stub

Plural: stubs

Noun

• a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
• a small piece
  • "a stub of a pencil"
• a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
• the part of a check that is retained as a record
• the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
• 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.
• 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
• An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
• A log or block of wood.
• A blockhead.
• A pen with a short, blunt nib.
• An old and worn horseshoe nail.
• Stub iron.
• The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.

Verb

• pull up (weeds) by their roots
• extinguish by crushing
  • "stub out your cigarette now"
• clear of weeds by uprooting them
  • "stub a field"
• strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
  • "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken"
• To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
• To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
• To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.

Examples

• "check stub"
• "I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark."
• "payment stub"
• "ticket stub"

Synonyms

butt, check stub, counterfoil, nub, sidehead, ticket stub