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stub

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stub (plural stubs)

Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.
A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
check stub, ticket stub, payment stub
(computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
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- 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.
(computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
- , ,
- 2002, Judith M Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware:
  After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.
(wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
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
(obsolete) A log or block of wood.
(obsolete) 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.

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stub (stubs, present participle stubbing; past and past participle stubbed)

(transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
(transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
(transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.

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