stub

(Engels)

Noun

1. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
2. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
3. A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
4. A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
5. A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
6. An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
7. A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
8. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
9. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
10. (obsolete) A log or block of wood.
11. (obsolete) A blockhead.
12. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
13. An old and worn horseshoe nail.
14. Stub iron.
15. The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.

Verb

1. (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
2. (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
3. (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/stʌb/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: stubbe

Geërf van Old English: stybb

Verwante met Middle Dutch: stubbe

Verwante met Old Norse: stubbr

Verwante met Faroëes: stubbi

In summary

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.

Sinonieme

stump

counterfoil

butt

put out

extinguish

snag

quench

uproot

check stub

knock

smack

wallop

nub

stubble

beat

stumble

strike

stem

hit

stub track

base

stub track

catch

rampike

turn off

kill

🔪🩸👤

stub one’s toe

tree stump

ticket stub

encounter

stock

stalk

cut off

block

sketch

snuff out

root out

find

🔍

run across

shorten

attain

extirpate

remnant

run up against

blockhead

stipe

outline

score

ember

contention

Vertalings

mozzicone

souche

tocón

moignon

stomp

colilla

matrice

peuk

Stummel

ébauche

extinguir

mégot

uitdoen

Stumpf

éteindre