English noun: stemmer |
1. | stemmer (person) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books |
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| Synonyms | sprigger, stripper |
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| Broader (hypernym) | worker |
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2. | stemmer (person) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers |
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| Broader (hypernym) | worker |
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3. | stemmer (cognition) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem |
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| Synonyms | stemming algorithm |
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| Broader (hypernym) | algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rule |
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4. | stemmer (artifact) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge |
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| Broader (hypernym) | tamp, tamper, tamping bar |
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5. | stemmer (artifact) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) |
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| Broader (hypernym) | device |
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