Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, human-sciences, linguistics, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: device
noun
a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tamp, tamper, tamping bar
noun
an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stemming algorithm
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: algorithm, algorithmic rule, algorithmic program
noun
a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: worker
noun
a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stripper, sprigger
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: worker
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh2- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *stéh2mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *sth2mnís Proto-Germanic *stamniz Proto-West Germanic *stamni Old English stemn Middle English stemme English stem English -er English stemmer From stem + -er.
