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How to pronounce stub in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ticket stub
Type of receipt
Has types rain check
Type Words
Synonyms nub
Type of part, piece
Has types nubbin


a stub of a pencil.
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Synonyms check stub, counterfoil
Type of record
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Synonyms butt
Type of portion, part
Has types cigar butt, cigarette butt, roach
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Type of plant part, plant structure
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Type of weed


stub a field.
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Type of blow out, extinguish, quench, snuff out


stub out your cigarette now.
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Type of root out, deracinate, extirpate, uproot
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Type of strike, impinge on, run into, collide with, hit


She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken.

Examples of stub

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There's no one to greet me with a wildly wagging stub of a tail when I get home.
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Even the personal policy researchers for Congress stub their toes on this topic.
From the toledoblade.com
In other cases the bearing kit for the steering rack stub shaft needs replacing.
From the boston.com
This article related to a location in Wayanad district, Kerala, India is a stub.
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But already we have dedicated articles for Africa so we can stub these sections.
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Use this to identify an article relating to Massachusetts politicians as a stub.
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This category is for stub articles relating to association football biographies.
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This biographical article relating to a Puerto Rican baseball catcher is a stub.
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I was hoping the stub template would encourage someone else to add some content.
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More examples
  • A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
  • Pull up (weeds) by their roots
  • Extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now"
  • Nub: a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil"
  • A torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
  • Clear of weeds by uprooting them; "stub a field"
  • A stub in distributed computing is a piece of code used for converting parameters passed during a Remote Procedure Call (RPC).
  • In microwave and radio-frequency engineering, a stub is a length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only. The free end of the stub is either left open-circuit or (especially in the case of waveguides) short-circuited. ...
  • A stub is the stock representing the remaining equity in a corporation left over after a major cash or security distribution from a buyout, a spin-out, a demerger or some other form of restructuring removes most of the company's operations from the parent corporation. ...