Stub

Quick meaning: Stub is a noun meaning Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
2. (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
3. (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
4. (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
5. (electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
6. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
7. (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.

Example Sentences

payment stub

And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.

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).

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.

Word Forms

• stubs
• stubbing
• stubbed

Synonyms for stub

Depending on context, synonyms include sidehead, butt, abrade, scrape, skin, nub.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include abrade, scrape, butt, skin, counterfoil, nub.

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