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stem
Found in thesaurus: form, signifier, descriptor, word form, plant organ, cylinder, tubing, tube, front, turn, turning, originate in, orient, check, take away, take, remove, withdraw
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stem
v.
arise, come from, originate; remove the stem from; stop, check, dam up; restrain, hold back
n.
central stalk of a plant; petiole; slender part which connects or supports; main part of a word to which affixes are added (Grammar); family line of descent, ancestry
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Stem
Stem may refer to:
- Science
- Plant stem, the aboveground structures that have vascular tissue and that support leaves and flowers
- Stem cell
- STEM fields, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as collective fields of study
- The stem or stem group of a clade (in biological classification) consists of extinct organisms more closely related to the crown group than to any other extant clade
- Word stem, the base part of a word not including inflectional morphemes
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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM, previously SMET) is an education grouping used in the United States, and elsewhere. The acronym refers to the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The term is typically used when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools to improve competitiveness in science and technology development. It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy. The acronym arose in common use shortly after an interagency meeting on science education held at the US National Science Foundation chaired by the then NSF director Rita Colwell. A director from the Office of Science division of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, Dr. Peter Faletra, suggested the change from the older acronym SMET to STEM. Dr. Colwell, expressing some dislike for the older acronym, responded by suggesting NSF to institute the change. One of the first NSF projects to use the acronym was STEMTEC, the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Teacher Education Collaborative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which was funded in 1997.
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stem
Noun
1. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
(synonym) root, root word, base, theme, radical
(hypernym) form, word form, signifier, descriptor
(classification) linguistics
2. a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
(synonym) stalk
(hypernym) plant organ
(hyponym) gynophore
(part-meronym) internode
3. cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
(synonym) shank
(hypernym) cylinder
(part-holonym) anchor, ground tackle
4. the tube of a tobacco pipe
(hypernym) tube, tubing
(part-holonym) pipe, tobacco pipe
5. front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
(synonym) bow, fore, prow
(hypernym) front
(part-holonym) vessel, watercraft
6. a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
(synonym) stem turn
(hypernym) turn, turning
Verb
1. grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
(hypernym) originate in
(derivation) root, root word, base, theme, radical
2. cause to point inward; "stem your skis"
(hypernym) orient
(derivation) stem turn
3. stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide"
(synonym) stanch, staunch, halt
(hypernym) check
4. remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(derivation) stemmer, stemming algorithm
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stem (de)
n.
voice, vote, vox, faction, pipe
stemmen
v.
vote, ballot, tune, tune in, tune up, attune, voice, key up, tone
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stem
v.
zarazit; zastavit; pramenit z čeho
n.
stonek; kořen slova
