Crossword clues for stemming
stemming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stem \Stem\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stemmed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stemming.] [Either from stem, n., or akin to stammer; cf.
G. stemmen to press against.]
To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to
resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow
of, as a current. ``An argosy to stem the waves.''
--Shak.
[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
--Denham.
Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) Movement against a current, especially a tidal current. 2 A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words. 3 (context rock climbing English) The technique of bridging between two holds with hands and/or feet, applying forces to each in opposing directions in order to brace oneself in position. vb. (present participle of stem English)
WordNet
v. grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
cause to point inward; "stem your skis"
stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide" [syn: stanch, staunch, halt]
remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
n. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, theme, radical]
a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stalk]
cylinder forming a long narrow part of something [syn: shank]
the tube of a tobacco pipe
front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow]
a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it [syn: stem turn]
See stem
Wikipedia
In linguistic morphology and information retrieval, stemming is the process of reducing inflected (or sometimes derived) words to their word stem, base or root form—generally a written word form. The stem need not be identical to the morphological root of the word; it is usually sufficient that related words map to the same stem, even if this stem is not in itself a valid root. Algorithms for stemming have been studied in computer science since the 1960s. Many search engines treat words with the same stem as synonyms as a kind of query expansion, a process called conflation.
Stemming programs are commonly referred to as stemming algorithms or stemmers.
Usage examples of "stemming".
Apprehensively, he watched the speedometer mete out his remaining freedom in diminishing seconds of arc, stemming the urge to brake to a stop and bolt headlong up the tunnel on foot.
There he directed the operations, quickly organizing and sorting out the problems of the most affected divisions: Rajshahi, Dhaka itself, Barisal, and finally Chittagong, which had its own special problems stemming from Kaptai Lake.
When the gamma rays finally strike Banner the Younger, they activate mutated genetic material that has been passed down to him from his father, and they further serve to amplify a rage born of childhood trauma, this stemming from a terrible domestic event involving his mother that Bruce has blacked out and is fragmentarily revealed during the course of the film.
But these were just kinesthesis and touch, primitive notions stemming from the premise of a body.
De geur daarvan bereikte Marcs neus toen het zingen net begon en hoewel hem was verteld dat het kunstenaars waren, riep het geheel voor hem de stemming en het ontzag van een godsdienstige plechtigheid op.
She struck me as the sort of woman who, a hundred years ago, might have spent long years in a sanitarium with a series of misdiagnoses stemming from anxiety, un-happiness, laudanum addiction, or an aversion to sex.
The Treatise analyzes this contradiction as stemming from Harry's middle-class upbringing, from which he has never been able to escape.
Why did Austronesian people, stemming ultimately from mainland China, colonize Java and the rest of Indonesia and replace the original inhabitants there, instead of Indonesians colonizing China and replacing the Chinese?
Cat tried to stop the memory of the hateful day before her banishment, like stemming flood tides.
And yet she had brought him and his cell vital information, intelligence that would go a long way to stemming the tide of death among them.
The pair was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Little Rock on murder, racketeering and conspiracy charges, stemming from the Mueller murder.
The user is left with a feeling of disorientation (to say nothing of annoyance) stemming from a kind of metaphor shear--you realize that you've been living and thinking inside of a metaphor that is essentially bogus.
The small human genetic pool, itself stemming from variations of the original metagenome according to a mathematical formula provided by Original Man, needed the constant creation of new genotypes from unexploited alleles.
Indeed, the dominant idea in all the major religions stemming from this area — Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — is that there is but one people on earth that has received the Word, one holy people of one tradition, and that its members, then, are the members of one historic body — not such a natural, cosmic body as that of the earlier (and now Eastern) mythologies, but a supernaturally sanctified, altogether exceptional social body with its own often harshly unnatural laws.
There was a cultural price too, stemming from the fact that we couldn't open up the hood and mess around with it.