stemmer
ste mer
- n a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
- n a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
- n an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
- n a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
- n a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)
- But the basic plant and the factories that get built tend, in the process, to stem inflationhopefullyby increasing the best inflation stemmer there is, productivity.
- A hobo isn't a stemmer; he begs only when he has to.