stub
/stʌb/
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Ireland/stʊb/
stub noun: something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
Noun
stub (plural stubs)
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- check stub
- ticket stub
- 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.2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 352
- 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.2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7
- A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- Synonyms:
- sidehead
- 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).2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 66
- 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
- A log or block of wood.
- A blockhead.
- 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[.][1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC, page 3
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
Verb
stub (third-person singular simple present stubs, present participle stubbing, simple past and past participle stubbed)
stub meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
stub in Hindi
- स्टब, स्टब करें
stub in Tamil
- கட்டை, குற்றாணி, முளை
stub in Marathi
- स्टब, स्टब करा
stub in Urdu
- درخت کا ٹھنٹھ
More languagesFewer languages
- stub in Bengali
- অংশবিশেষ, অবশিষ্টাংশ, রসিদ
- stub in Telugu
- గంట gaṇṭa
- stub in Malayalam
- ഉപയോഗിച്ചശേഷം ഉപേക്ഷിക്കപ്പെട്ട തുണ്ട്, കുറ്റി, മരട്, മരക്കുറ്റി
- stub in Kannada
- ತುಂಡು, ಮೋಟು
- stub in Punjabi
- ਸਟੱਬ
- stub in Gujarati
- સ્ટબ
- stub in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟବ୍, ଷ୍ଟବ, ସ୍ଟବ୍
- stub in Nepali
- स्टब
- stub in Arabic
- بذرَة
Examples of stub in a sentence
- I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.
- He stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and went back inside.
- I stubbed my toe on an old tree stump.
Synonyms of stub
Forms of stub
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stubs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stubs |
| present participle | stubbing |
| past participle | stubbed |
| past | stubbed |
Origin of stub
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.
Words formed from stub
Phrases with stub
Words that rhyme with stub
Questions about stub
- What does stub mean?
- Stub means something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- What is stub in Hindi?
- Stub in Hindi is स्टब, स्टब करें. See Stub meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is stub?
- Stub can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce stub?
- Stub is pronounced /stʌb/.
- What is the plural of stub?
- The plural of stub is stubs.
Words near stub in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stub (page history and authors); stub (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stub (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stub (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stub (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stub (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గంట (Telugu) (page history and authors); stub (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stub (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stub (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stub (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stub (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stub (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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