Stub
Pronunciation
- enPR: stÅb, IPA: /stÊŒb/
- Rhymes: -ÊŒb
Origin
From Middle English stubbe ("tree stump"), from Old English stybb ("tree stump")
, from Proto-Germanic *stubjaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teu-; compare steep ("sharp slope").
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe†is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette†1927.
Online Etymology Dictionary
Full definition of stub
Noun
stub
(plural stubs)- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- DrydenAnd prickly stubs instead of trees are found.
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.check stub, ticket stub, payment stub
- (computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. (http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN8120324455&id=K6BloOqIssQC&pg=RA29-PA8-IA9&lpg=RA29-PA8-IA9&dq=stub+procedure+-remote&sig=_Bm9HlXBRIsDwwCy0tqUOcXomL4, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN185233570X&id=t4ZkqmbLHMMC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=stub+procedure+-remote&sig=SZtMm8JhyE9HUVlKbp-U_TG2-hY, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0763707929&id=X_VlpfGoQRgC&pg=PA352&lpg=PA352&dq=stub+procedure+-remote&sig=oppYeiiRBcoPAkpkxZcbpcyaXIA).
- 1996, Chip Weems, Nell Dale, Pascal: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.
- (computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing. (http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0387238395&id=_pYyEgj0fX8C&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=stub+procedure&sig=1xdBGyhc6WYeJtLNWrzzGF0jRXo, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN3540419454&id=mH4MFwHDRB4C&pg=PA716&lpg=PA716&dq=stub+procedure&sig=r3IGw__iPlskg9HCllA6I4lqX-M, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0849312728&id=Gc886KgsdcsC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=stub+procedure&sig=x-txczr_KTmgepfZBsxPHy7Vncw)
- 2002, Judith M Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware:After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.
- (wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- 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
- (obsolete) A log; a block; a blockhead.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
Antonyms
- (computer) skeleton (4)