English words, meanings, synonyms

POP222 SG

hey guys! can someone help me with the meaning of the word stemming.

the sentence is 'the band director pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct stemming from his relationship with a 16-year old.'

what does steming really mean? and can the synonym of that word be starting or growing?

thanks:)

winsomeea SG

Do you know there are things like hardcopy of dictionary, online dictionary and google you can use?

FireIce SG

u know, plant got the main stem rite

then branches out into the stalks and leaves

growing is rather close

more like "derived", "brought about..."
can also be "originate", "developed"

POP222 SG

@winsomeea do you know that sometimes you must find the words that fit into the sentence's context and i couldn''t find one that fitted well so i have to ask you guys for help :) thanks for your help too!

winsomeea SG

Another source you can try is online or hard copy Thesaurus.

Darkness_hacker99 SG

Secondary school right? :)

Once you find the meaning of this word already, try to use this word again tomorrow. :) record down the sentence that you've included the new word in a logbook.

POP222 SG

@winsomeea thanks a lot!

@darkness_hacker99 yup!! yeah, i am trying to do that to improve my english vocabulary. i hope it does help. thanks anyway :)

FireIce SG

roget's thesaurus is one of the bests

popular i think no have

u can go kinokuniya to get

POP222 SG

how about oxford's thesaurus?and what is the full title of the thesarus?

FireIce SG

oxford i think quite crappy

but good enough for our sec sch level

im using merriam-webster (for dict)

winsomeea SG

For Dictionary, I strongly recommend Collins Cobuild - Advance Learners, comes with a disc, too.

This has explanation of some American English and tells difference in the spelling of American and British English. It has words like market research ........

I love it. My fav Dictionary.

A Good Samaritan SG

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is very good.

AngelOfDarkness SG

hey guys! can someone help me with the meaning of the word stemming.

the sentence is 'the band director pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct stemming from his relationship with a 16-year old.'

what does steming really mean? and can the synonym of that word be starting or growing?

thanks:)

simple synonym : arising

'the band director pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct arising from his relationship with a 16-year old.'

Read more English books (which use proper English! novels. Comics don't count.), den u won't have much problems with word meanings le. Not a foolproof plan but still pretty good =) English is something that confirmed cannot be learnt simply by using a dictionary or thesaurus etc. These tools are good for building our vocab bank but that's about it.