stub – English noun declension

English noun forms of stub

Noun: stub
Singularstub
Pluralstubs

Sample Sentences

  • And prickly stubs instead of trees are found. [1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • 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. [2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 352:]
  • 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. [2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:]
  • A stub is usually long enough to serve as a quick definition, but too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject (see Figure 4-2). [2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 66:]
  • I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth, our ſtocks and ſtubbs from the infinite deſire of such a happy nurture, then we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles[.] [[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC, page 3:]
  • They found stubs, stubs of marijuana cigarettes. [1970, Jeff Wanshel, The Disintegration of James Cherry, Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN, page 16:]

Etymology

1. 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.
2. Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927. See: Middle English Nouns 'stubbe', Old English Nouns 'stybb', Old Norse Nouns 'stubbr', Faroese Nouns 'stubbi'.

Verbs referencing "stub"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns stubb, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns stubb, Russian Nouns стаб.