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