Stub
Definitions
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
- A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- A log or block of wood.
- A blockhead.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
Equivalents
Examples
“And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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).”
“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[.]”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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