Stub

Definition: Stub

Stub

Noun

1. A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost.

2. A small piece; "a nub of coal" or "a stub of a pencil".

3. A torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt.

4. The part of a check that is retained as a record.

5. The small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking).

Verb

1. Strike against an object, as of one's toe or foot.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stub" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

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Synonyms: Stub

Crosswords: Stub

Serbo-Croatian (column, pier, pile, pillar, pole, post, pylon).

Do it, and you'll pull back a bloody stub. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Hoby and Stub (reference)

• Stub Entries to Indents Issued in Payment of Claims Against South Carolina Growing Out of the Revolution, Bk. K (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Secret Nasa Transmissions:Martyn Stub (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Delta 43-357 Double-Ended Router and Stub Spindle (reference)

• Delta 43-809 1/2" Stub Spindle for Heavy Duty Wood Shapers (reference)

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A view from Locust Bayou stub canal toward the Gulf of Mexico, rock is on the beach in the background. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Southeast view from the stub canal toward the final construction site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Rock in front of the stub canal. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A northwest view from the stub canal toward the end of the project area. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A view of the stub canal from the beach. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A southeast view of the northwest end of the project area at the stub canal. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The benefits of smoking : stub out your habit now...join the healthy people / published by Consumers' Association of Penang, 27, Kelawei Road, Penang. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ship's Marines line up on the flight deck for physical drill, circa mid-1943. Planes on the flight deck include F6F, SBD and TBM types. Note "SK" radar antenna mounted on the stub mast between the stacks and inflatable life belts worn by many of the men on deck. Credit: NAVY.

S.S. M.W. [i.e. Howard M.] Hanna, rear cabin and stub of smokestack after storm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Paper machinery to plane wing parts. A vertical milling machine operator planes aluminum stub wing blocks in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also making open naval sights and other war essentials. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "stub": check stub ♦ coaxial stub ♦ stub end ♦ stub end of pencil ♦ stub gear teeth ♦ stub iron ♦ stub mortise ♦ stub nail ♦ stub network ♦ stub one's foot on ♦ stub out ♦ stub short ♦ stub shot ♦ stub teeth ♦ stub tuner ♦ stub twist ♦ stub up ♦ ticket stub. Additional references.

Beginning with "stub": stub-filled, stub-out.

Ending with "stub": candle-stub, cigarette-stub, ticket-stub.

Albanian

fund (back, base, bed, bottom, death, decease, decline, doom, end, ending, epilogue, extremity, finality, finish, foot, foundation, ground, Omega, petticoat, quietus, rock bottom, skirt, sole, tag, tail, tailpiece, terminal, termination), cung (stump), bisht (crook, fag end, flagellum, handle, prat, queue, scape, stalk, stem, tail, tail end, tip, train). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ما يبقى من الشىء, ‏عقب قلم الرصاص, ‏عقب السيجارة (stump), ‏صدم (be shocked, bump, hit, offend, percuss, ram, shock, strike), ‏جذل الشجرة, ‏إستأصل (deracinate, enucleate, eradicate, excise, extirpate, grub, root), ‏إرتطم (barge into, bump, hit, impinge, lap), ‏أطفأ السيكارة بسحق عقبها, ‏أرومة الشيك (counterfoil, tally), ‏ريشة كتابة معدنية, ‏رطم (thump), ‏بقية الغصن المقطوع (stump), ‏بقية (end, remainder, remnant, rest, survival). (various references)

Bulgarian 

угарка (butt, snipe, stump), удрям крака си в нещо, къс молив, корен (radical, radix, root, stump), кочан, коляно (articulation, crank, elbow, joint, knee, leg, manifold, toggle, tribe), остатък (balance, difference, dreg, end, odd-come-short, overage, patch, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, shank, surplus, the rest), малко парче, пън (billet, block, log, nog, stock, stump, trunk), прочиствам от коренища, подритвам (kick about, kick around), изкоренявам пънове. (various references)

Chinese 

残余部分, 存� � . (various references)

Czech

pahýl (stump), pařez (butt, snag, stump), oharek (cinder, snuff, stump), špaèek (starling, stump). (various references)

Danish

stub (stem, stock, stub end, stubble, stump, tree stump, trunk), stoed (butt, impact, joint, kicking, pushing off, rail joint, shock, stem, stock, stump, throwing, trunk), stikledning (service conductors, stub line), stab (snag, stump), traestump (snag), afstemningsstub (stub tuner), afstemningsledning (stub line). (various references)

Dutch

peukje (cigar-end, cigarette-end, cigar-stub), peuk (cigar-end, cigarette-end, cigar-stub). (various references)

Esperanto

cigaredstumpo (cigarette-end). (various references)

Farsi 

کنده (Bloc, Block, Chump, Stock, Timber), کوتوله (Dwarf, Gnome, Grub, Runt), کوبیدن (Beat, Bruise, Grind, Hammer, Knock, Mallet, Nail, Pash, Pound, Ram, Smite, Stave, Thrash, Thresh), ته چک , ته سیگار (Snip, Stump), ته سوش , ته بلیط, ته (Base, Bed, Bottom, Butt, Extremity, Heel), تحلیل بردن (Absorb, Imbibe, Undermine, Useup), ازبیخ کندن , ریشه (Germ, Pedigree, Stem, Tassel, Theme), راندن (Booh, Dislodge, Drive, Force, Hurry, Pilot, Poach, Rein, Repulse, Row, Steer, Unkennel, Whisk). (various references)

Finnish

kanto (collection, stump). (various references)

French

souche (stock, strain, stump), chicot (stump). (various references)

German

stumpf (blunt, bluntly, dull, dulled, flat, lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless, masculine, obtuse, pointless, snub, stolid, stolidly, stump, stupid, toneless, truncated, turned-up), baumstumpf (stump tree, tree stump). (various references)

Greek 

κορμόσ (block, stem, stock, stump, trunk), κοτσάνι (pedicel, stalk, stem), ρίζα,πρέμνον νεκρού δένδρου,κοπέντος εις πολύ ύψος (stump), στέλεχοσ διπλοτύπου, στέλεχοσ (counter foil, scape, shaft, stem, stock), στέλεχος (executive member, member, officer, stalk, stem), βραχυκυκλωμένο ή ανοιχτοκυκλωμένο στέλεχος γραμμής μεταφοράς που χρησιμοποι είται γιά προσαρμογή φορτίων (stub tuner), πρέμνον (branch, snag, stump), εκρίζω (eradicate, extirpate, grub, rout, uproot), απομεινάρι (fag end, leftover, oddment, remnant, scrap). (various references)

Hebrew 

למעוך (bruise, crush, press, pulverize, squash, squeeze), ל�"תקל במכשול (fall over), תלוש (check, coupon, detached, picked, plucked, slip, torn out), קצ�" (border, butt, edge, end, extremity, outskirts, tag end, tail end, tip), ז� ב (appendage, butt, rear, stump, tail, tail end), �'�"ם (amputee, one handed, stump, trunk), ב�"ל סי�'רי�" (butt of cigarette, roach), ב�"ל (a separate part, detached, end, flap, piece, separated, tip). (various references)

Hungarian

tuskó (butt, chump, clump, log, nerd, nurd, stock, stump, trunk, yob), fatönk (log, stump, tree-stump), tompa vége vminek, maradék (end, frazzle, left over, left overs, oddments, pickings, remainder, remains, remnant, residua, residue, residuum, rest, rump, tailings, the rest), ellenőrző szelvény, csonk (end, snag, stud, stump), ceruzavég. (various references)

Indonesian

puntung (butt), membasmi sampai akarnya, carik (classifier, remmant, torn). (various references)

Italian

troncone (stump), mozzicone (butt, end, stump, tip over), ceppo (block, chunk, log, stock, stump). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

原票 , 半券 , � �っ�" (root, stump), � �っ子 (root, stump), スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねっ�" (root, stump), スタブ , �'�"ぴょう (zero milestone), は�"け�" (copyright). (various references)

Korean 

그루터기. (various references)

Manx

sail (seal), bwon (gorse stick for fire wood, staddle, stump). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubstay

Portuguese

cepo (blockhead, chunk, chunk of wood, dummy, log, stock, stump). (various references)

Romanian

trunchi (block, frustrum, shaft, shank, stem, stock, stool, stump, torso, trunk), talon (check, counterfoil, coupon, talon), rest de dinte (stump), muc (snuff, stump, Wick), cotor (butt, haft, handle, helve, stock), colţ de mãsea (stump), ciot (gnarl, knar, knob, knot, nub, snag, stump), buturugã (clump, log, snag), butuc (block, butt, chump, hub, log, lump, pap, snag, stock, stump, vine), buştean (horse-block, hub, log, lump, stump, timber, trunk). (various references)

Russian 

огрызок (stump), обломок (chip, debris, detritus, fragment, mammock, shatter, splinter, stump), пень (stump). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, drive in, hack, hit, jog, knock, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, swipe, wallop, whack), talon (talon), pikavac (butt, butt: cigarette butt, cigarette end, cigarette-stub, stump), panj (block, blockhead, log, stump), odrezak (chop, section, snip, snippet, steak), iskrčiti (clear). (various references)

Spanish

tocón (butt, snag, stump). (various references)

Swedish

stubbe (stock, stump), stump (bit, end, snippet, stump, tag, tag end). (various references)

Thai

โคน, สะ�"ุ�" (founder), ต้นขั้วตั๋วหรือเช็ค, ตอไม้ (grub), ขุ�"รากถอนโคน. (various references)

Turkish

vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), taşa çarpmak, koçan (corn cob, counterfoil, coupon, slip), kesilen ağacın kalan kütüğü, kalem artığı, kalan kök, köklerden temizlemek, kökünden sökmek (disroot, eradicate, extirpate, root away, root out, root up, stub up, tear up, uproot), izmarit (blotched picarel, butt, cigarette butt, cigarette end, dog end, end, fag end, pill, sea bream, stump), bastırıp söndürmek (stub out). (various references)

Ukrainian

розчищати (clear), цурпалок, корінець (back, counterfoil), викорчовувати (grub, grub up), пень (bole, scrag, stump). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuốc lá (canister, indian weed, mild). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stub": stubbed, stubbier, stubbiest, stubbily, stubbing, stubble, stubbled, stubbles, stubblier, stubbliest, stubbly, stubborn, stubborner, stubbornest, stubbornly, stubbornness, stubbornnesses, stubby, stubs. (additional references)

Words ending with "stub": paystub. (additional references)

Words containing "stub": paystubs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stub" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atub, Csutcb, Schaub, scub, Shtib, shtum, shub, skub, spub, squb, staba, Stabb, staub, steb, Steib, stib, stibe, stibz, stiuf, stob, stomb, stoub, stoz, stu, stuba, Stubai, stube, stuby, stue, stuf, stug, stui, stul, stulby, stus, stuv, stuw, stux, stuy, stuz, styb, su, subj, subp, subt, suo, Tsibu, Tsuba, tsubo, Tsuboi, tsui. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bust, buts, tubs.

-1 letter: bus, but, sub, tub, uts.

-2 letters: us, ut.

+1 letter: abuts, bhuts, bouts, bunts, burst, busts, busty, butes, butts, stubs, tabus, tsuba, tubas, tubes.

+2 letters: beauts, besmut, bestud, bluest, bluets, blunts, blurts, bruits, brunts, brutes, bundts, burets, bursts, busted, buster, bustic, bustle, buteos, butles, buttes, bututs, butyls, cubist, cubits, debuts, doubts, obtuse, rebuts, robust, sacbut, sagbut, stubby, subito, sublet, sublot, submit, subnet, subset, subtle, subtly, tabuns, thumbs, tubers, tubist, turbos.