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stem noun

  /stɛm/
  • A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
 tige, racine, radical
  • (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
 potence
  • (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
 étrave

stem verb

  /stɛm/
  • (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
 arrêter
  • (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
 faire le chasse-neige

stem verb

  /stɛm/
  • To descend in a family line.
 provenir
  • To be caused or derived; to originate.
 découler, résulter
  • To remove the stem from.
 équeuter

stemming noun

  • A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.
 dépréfixation, désuffixation, racinisation

STEM noun

  /stɛm/
  • (uncountable, education) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
 STIM
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