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Substep vs Substem - What's the difference?

substep | substem |

As nouns the difference between substep and substem

is that substep is any smaller element of a step (in a procedure) while substem is (botany) one of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.

substep

English

Alternative forms

*sub-step

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any smaller element of a step (in a procedure)

    • substem

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) One of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.
  • (linguistics) Part of a stem.
  • * 2007 , Dirk Geeraerts, H. Cuyckens, The Oxford handbook of cognitive linguistics
    • Similarly, Polish (Dancygier 2000) uses three interacting substems to express spatial information...