Meaning

15 senses
  1. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.

    Stummel, Stumpf

    обло́мокoblómok, огры́зокogrýzok, корешо́кkorešók

  2. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.

    check stub

    ticket stub

    Abreißzettel

    корешо́кkorešók

    коріне́цьkorinécʹ

  3. A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.

    Stub, Stutzen

  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.

    Abriss

    болва́нкаbolvánka

  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

    Stummel, Stummelschwanz

  9. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract

  10. A pen with a short, blunt nib.

  11. An old and worn horseshoe nail.

  12. Stub iron.

More definitions
  • the part of a check that is retained as a record
  • a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
  • a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
  • the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

Examples

26 sentences
  1. Tom stubbed his toe.

    Том ушкодив палець на нозі.

    ruТом ушиб палец на ноге.

    deTom stieß sich seinen Zeh.

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  2. I just stubbed my toe.

    ruЯ только что ушиб палец на ноге.

    deIch habe mir gerade den Zeh gestoßen.

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  3. Tom stubbed out his cigarette.

    ruТом затушил сигарету.

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  4. Did you stub your toe?

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  5. Mary stubbed her toe.

    Мері ушкодила палець на нозі.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes:
Русский
By meaning 2
something cut short, blunted, or stunted:
(wikis) page providing minimal information:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
something cut short, blunted, or stunted:
a piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes:
computing: a placeholder procedure:
(wikis) page providing minimal information:
remaining part of the docked tail of a dog:

Origin

From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), f

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.

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Forms

plural: stubs
Singularstub
Pluralstubs

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the part of a check that is retained as a record:check stubcounterfoil
  • a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt:ticket stub
  • the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking):butt
  • a small piece:nub

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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