stub
/stʌb/ noun C1- 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. · check stub· ticket stub
- 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 row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
Plural stubs
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You know the piles are just old tree trunks and there are lots of knots and old branch stubs on them.
But mine was answered, for the flat bumped right into a pile for a minute and I flung the scarf and the shawl over my shoulder and scrambled up on a big providential stub.
If you seriously desire to deceive me you must change your tobacconist; for when I see the stub of a cigarette marked Bradley, Oxford Street, I know that my friend Watson is in the neighbourhood.
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