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# stub

«stub» in Mova's school dictionary: **The short end left after most of something has been used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stub, stubs); verb (stub, stubs, stubbed, stubbing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The short end left after most of something has been used, like a pencil stub or a candle stub. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#m1)

2) The small part of a ticket or cheque you keep as a record. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#m2)

3) To hit your toe by accident against something hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#m3)

4) «Stub out» means to put out a cigarette by pressing it down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#m4)

5) (computing) A short, unfinished piece of writing or code. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you «stub your toe» on furniture, which really hurts. A ticket stub proves you paid. In stories a pencil stub shows someone is poor or has written a lot. Phrases: «stub your toe», «ticket stub», «pencil stub», «stub out».

### examples

- I stubbed my toe on the bed and it really hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#x1)
- I kept the ticket stub from the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#x2)
- He wrote with a tiny stub of a pencil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#x3)
- Only a stub of the candle was left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#x4)
- Ouch! I just stubbed my toe on the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#x5)
- Keep the stub as proof that you paid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#x6)
- The Wikipedia page was only a stub with two lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/#x7)

### note

Double the «b»: stubbed, stubbing. «Stubby» means short and thick. Do not mix up «stub» (short end) with «stud» (a small metal knob or earring).

### In the corpora

- [When people stub a toe or drop a plate, a swear word wants to jump out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stub» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stub/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.