every student has access to, will be very helpful.

5. Kinneret Savitsky:

   The results exceeded our expectations, and validate BL-8040 as a highly differentiated stand-alone treatment for stem-cell collection.