Stemmer

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who removes stems; especially one who separates the midribs from the leaves of tobacco.
  • noun. Same as blasting-needle.
  • noun. An implement used in making joints tight by means of cement.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. (linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
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  • noun. a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
  • noun. a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
  • noun. an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
  • noun. a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
  • noun. a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)
  • Word Usage
    "In such a context, the term stemmer transcends sheer comic relief, into a realm of sobering relevance threatening to become terminal."
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