stub

Meaning

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.

stump

check stub

ticket stub

stub track

stub track

turn off

extirpate

stub one’s toe

tree stump

extreme end

kick against

amputate

end of a stalk

stand bar

support leg

stabilizer blade

crop residue

shaft tip

shaft end

axial-tag terminal

axle head

dead standing tree

crush out

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stʌb/

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.

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