0 a central part of something from which other parts can develop or grow, or which forms a support -- 主幹
1 the part of a word that is left after you take off the ending -- 詞幹
2 the small part on the side of a watch that you turn to move the hands (= parts that point to the numbers), or to make the watch operate -- （手錶的）發條轉柄，撥針柄
3 the main supporting structure at the front of a ship -- （船）艏，艏柱
4 to stop something unwanted from spreading or increasing -- 阻擋；阻止；遏制
5 abbreviation for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (as subjects of study) -- 科學、技術、工程和數學（ Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics的縮寫）
However, there are also qualitative and quantitative differences among the clitics stemming, in our view, from their different internal syntax.
In the laboratory, rice stems were scraped9 and gut contents were carefully removed11.
The regulations that stem from the consensus ensure a peer-review scientific process so that the science is as good as any system can guarantee.
Between 1996 and 1998, 229 plants died and 629 stems recruited into the 30 cm size class.
They can show many different symptoms, and stem from many different causes.
By contrast, a two-syllable suffix attached to the same stem is conducive to a succession of two stressed syllables.
Examples of cell signalling pathways implicated in adult stem cell ageing.
Thus, only when the stress of the ending is zero is the stress in the word placed in the stem.
