Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stemmer

5 senses of stemmer

Sense 1
stripper, stemmer, sprigger -- (a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books)
       => worker -- (a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker")

Sense 2
stemmer -- (a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers)
       => worker -- (a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker")

Sense 3
stemmer, stemming algorithm -- (an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem)
       => algorithm, algorithmic rule, algorithmic program -- (a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem)

Sense 4
stemmer -- (a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge)
       => 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
stemmer -- (a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples))
       => device -- (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water")