stub
/stʌb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
noun
A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
noun
A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
noun
A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
noun
An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
noun
A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
Example Sentences
- "And prickly stubs instead of trees are found."
- "check stub"
- "ticket stub"
- "payment stub"
- "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."
- "The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server."
Etymology
From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob. Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.