# stub
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: stŭb, IPA: /stʌb/
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* (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /stʊb/
* Rhymes: -ʌb

### Noun

stub (plural stubs)
* Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC: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
    ticket stub
    payment stub
* (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
    Coordinate terms: mock, mock object
** 2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 352: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.
* (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
    Coordinate term: skeleton
** 2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7: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.
* (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
    Synonym: sidehead
    Coordinate term: substub
* (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
** 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 66: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).
* (electronics, radio frequency circuits) 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
* (obsolete) A log or block of wood.
* (obsolete) A blockhead.
** [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC, page 3: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.

#### Hyponyms

* stubble
* stump

#### Derived terms

* candlestub
* pay stub
* pencil stub
* stub axle
* stub end
* stub mortise
* stub nail
* stub-tailed morpho
* stub twist

#### Translations

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### Verb

stub (third-person singular simple present stubs, present participle stubbing, simple past and past participle stubbed)
* (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
* (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
* (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
    I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.

#### Derived terms

* stub out
* unstubbed

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “stub”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Further reading

* “stub”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “stub”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “stub”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* BTUs, but's, TUBS, TBUs, buts, bust, tubs

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* stȗp

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stъlbъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stûːb/

### Noun

stȗb m (Cyrillic spelling сту̑б)
* pillar
* column (upright supporting beam)