Stem

(noun.) the tube of a tobacco pipe.

(verb.) remove the stem from; 'for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed'.

(verb.) stop the flow of a liquid; 'staunch the blood flow'; 'stem the tide'.

(verb.) grow out of, have roots in, originate in; 'The increase in the national debt stems from the last war'.

(verb.) cause to point inward; 'stem your skis'.

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• The bulb was first heated and the stem placed in water. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• After making her fast, they swarmed the sides and searched the vessel from stem to stern. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• There was none: all was interwoven stem, columnar trunk, dense summer foliage--no opening anywhere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Moreover, as he darned he smoked a pipe, the stem and bowl of which were red also. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• For fully five hundred feet I continued to climb, until at length I reached the opening in the stem which admitted the light. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• You acted as I should have expected you to act, said Dorothea, her face brightening and her head becoming a little more erect on its beautiful stem. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She came swiftly out to us, as straight as a lily on its stem, and as lithe and supple in every movement she made as a young cat. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Hence I was led to dry the stems and branches of ninety-four plants with ripe fruit, and to place them on sea-water. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Manila hemp is obtained from the leaf stalks of the Philippine plant known as the Abacá, the leaf stems of which are compressed together, and constitute the trunk of the plant. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• By this movement the stems are inclined to all sides, and are made to move round and round. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He also had earthenware drums across which skins were stretched; perhaps also he made drums by stretching skins over hollow tree stems. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• See what stems from that. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• As far aloft as I could see the stems and branches and twigs were as smooth and as highly polished as the newest of American-made pianos. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Many of these plants took the form of huge-stemmed trees, of which great multitudes of trunks survive fossilized to this day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sadly and slowly I stemmed my course from among the heaps of slain, and, guided by the twinkling lights of the town, at length reached Rodosto. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Picturesque Arabs sat upon the ground, in groups, and solemnly smoked their long-stemmed chibouks. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Venn moved his elbow towards a hollow in which a dense brake of purple-stemmed brambles had grown to such vast dimensions as almost to form a dell. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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