n.
1.a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
2.a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
3.an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
4.a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
5.a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)
Idiom of the Day
lose out on (something)
to fail to get or take part in something
I lost out on a chance to go to Mexico City because I was too busy with other things.