• a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
• front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
• cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
• the tube of a tobacco pipe
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the Stem"
• a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
• remove the Stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be Stemmed"
• stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide"
• grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt Stems from the last war"
• cause to point inward; "Stem your skis"

'Stem' in other languages