STEMMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stemmer mean? 

• STEMMER (noun)
  The noun STEMMER has 5 senses:

1. a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books

2. a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

3. an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

4. a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge

5. a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)

  Familiarity information: STEMMER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEMMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sprigger; stemmer; stripper

Hypernyms ("stemmer" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("stemmer" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

stemmer; stemming algorithm

Hypernyms ("stemmer" is a kind of...):

algorithm; algorithmic program; algorithmic rule (a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem)

Derivation:

stem (remove the stem from)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stemmer" is a kind of...):

tamp; tamper; tamping bar (a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.))

Sense 5

Meaning:

A device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stemmer" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)