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Stub
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- 1 Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
"And prickly stubs instead of trees are found."
- 2 the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) wordnet
- 3 A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
"check stub"
- 4 the part of a check that is retained as a record wordnet
- 5 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."
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- 6 a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt wordnet
- 7 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."
- 8 a small piece wordnet
- 9 A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- 10 a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost wordnet
- 11 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)."
- 12 A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- 13 The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- 14 An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- 15 A log or block of wood. obsolete
- 16 A blockhead. obsolete
"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[.]"
- 17 A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- 18 An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- 19 Stub iron.
- 20 The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- 1 To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground. transitive
- 2 strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object wordnet
- 3 To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots. transitive
- 4 clear of weeds by uprooting them wordnet
- 5 To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe. transitive
"I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark."
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- 6 extinguish by crushing wordnet
- 7 pull up (weeds) by their roots wordnet
Etymology
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.
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.
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