Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word STUB

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Definitions of STUB

1. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
2. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
3. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
4. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
5. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
6. An old and worn horseshoe nail.
7. Stub iron.
8. The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
9. (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
10. (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
11. (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
12. (chiefly, WMF) A Wikipedia article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
13. (obsolete) A log or block of wood.
14. (obsolete) A blockhead.
15. (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
16. (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
17. (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.

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Examples of Using STUB in a Sentence

• In poker the top card of the deck stub is burned at the beginning of each betting round, so that players who might have been able to read markings on that card during the previous round are less able to take advantage of that information.
• One can replace any round of (or add a round to) a stud poker game with a twist round, in which each player is offered the option to replace exactly one card in his hand with a new one from the remaining deck stub.
• In 2013, Cisco permitted other vendors to freely implement a limited version of EIGRP with some of its associated features such as High Availability (HA), while withholding other EIGRP features such as EIGRP stub, needed for DMVPN and large-scale campus deployment.
• The mansion at Chessington World of Adventures, known today as the Burnt Stub, was originally built in 1348.
• Graceville was served by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at the end of the stub Georgiana Branch which reached the town on July 16, 1902, and, later, by the Seaboard System from 1983, and then by the Alabama and Florida Railroad, when the line was spun off as a shortline.
• The company went bankrupt in 1877, having only built a stub from Chestertown to a place called Belair or Parsons and abandoning the rest unfinished.
• Many Manx have a small stub of a tail, but Manx cats are best known as being entirely tailless; this is the most distinguishing characteristic of the breed, along with elongated hind legs and a rounded head.
• All versions of FASM can directly output any of the following: flat "raw" binary (usable also as MS-DOS COM executable or SYS driver), objects: Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) or Common Object File Format (COFF) (classic or MS-specific), or executables in either MZ, ELF, or Portable Executable (PE) format (including WDM drivers, allows custom MZ DOS stub).
• Vestiges of this extension can be seen from I-95 in the form of stub ramps and the mainline coming to an abrupt end as a barricaded bridge.
• The stub, the "Penn Pocket", had been built to take PRR commuters from Harborside Terminal on short turn World Trade Center to Exchange Place runs.
• It was given a more aerodynamic nose, four stub wings, and a box-shaped tail unit consisting of a roughly 12-sided annular set of fixed surfaces and a cruciform tail with thick surfaces within the annulus, which contained the Fritz Xs aerodynamic controls.
• This requires that any such requests are tunneled through a stub remaining in memory outside the HMA, which would invoke the A20 handler in order to (temporarily) enable the A20 gate.
• A person, or workgroup, who is connected to an , by only one router, is a stub network with respect to the ISP.
• Similar to the later Boeing 314, the Do X lacked conventional wing floats, using sponsons (fuselage-mounted stub wings) to stabilize the craft on the water and also act as embarkation platforms for passengers.
• The removal of part of this freeway stub would be part of a larger project called New Haven Downtown Crossing which seeks to reconnect New Haven's street grid which was originally disconnected by the construction of the connector.
• Most Sylvilagus species have stub tails with white undersides that show when they retreat, giving them their characteristic name.
• They also went to a movie theater and attempted to purchase tickets for the film Batman to use as their alibi but abandoned the plan due to the timestamp on the ticket stub.
• During the film, the ticket stub (counterfoil) transports Danny into the fictional world, interrupting Slater during a car chase.
• If you are designing a disassembler you can easily map just the symbol name to the offset address of each stub and pointer to show the method or function call taking place without looking for the undefined symbol address location in other Mach-O files.
• When regrown, the tail grows back only to a short stub, probably because loss of the tail does not sufficiently affect the species' locomotion, foraging and defence abilities to necessitate full and rapid regeneration.
• " While in prison his family reported that Aghajari's amputated leg stub was bruised and infected and that he was "unable to stand up, walk or use the prison's hygiene facilities.
• Stub period, period of time over which interest accrues which is not equal to the usual interval between bond coupon.
• The fairings over the Hispano barrels were shorter and there was usually a short rubber stub covering the outer cannon port.
• In the Java remote method invocation (Java RMI) nomenclature, a stub communicates on the client-side with a skeleton on the server-side.
• 10 gigabit member ports are connected to Glimmerglass Systems photonic switches which maintain an optical connection to the stub switch on the currently active side of the network, following the VSRP protocol.

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