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, stem, 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, stem, 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, stem

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, stem, 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, stem

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, stem

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

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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How to use stem in a sentence?

1. Dan Woynillowicz:

   You can't ignore the fact that there is more opportunity in Canada now does, in part, stem from the fact there were changes in government in Alberta and Ottawa.

2. Patricia Davidson:

   Sadly nursing is often regarded as ` women’s work ’ and sadly fails to recognize the science and intellectual depth of nursing as a STEM profession.

3. Leigh Turner:

   It seems likely that some clients of stem cell clinics are propelled by a mixture of hope and desperation.

4. James Brown:

   For instance, there is a low representation of African American students in engineering. Sometimes you have students who come from backgrounds where there isn’t a relative or a parent who is involved in engineering, so it’s important that these companies and organizations provide mentors who these students can look to and learn from, if these students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds have mentors to learn from, then they are more likely to look into STEM as a possibility, to be excited by STEM in school.

5. Andrew Pask:

   The technologies we are developing to de-extinct the thylacine all have immediate conservation benefits -- right now -- to protect marsupial species. Biobanks of frozen tissue from living marsupial populations have been collected to protect against extinction from fires, however, we still lack the technology to take that tissue -- create marsupial stem cells -- and then turn those cells into a living animal. That is the technology we will develop as a part of this project.