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stub
- /stʌb/
- /stʊb/ Ireland, Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌb
Where it comes from
From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob.
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.
noun stubs
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. check stub
- A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.
- A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing. The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.
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A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
Similar: sidehead
- An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development. A stub is usually long enough to serve as a quick definition, but too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject (see Figure 4-2).
- A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- A log or block of wood.
- A blockhead. I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth, our ſtocks and ſtubbs from the infinite deſire of such a happy nurture, then we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles[.]
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt. They found stubs, stubs of marijuana cigarettes.
verb stubs · stubbing · stubbed
- To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
- To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe. I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: abrade, scrape, butt, skin, counterfoil, nub, check stub, ticket stub, fragment, fragmented, fragmentary, lug, piecemeal, heel, patchwork, house
Translations
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noun something cut short, blunted, or stunted
| Español | tocón, cepa, cachito |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 그루 geuru, 그루터기 geuruteogi |
| Português | toco |
| Français | souche, moignon |
| Deutsch | Stummel, Stumpf |
| Italiano | mozzicone |
| Русский | обло́мок oblómok, огры́зок ogrýzok, корешо́к korešók |
| עברית | גֶּדֶם |
noun a piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes
| Español | desprendible, resguardo, talón |
|---|---|
| Português | canhoto, talão |
| Français | souche, talon |
| Deutsch | Abreißzettel |
| Italiano | matrice |
| Русский | корешо́к korešók |
noun (wikis) page providing minimal information
| Español | esbozo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 토막글 tomakgeul |
| Português | esboço |
| Français | ébauche |
| Deutsch | Abriss |
| Italiano | abbozzo |
| Ελληνικά | λήμμα προς επέκταση límma pros epéktasi |
| Русский | болва́нка bolvánka |
| العربية | بذرَة |
noun remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
| Français | moignon |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Stummel, Stummelschwanz |
| Italiano | moncherino |
verb to remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground
| Deutsch | roden, kürzen (kurz über dem Grund) |
|---|
verb to remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots
| Português | desarraigar |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | ausroden, ausreißen (vt.), ausreißen |
| Italiano | sradicare |
verb to jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe
| 中文 | 碰到 pèngdào |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | stoßen, sich stoßen (vr.), stoßen gegen (vt.) |
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