stem

In a sentence

Six example sentences with stem, each labelled with its topic.

• The search engine strips endings down to the stem so that running, ran, and runs all match the same entry.

  Technology

• Latin teachers drill the stem of each verb, because every tense a student later meets is built onto it.

  Literature

• Children learn a stem long before its endings, saying jump for every tense until grammar catches up with them.

  Psychology

• Medical students memorize the Greek stem for heart, so cardiology, cardiac, and myocardium all unlock at once.

  Medicine

• Linguists rebuilt the stem of a word no one has spoken for four thousand years by comparing its living descendants.

  Science

• Once you know a Turkish verb's stem, the endings the phrasebook lists for past, future, and polite request snap into place.

  Travel

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains stem. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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