stub

About 0.94 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
2. noun A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.

   check stub

3. noun A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
4. noun A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
5. noun A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
6. noun An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
7. noun A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
8. noun The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog

Similar words

abrade scrape butt skin counterfoil nub check stub ticket stub fragment fragmented

Often followed by

of and is in for to or from out

Word family

stub her toe stub her toes stub his toe stub his toes stub its toe stub its toes stub my toe stub my toes stub one's toe stub one's toes