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Definition stub
Etymology
From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”).
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.
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.
- (computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- (computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
- (wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- 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.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
Verb
stub (third-person singular simple present stubs, present participle stubbing, simple past and past participle stubbed)
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