stub

Significat (English)

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. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
8. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
9. (obsolete) A log or block of wood.
10. (obsolete) A blockhead.
11. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
12. An old and worn horseshoe nail.
13. Stub iron.
14. The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.

Verb

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

Synonyms

stump

counterfoil

butt

put out

extinguish

snag

quench

hit

wallop

strike

nub

knock

beat

stubble

stumble

stem

uproot

check stub

smack

sketch

attain

ticket stub

stub track

snuff out

find

🔍

outline

stalk

block

blockhead

stub track

stipe

stock

catch

encounter

remnant

cut off

root out

base

turn off

run across

run up against

kill

🔪🩸👤

score

extirpate

rampike

stub one’s toe

shorten

tree stump

section

shaft

shock

⚡

short

slake

sprag

sprout

stabiliser

stake

stamp out

stance

stay

stool

supporter

swat

switch off

tail

thrum

tidbit

transversal

trunk

turn out

unroot

view

weed

extreme end

kick against

oddment

pedicle

amputate

pudge

end of a stalk

position paper

stand bar

support leg

stabilizer blade

crop residue

shaft tip

shaft end

axial-tag terminal

axle head

dead standing tree

stub out

appal

assuage

attitude

ballot

behead

clinch

contention

copy

coupon

crash

crush out

cut

dado

dampen

decapitate

deracinate

dig up

douse

duplicate

ember

end

🔚

eradicate

exaction

fag end

form

grub

head

heel

horrify

hull

joint

kick

leftover

log

maim

morsel

out

pedicel

placeholder

population

position

press out

puncheon

remainder

root

rout

scape

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/stʌb/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: stubbe

Inherited from anglès antic: stybb

Cognate with neerlandès mitjà: stubbe

Cognate with nòrdic antic: stubbr

Cognate with 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.