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stub
1[ stuhb ]
noun
- a short projecting part.
- a short remaining piece, as of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
- (in a checkbook, receipt book, etc.) the inner end of each leaf, for keeping a record of the content of the part filled out and torn away.
- the returned portion of a ticket.
- the end of a fallen tree, shrub, or plant left fixed in the ground; stump.
- something having a short, blunt shape, especially a short-pointed, blunt pen.
- something having the look of incomplete or stunted growth, as a horn of an animal.
- Bridge. a part-score.
verb (used with object)
- to strike accidentally against a projecting object:
I stubbed my toe against the step.
- to extinguish the burning end of (a cigarette or cigar) by crushing it against a solid object (often followed by out ):
He stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray.
- to clear of stubs, as land.
- to dig up by the roots; grub up (roots).
stub
/ ʌ /
noun
- a short piece remaining after something has been cut, removed, etc
a cigar stub
- the residual piece or section of a receipt, ticket, cheque, etc
- the part of a cheque, postal order, receipt, etc, detached and retained as a record of the transaction Also called (in Britain) counterfoil
- any short projection or blunted end
- the stump of a tree or plant
verb
- to strike (one's toe, foot, etc) painfully against a hard surface
- usually foll by out to extinguish (a cigarette or cigar) by pressing the end against a surface
- to clear (land) of stubs
- to dig up (the roots) of (a tree or bush)
Other 51Թ Forms
- ٳܲb noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of stub1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of stub1
Example Sentences
The absence of pay stubs “raises questions about whether 1Fifty1 deducts employment taxes from its employees’ wages, as is required by federal and state law,” the complaint said.
As she stubbed it out and prepared to go back into the meeting, she saw Tom coming in the opposite direction.
She said that during her various arrests, she was badly beaten, threatened with being shot in the leg and having a cigarette stubbed out on her back.
But the breakthrough came from an Embassy cigarette end stubbed out on an ashtray on the living room coffee table.
All of them were undocumented during their employment, and some shared texts, emails, pay stubs and other documents.
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