stub
noun
- short electrical transmission line
- piece of computer code
- remainder of financial stock
verb
- to injure one's toe on a hard object
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /stʌb/ / /stʊb/
noun
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.
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
“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”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- 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).”
- 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[.]”
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
“They found stubs, stubs of marijuana cigarettes.”
verb
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.
- 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.
“I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.”