Stub

//stʌb// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.

    "And prickly stubs instead of trees are found."

  2. 2
    the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) wordnet
  3. 3
    A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.

    "check stub"

  4. 4
    the part of a check that is retained as a record wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt wordnet
  2. 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."

  3. 8
    a small piece wordnet
  4. 9
    A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
  5. 10
    a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost wordnet
  6. 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)."

  7. 12
    A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
  8. 13
    The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
  9. 14
    An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
  10. 15
    A log or block of wood. obsolete
  11. 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[.]"

  12. 17
    A pen with a short, blunt nib.
  13. 18
    An old and worn horseshoe nail.
  14. 19
    Stub iron.
  15. 20
    The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
Verb
  1. 1
    To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground. transitive
  2. 2
    strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object wordnet
  3. 3
    To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots. transitive
  4. 4
    clear of weeds by uprooting them wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    extinguish by crushing wordnet
  2. 7
    pull up (weeds) by their roots wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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