English Dictionary

stub

/stʌb/

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.

He accidentally stepped on a stub and hurt his foot.

意味（1）

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

And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.

意味（2）

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

check stub

意味（3）

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

Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.

意味（4）

(computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.

Coordinate term: skeleton

意味（5）

(typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).

Coordinate term: substub

意味（6）

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.

A stub is usually long enough to serve as a quick definition, but too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject (see Figure 4-2).

意味（7）

The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

(obsolete) A log or block of wood.

意味（10）

(obsolete) A blockhead.

I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth, our ſtocks and ſtubbs from the infinite deſire of such a happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles[.]

意味（11）

A pen with a short, blunt nib.

意味（12）

An old and worn horseshoe nail.

意味（13）

Stub iron.

意味（14）

The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.