stub

Meanings

Noun

• Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
• A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
• A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
• A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
• A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
• The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
• An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
• A log or block of wood.
• A blockhead.
• A pen with a short, blunt nib.
• An old and worn horseshoe nail.
• Stub iron.
• The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.

Verb

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

Related

Opposite words

• skeleton (4)

Narrower meaning words

• stubble
• stump

Origin

• From Middle English stubbe ("tree stump"), from Old English stybb, stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep.
• Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.