stub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stŭb
ipa: /stʌb/
ipa: /stʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: stubs
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.
Senses: examples: text: And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
examples: text: check stub
text: ticket stub
text: payment stub
glosses: A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 352:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: mock
mock object
glosses: A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: skeleton
glosses: A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: sidehead
coordinate_terms: substub
glosses: A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
raw_tags: in tabular matter
examples: text: 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).
ref: 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 66:
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: radio frequency circuits
glosses: A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
glosses: The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
glosses: An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
glosses: A log or block of wood.
examples: text: 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[.]
ref: [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: A blockhead.
glosses: A pen with a short, blunt nib.
glosses: An old and worn horseshoe nail.
glosses: Stub iron.
glosses: 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