stump

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
2. The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
3. A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
4. One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
5. An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
6. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
7. (slang) A leg.
8. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
9. A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

Verb

1. (informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
2. (informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
3. To campaign.
4. (colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
5. To get a batsman out stumped.
6. To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
7. To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
8. To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
9. To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

Concepts

souche

moignon

tronçon

souche d’arbre

mégot

chaire

clocher

boiter

clopiner

piquet

chicot

tronc

estompe

talon

timbre-poste

titre

tribune

cibiche

lumignon

mettre hors jeu

botche

action

zigoune

bout

🔚

clope

clou

dais

estrade

fouler

mélanger

podium

racine

reste

sèche

sécher

Synonymes

stub

tree stump

butt

block

stubble

mix up

snag

stamp

stomp

confuse

toddle

log

hobble

pulpit

stake

stump of tree

stalk

blockhead

obscure

dais

stir

end

🔚

stock

fuddle

root

rostrum

podium

ambo

post

mystify

rampike

soapbox

sprout

disarray

discombobulate

discomfit

disconcert

disorganize

disorient

disrupt

dissolve

dock

exaction

excite

fag-end

flummox

fold

foot

🦶

fox

🦊

freshly

get

hack

heterodyne

hustings

immingle

immix

intermix

jumble

just

leg

🦵

limp

lop

maim

meld

mingle

mix

mix in

motley

muddle

nonplus

nub

obfuscate

only

paddle

peg

perplex

picket

pillar

pole

pound

💷

radical

randomise

ravel

remnant

remove

resolve

riddle

right

rile

roil

rumple

scramble

section

shake

shake up

share

shorten

shrub

snarl

sophisticate

stem

stick

stimulate

stir up

stool

tangle

throw

thwart

toss

tramp

tree

🌳

trim

trunk

tussle

unsettle

upset

very

wooden leg

throw together

reviewing stand

walk heavily

residual limb

shoulder in

short column

abash

residual part

addle

adulterate

agitate

amputate

baffle

base

beat

bemuse

bewilder

blaze

blend

bole

break up

bulldoze

campaign

canvass

challenge

chump

churn

clear

clear-cut

clomp

clutter

commingle

commix

compound

concoct

confect

cut off

dazzle

derange

disarrange

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/stʌmp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: stumpe

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: stomp

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: stumph

Appartenant à allemand: Stumpf

Appartenant à vieux norrois: stumpr

In summary

From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.