What is the meaning of the word "stem"?
Definitions:
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(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed noun
- thematic vowels are part of the stem
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cause to point inward verb
- stem your skis
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grow out of, have roots in, originate in verb
- The increase in the national debt stems from the last war
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remove the stem from verb
- for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed