English words, meanings, synonyms

• POP222

  30 Dec 11, 15:11

  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

  30 Dec 11, 15:20

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

• FireIce

  30 Dec 11, 15:22

  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

  30 Dec 11, 15:30

  @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

  30 Dec 11, 15:34

  Originally posted by POP222:

  @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! 

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

• Darkness_hacker99

  30 Dec 11, 15:36

  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

  30 Dec 11, 15:44

  @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

  30 Dec 11, 15:46

  roget's thesaurus is one of the bests

  popular i think no have 

  u can go kinokuniya to get

• POP222

  30 Dec 11, 15:51

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

• FireIce

  30 Dec 11, 15:55

  

   

   

  oxford i think quite crappy

  but good enough for our sec sch level

   

   

  im using merriam-webster (for dict)

• winsomeea

  30 Dec 11, 16:03

  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

  30 Dec 11, 16:06

  Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is very good.

   

• AngelOfDarkness

  31 Dec 11, 19:41

  Originally posted by POP222:

  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.