stub

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Conceptes

apagar

extingir

pegar

copejar

colpir

matriu

bategar

batre

castigar

espetegar

percudir

picar

repicar

sorprendre

trucar

tustar

xocar

burilla

esclafar

esborrany

punta

endevinar

ensopegar

esbós

estaloc

encertar

galet

comprovant

monyó

caure

Sinònims

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

Traduccions

mozzicone

souche

tocón

moignon

matrice

Stummel

colilla

ébauche

peuk

stomp

uitdoen

extinguir

éteindre

mégot

Stumpf

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/stʌb/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: stubbe

Heretat de anglès antic: stybb

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: stubbe

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: stubbr

Cognat amb feroès: 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.