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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
Noun
stub (plural stubs)
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- 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).
- Coordinate term: substub
- (chiefly Wikimedia jargon) A Wikipedia 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).
- 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.
, [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, 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
Derived terms
Translations
something cut short, blunted, or stunted
- Armenian: (tree stump) կոճղ (hy) (kočġ), կճատ (hy) (kčat)
- Bulgarian: парче (bg) n (parče), остатък (bg) m (ostatǎk)
- Czech: pahýl (cs) m, odřezek m, pařez (cs) m
- Danish: stump c
- Dutch: stomp (nl) m
- Finnish: tynkä (fi), töpö (fi)
- French: souche (fr) f, moignon (fr) m
- German: Stummel (de) m; Stumpf (de) m
- Hebrew: גֶּדֶם (he) m
- Ingrian: tynkä
- Irish: snab m, snabóg f (of a candle)
- Italian: mozzicone (it) m
- Korean: 그루 (ko) (geuru), 그루터기 (geuruteogi)
- Portuguese: toco (pt) m
- Russian: обло́мок (ru) m (oblómok), огры́зок (ru) m (ogrýzok), корешо́к (ru) m (korešók)
- Spanish: tocón (es), cepa (es), cachito (es)
- Swedish: stump (sv) c
- Turkish: kütük (tr)
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a piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes
computing: a placeholder procedure
(wikis) page providing minimal information
remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
finance: part of a financial swap contract
Translations to be checked
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
Translations
to remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground
to remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots
to jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe
References
Further reading
- “stub”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “stub”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “stub”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stъlbъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
stȗb m (Cyrillic spelling сту̑б)
- pillar
- column (upright supporting beam)
Declension