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- DictionaryStub/stəb/
noun
- 1. the truncated remnant of a pencil, cigarette, or similar-shaped object after use: "the ashtray was full of stubs"
- 2. the part of a check, receipt, ticket, or other document torn off and kept as a record: "retain your ticket stubs"
verb
- 1. accidentally strike (one's toe) against something: "I stubbed my toe, swore, and tripped"
- 2. extinguish (a lighted cigarette) by pressing the lighted end against something: "she stubbed out her cigarette in the overflowing ashtray"
1. a. : stump sense 2. b. : a short piece remaining on a stem or trunk where a branch has been lost. 2. : something made or worn to a short or blunt shape. especially : a pen with a short blunt nib. 3. : a short blunt part left after a larger part has been broken off or used up. a pencil stub. 4. : something cut short or stunted. 5. a.
STUB definition: 1. the short part of something that is left after the main part has been used, especially a…. Learn more.
STUB meaning: 1. the short part of something that is left after the main part has been used, especially a…. Learn more.
1. The usually short end remaining after something bigger has been used up: a pencil stub; a cigarette stub. 2. Something cut short or arrested in development: a stub of a tail. 3. a. The part of a check or receipt retained as a record. b. The part of a ticket returned as a voucher of payment.
the end of a fallen tree, shrub, or plant left fixed in the ground; stump. something having a short, blunt shape, especially a short-pointed, blunt pen. stub nail. something having the look of incomplete or stunted growth, as a horn of an animal. Bridge. a part-score.
The small remainder of something is a stub. If you sharpen your favorite pencil obsessively, soon you'll be left with just a stub. Anything that's leftover or unusually short can be a stub, from the ticket stub you're handed in the theater to your dog's little stub of a tail.
noun. 1. a short piece remaining after something has been cut, removed, etc. a cigar stub. 2. the residual piece or section of a receipt, ticket, cheque, etc. 3. US and Canadian. the part of a cheque, postal order, receipt, etc, detached and retained as a record of the transaction.
STUB meaning: 1. the short end piece of something such as a cigarette or pencil that is left after it has been…. Learn more.
Stub definition: The usually short end remaining after something bigger has been used up.
the small part of a ticket, cheque, etc. that you keep as a record when you have given the main part to somebody. Definition of stub noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
