Basic and Stem

noun

• A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use.
• Usually plural. ( a necessary commodity for which demand is constant)
  • synonyms: staple

adjective

• Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
  • usage: "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
• Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.
  • usage: "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
  • synonyms: canonic, canonical
• Serving as a base or starting point.
  • usage: "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
  • synonyms: introductory
• Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .

• (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
• (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
• (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
• (a.) Having the base in excess or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

• Name Meaning: Diminutive of Basil: Royal. Kingly. St Basil the Great was Bishop of Caesarea in the latter half of the 4th century. This name was introduced into Western Europe by the Crusaders. Derived from the same Greek word as the plant name basil
• Name Origin: Greek

noun

• Linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. (
  • usage: "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
  • synonyms: root, root word, base, theme, radical
• A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ.
  • synonyms: stalk
• Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something.
  • synonyms: shank
• The tube of a tobacco pipe.
• Front part of a vessel or aircraft.
  • usage: "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
  • synonyms: bow, fore, prow
• A turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it.
  • synonyms: stem turn

verb

• Grow out of, have roots in, originate in.
  • usage: "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
• Cause to point inward.
  • usage: "stem your skis"
• Stop the flow of a liquid.
  • usage: "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide"
  • synonyms: stanch, staunch, halt
• Remove the stem from.
  • usage: "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

• (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
• (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
• (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
• (n.) A branch of a family.
• (n.) Alternative of Steem.
• (n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
• (n.) The entire central axis of a feather.
• (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
• (v.i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
• (v.i.) Alternative of Steem.
• (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
• (n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
• (n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
• (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea or of a gorgonian.
• (n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
• (v.t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
• (v.t.) To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
• (v.t.) To oppose or cut with or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.

• Name Meaning: Austere
• Name Origin: English