different between stub vs nubbin

English

Etymology

From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”).

Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?b, IPA^(key): /st?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

stub (plural stubs)

1. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.

   • And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.

3. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.

   check stub, ticket stub, payment stub

4. (computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
   • [1], [2], [3]
   • 1996, Chip Weems, Nell Dale, Pascal:

     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.

5. (computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
   • [4], [5], [6]
   • 2002, Judith M Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware:

     After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.

6. (wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
7. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
8. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
9. (obsolete) A log or block of wood.
10. (obsolete) A blockhead.
11. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
12. An old and worn horseshoe nail.
13. Stub iron.
14. The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.

Antonyms

• (computing) skeleton (4)

Hyponyms

• stubble
• stump

Derived terms

• pencil stub
• pay stub

Translations

Verb

stub (third-person singular simple present stubs, present participle stubbing, simple past and past participle stubbed)

1. (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
2. (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
3. (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.

   I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.

Derived terms

• unstubbed

Translations

References

Further reading

• stub in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• stub in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• stub at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• BTUs, TBUs, bust, but's, buts, tubs

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• st?p

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *st?lb?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stû?b/

Noun

st?b m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. pillar
2. column (upright supporting beam)

Declension

English

Etymology

Perhaps nub +? -in.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?b?n/

Noun

nubbin (plural nubbins)

1. A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.
2. (informal) A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob.

   As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.

3. (slang) The clitoris.

References

• nubbin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “nubbin” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “nubbin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?nub?bi?n/

Adjective

nubbin

1. essive of nubbi