stub
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: stubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
pos: noun
examples: And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.
gloss: A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
pos: noun
examples: check stub
ticket stub
payment stub
gloss: A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
pos: noun
gloss: An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
pos: noun
examples: 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).
gloss: A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
pos: noun
gloss: The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
pos: noun
gloss: An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
pos: noun
gloss: A log or block of wood.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A blockhead.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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[.]
gloss: A pen with a short, blunt nib.
pos: noun
gloss: An old and worn horseshoe nail.
pos: noun
gloss: Stub iron.
pos: noun
gloss: The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
pos: noun
examples: They found stubs, stubs of marijuana cigarettes.
gloss: To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.
Derived words: candlestub
pay stub
pencil stub
stub axle
stubbie
stubbify
stubby
stub end
stubify
stubless
stublike
stub mortise
stub nail
stubtail
stub-tailed morpho
stub twist
stubber
stub out
unstubbed
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