STUB (stubbed, stubbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: stubbed    , stubbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stub mean? 

• STUB (noun)
  The noun STUB has 5 senses:

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

2. a small piece

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)

  Familiarity information: STUB used as a noun is common.

• STUB (verb)
  The verb STUB has 4 senses:

1. pull up (weeds) by their roots

2. extinguish by crushing

3. clear of weeds by uprooting them

4. strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object

  Familiarity information: STUB used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("stub" is a kind of...):

plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small piece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

nub; stub

Context example:

a stub of a pencil

Hypernyms ("stub" is a kind of...):

part; piece (a portion of a natural object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stub"):

nubbin (a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn))

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

stub; ticket stub

Hypernyms ("stub" is a kind of...):

receipt (an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stub"):

rain check (a ticket stub entitling the holder to admission to a future event if the scheduled event was cancelled due to rain)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The part of a check that is retained as a record

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

check stub; counterfoil; stub

Hypernyms ("stub" is a kind of...):

record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

butt; stub

Hypernyms ("stub" is a kind of...):

part; portion (something less than the whole of a human artifact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stub"):

cigar butt (small part of a cigar that is left after smoking)

cigarette butt (small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

roach (the butt of a marijuana cigarette)

• STUB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stub    ... he / she / it stubs   
Past simple: stubbed   
Past participle: stubbed   
-ing form: stubbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pull up (weeds) by their roots

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "stub" is one way to...):

deracinate; extirpate; root out; uproot (pull up by or as if by the roots)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extinguish by crushing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

stub out your cigarette now

Hypernyms (to "stub" is one way to...):

blow out; extinguish; quench; snuff out (put out, as of fires, flames, or lights)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Clear of weeds by uprooting them

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

stub a field

Hypernyms (to "stub" is one way to...):

weed (clear of weeds)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

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

Hypernyms (to "stub" is one way to...):

collide with; hit; impinge on; run into; strike (hit against; come into sudden contact with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

But, dear me! this cigarette stub is certainly remarkable.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Quite as often he understepped and stubbed his feet.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“I am a connoisseur,” said he, taking another cigarette from the box—his fourth—and lighting it from the stub of that which he had finished.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At nine o'clock he stubbed his toe on a rocky ledge, and from sheer weariness and weakness staggered and fell.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Some day, when I have a better desk than a meat-tin and more helpful tools than a worn stub of pencil and a last, tattered note-book, I will write some fuller account of the Accala Indians—of our life amongst them, and of the glimpses which we had of the strange conditions of wondrous Maple White Land.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She sneezed continually, and her stub of a tail was doing its best toward lashing about by giving quick, violent jerks.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Sometimes he overstepped and stubbed his nose.

(White Fang, by Jack London)