stemmer

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsstrippersprigger

   Broaderworker
2. 2.

   a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

   Broaderworker
3. 3.

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

   Synonymsstemming algorithm

   Broaderalgorithm
4. 4.

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

   Broadertamp
5. 5.

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

   Broaderdevice

Other forms of stemmer

plural

stemmers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stemmer

What does stemmer mean?

stemmer means "a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stemmer?

stemmer has 2 syllables: stem-mer. The stress falls on "stem". In IPA it is /ˈstɛmɚ/.

What is another word for stemmer?

Close synonyms include stripper, sprigger, stemming algorithm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stemmer a common word?

stemmer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.