Decrease and Stem

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

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