stub

CEFRB1

/stʌb/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The short remaining part after something has been cut or used.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • Layla had multiple stub wounds to her back.

  • On a pay stub are mentioned: the gross salary and the net salary.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.

  3. A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.

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In context

  • payment stub

  • I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.

  • And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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.