Definition of stub in English:

stub

nounPlural stubs stʌbstəb

1The truncated remnant of a pencil, cigarette, or similar-shaped object after use.
残端，残余部分；铅笔头；烟蒂，烟屁股
the ashtray was full of stubs
a pencil stub
the stub of a candle
Example sentencesExamples
- He removed a stub of a pencil and stick of gum from his pants pocket.
- She hates the millions of cigarette stubs in the sand, but says the water's ‘just lovely’.
- He rose, and found the stub of a slender blue dinner candle about four inches long.
- Then she took out a piece of paper and a stub of a pencil.
- The whole class stopped, their eyes on me, and the teacher turned away from the board and pointed a short stub of blackboard chalk at me.
- Tommy flicked the stub overboard and raised a brow.
- Finally he pulled out the piece of paper and stub of a pencil.
- Are there any others out there who find comfort in the stub of pencil on a string and other mildly eccentric aspects of elections past?
- Or are they expecting to find a signature or a footprint or a cigarette stub?
- Firefighters said the man had emptied his cigarette stubs into a bin without checking if they were alight or not.
- The stub of cigar jutting from his mouth glowed like a malevolent LED.
- At the village hall a new cigarette stub receptacle was smashed and rubbish bins destroyed.
- The coffee table was still littered with books and stubs of candles burnt right down to the core.
- Her thoughts stopped abruptly when someone poked her in the back of her shoulder with the stub of a pencil eraser.
- Working by candlelight with the stub of his last pencil, he finally achieved the transformation of a humble o into the majestic 0.
- ‘Not everyone carrying a pencil stub and a piece of paper is a journalist.’
- She flicked the cigarette stub into the night.
- I filled out the application sheet with a pencil stub - an émigré from a miniature golf course.
- To assemble it, you put the pencil stub into the hole of the spool and stuck the pin straight up in the middle of the eraser.
- When Amiry was writing her script, her husband hoarded her pencil stubs, revealing his secret stash in Medium of Love.
Synonyms
butt, end, tail end, remnant
informal dog-end, fag end
stump, remnant, end, tail end, remains
1. 1.1 A truncated or unusually short thing.
  截短物；异常短的东西
  he wagged his little stub of tail
  他摇动着那条短小的尾巴。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The dog is described as a black and tan Rottweiler-type, with a fluffy coat and a stub tail.
  Deb harvests cuttings from her potted succulents, leaving short stubs of stem that can be poked through the wreath's outer layer of moss.
  The rest of his body was almost all wolf, though his feet - his hind paws - were still shrinking, and his tail was little more than a stub.
  The rope that she had wrapped about her after she had untied the two sheep, had caught on a short broken stub of a branch.
  Her heart went out to the old man, his stubs of knees settled atop a crudely-made mat of old newspapers and cloth.
  The dog turned its head, wagged its stub of a tail.
  The second cut should be outside the first cut, all the way through the branch, leaving a short stub.
  Roger was a shy, sweet Jewish boy with very short black hair, a little stub of a beard and pierced ears.
  Don't cut branches flush to the trunk, and don't leave stubs.
  She took off with the black dog close behind with her little stub of a tail the only thing that he could reach.
  Don't leave stubs; cut just above side branches that you want to grow.
  A Siamese had only a stub of a tail, a short-haired spotted cat walked strangely, with only three legs.
  We mapped the location of exposed branch stubs and branch scars on each stem.
2. 1.2as modifier Denoting a projection or hole that goes only part of the way through a surface.
  短突起；浅孔眼
  a stub tenon
  半榫。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The massive columns were delivered to the site with stub pieces prewelded to them, and the steel beams were bolted to those stubs.
  Two stub walls with ample storage for china and linens loosely define the seating and dining areas.
  Is there a minimum or maximum stub length required for Y cables?
  The rocker arms are roller tipped and ride on needle bearings mounted on individual stub shafts.
2The counterfoil of a cheque, receipt, ticket, or other document.
（支票、收据、票据等单据的）票根，存根
retain your ticket stubs
he drew out his chequebook and checked the stubs
Example sentencesExamples
- A start to this second approach is no further than a pay stub away.
- He told me to go into one of his drawers and get out one of his check stubs.
- The required documents are a proof of address and welfare or cheque stub.
- I remember the date because I still have the ticket stub from the game.
- Fans will also have to retain ticket stubs during the game to ensure that they are in the correct seats.
- The INS recommends that tourists bring hotel receipts and ticket stubs from sightseeing destinations and transportation.
- Ticket stubs are now hot collector's items, with many fetching unheard-of prices.
- Don't let anything that's not acid-free, such as ticket stubs, touch your photos.
- Neither of them would blink an eye at my check stubs or grocery lists.
- Anyone who has a ticket for the show should hold on to their ticket stub and they will gain entry.
- How on earth am I going to keep myself from losing the ticket stub?
- Keep receipts, cheque stubs, credit card statements or similar proof of purchase.
- Many people use their final pay stub to come up with an estimate.
- Individual ticket buyers and holders of ticket stubs will have three weeks beginning Aug.8 to submit claims.
- He nodded, handing me our ticket stubs and passports back.
- Ticket stubs and star-gazing are her real-life drama.
- In part, that's because too many of us still find ourselves holding the short end of the pay stub.
- Coverslips were then coated with gold and attached to an SEM stub with tape or rubber cement before SEM scanning.
- You can use ticket stubs or ribbons or receipts or photos or envelopes or napkins to mark your place in books.
- Similarly, a move to online employee pay stubs saved about $2 million.
Synonyms
counterfoil, ticket slip, detachable portion, coupon, tab, receipt

verbstubbed, stubbing, stubs stʌbstəb

[with object]

1Accidentally strike (one's toe) against something.
使（脚趾）踢碰
I stubbed my toe, swore, and tripped
我不小心踢到了脚趾，骂了一声，就绊倒了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Yesterday afternoon, while at work, I got up from my desk and stubbed my toe.
- The party the day before had been real enough, as had the pain of stubbing his toe on the way up the steps.
- In fact, my most useful contribution was stopping Ian from swearing when he stubbed his toe in the vestry.
- Walking forward he stubbed his toe on one of the bookshelves and cursed loudly.
- That day played vividly in his mind as he walked along, stubbing his toe occasionally on the uneven path.
- I remember you crying as a little boy when you stubbed your toe.
- I'm sure I've only sworn occasionally, like after stubbing my toe for the nineteenth time.
- People are stubbing their toes and feet and falling all over.
- Lizzie considered she might be dreaming but had second thoughts after stubbing her toe on a ceramic vase.
- She made her way across the dark room, stubbing her toe on the dresser on her way.
- Or if you walk backwards, Larry, you'll never stub your toe.
- To his right, there was a noise, and he moved towards it, stubbing his toe on a pile of rubble in the process.
- I rubbed my eyes and tumbled out of bed, stubbing my toe on the dresser in the process.
- Fiona, who had been busy watching her bandaged legs to avoid stubbing her toes on rocks in the road, looked up and around her.
- I am always stubbing my toe, smashing my arms against walls, tripping over, scratching myself.
- While she's running, she stubs her toe and falls to the ground.
- As the last two wives were passing, one of them stubbed her toe against the tortoise's shell and instantly let out a cry of pain.
- But I'd still rather we didn't have to distract ourselves from our headache by stubbing our toes.
- Simple hurts like stubbing his toe or getting a paper cut throbbed for hours.
- Amy cried out as she accidentally stubbed her toe on one of the wooden bedposts.
2Extinguish (a lighted cigarette) by pressing the lighted end against something.
掐灭，捻熄
she stubbed out her cigarette in the overflowing ashtray
她在已经满溢的烟灰缸里掐灭了香烟。
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the men who had been smoking stubbed his cigarette out on the stall.
- They plunged hatpins into his bottom, stubbed out cigarettes on his body and swung handbags at his head.
- He stubbed the second cigarette out and leaned forward.
- I put the camera into the case and stubbed the cigarette, which was, by then, my fifth.
- The scene made Lady Peacemaker think of a giant cigarette butt being stubbed out.
- He stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray near the door.
- He also visited her grave accompanied by his mother, stubbed out cigarettes and swore at photographers.
- She stubbed out the cigarette she had just lit, and dropped it into her ashtray, ‘There.’
- Sadie bared her teeth and stubbed the cigarette on a nearby table.
- Someone stubbed a cigarette out on her in a club.
- She turned and headed inside, stubbing her cigarette.
- He bent over and stubbed out his cigarette on the tar seal.
- Declan stubbed out his cigarette with a vicious twist, and then threw up his hands like a disappointed Italian don.
- All ashtrays must be removed and provision made at the entrance to premises where cigarettes can be stubbed out.
- Midnight was rescued just outside Swindon in October after children stubbed out cigarettes on his eyes.
- Isabella stubbed the cigarette on the window ledge and gathered her bag.
- David said he often found cigarettes stubbed out inside the church and recently found an empty wine bottle.
- If a smoker refuses to stub their cigarette out security guards will ultimately enforce the ban.
- Visitors who are not aware of the ban have happily stubbed their cigarettes out when they have been asked by our staff.
- Kienan stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and lit another, grimacing imperceptibly as he did.
Synonyms
extinguish, put out, douse, smother, choke, stamp out, blow out, quench, stub out, turn out, dampen, damp down
3Grub up (a plant) by the roots.
连根挖
he was found to have stubbed up a hedge
有人发现他把树篱连根挖起来了。

Origin

Old English stub(b) 'stump of a tree', of Germanic origin. The verb is first recorded (late Middle English) in sense 3; sense 1 of the verb (mid 19th century) was originally a US usage.

A stub was originally a tree stump. From this developed the general idea of a portion being left behind when something has been removed, such as a counterfoil in a chequebook or a cigarette butt. The verb was initially used in the sense ‘to dig up a plant by the roots’. The meaning ‘to accidentally strike’, as in ‘I stubbed my toe’, was first used in the USA in the mid 19th century. Stubborn may be based on stub, though this is by no means certain. A stub or tree stump is difficult to remove, so there may be a connection. Stubborn originally meant ‘untameable or ruthless’ before the modern meaning, ‘obstinate’, emerged.

Rhymes

blub, bub, chub, Chubb, club, cub, drub, dub, flub, grub, hub, nub, pub, rub, scrub, shrub, slub, snub, sub, tub

Definition of stub in US English:

stub

nounstəbstəb

1The truncated remnant of a pencil, cigarette, or similar-shaped object after use.
残端，残余部分；铅笔头；烟蒂，烟屁股
Example sentencesExamples
- I filled out the application sheet with a pencil stub - an émigré from a miniature golf course.
- She flicked the cigarette stub into the night.
- At the village hall a new cigarette stub receptacle was smashed and rubbish bins destroyed.
- Working by candlelight with the stub of his last pencil, he finally achieved the transformation of a humble o into the majestic 0.
- He rose, and found the stub of a slender blue dinner candle about four inches long.
- Or are they expecting to find a signature or a footprint or a cigarette stub?
- Finally he pulled out the piece of paper and stub of a pencil.
- The coffee table was still littered with books and stubs of candles burnt right down to the core.
- He removed a stub of a pencil and stick of gum from his pants pocket.
- ‘Not everyone carrying a pencil stub and a piece of paper is a journalist.’
- Are there any others out there who find comfort in the stub of pencil on a string and other mildly eccentric aspects of elections past?
- Firefighters said the man had emptied his cigarette stubs into a bin without checking if they were alight or not.
- The whole class stopped, their eyes on me, and the teacher turned away from the board and pointed a short stub of blackboard chalk at me.
- To assemble it, you put the pencil stub into the hole of the spool and stuck the pin straight up in the middle of the eraser.
- The stub of cigar jutting from his mouth glowed like a malevolent LED.
- Her thoughts stopped abruptly when someone poked her in the back of her shoulder with the stub of a pencil eraser.
- When Amiry was writing her script, her husband hoarded her pencil stubs, revealing his secret stash in Medium of Love.
- She hates the millions of cigarette stubs in the sand, but says the water's ‘just lovely’.
- Then she took out a piece of paper and a stub of a pencil.
- Tommy flicked the stub overboard and raised a brow.
Synonyms
butt, end, tail end, remnant
stump, remnant, end, tail end, remains
1. 1.1 A truncated or unusually short thing.
  截短物；异常短的东西
  he wagged his little stub of tail
  他摇动着那条短小的尾巴。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We mapped the location of exposed branch stubs and branch scars on each stem.
  Her heart went out to the old man, his stubs of knees settled atop a crudely-made mat of old newspapers and cloth.
  A Siamese had only a stub of a tail, a short-haired spotted cat walked strangely, with only three legs.
  The second cut should be outside the first cut, all the way through the branch, leaving a short stub.
  Roger was a shy, sweet Jewish boy with very short black hair, a little stub of a beard and pierced ears.
  The dog is described as a black and tan Rottweiler-type, with a fluffy coat and a stub tail.
  Deb harvests cuttings from her potted succulents, leaving short stubs of stem that can be poked through the wreath's outer layer of moss.
  The rope that she had wrapped about her after she had untied the two sheep, had caught on a short broken stub of a branch.
  The rest of his body was almost all wolf, though his feet - his hind paws - were still shrinking, and his tail was little more than a stub.
  The dog turned its head, wagged its stub of a tail.
  She took off with the black dog close behind with her little stub of a tail the only thing that he could reach.
  Don't leave stubs; cut just above side branches that you want to grow.
  Don't cut branches flush to the trunk, and don't leave stubs.
2. 1.2as modifier Denoting a projection or hole that goes only part of the way through a surface.
  短突起；浅孔眼
  a stub tenon
  半榫。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The massive columns were delivered to the site with stub pieces prewelded to them, and the steel beams were bolted to those stubs.
  The rocker arms are roller tipped and ride on needle bearings mounted on individual stub shafts.
  Two stub walls with ample storage for china and linens loosely define the seating and dining areas.
  Is there a minimum or maximum stub length required for Y cables?
2The part of a check, receipt, ticket, or other document torn off and kept as a record.
（支票、收据、票据等单据的）票根，存根
Example sentencesExamples
- Keep receipts, cheque stubs, credit card statements or similar proof of purchase.
- The INS recommends that tourists bring hotel receipts and ticket stubs from sightseeing destinations and transportation.
- Ticket stubs and star-gazing are her real-life drama.
- A start to this second approach is no further than a pay stub away.
- Many people use their final pay stub to come up with an estimate.
- Don't let anything that's not acid-free, such as ticket stubs, touch your photos.
- He nodded, handing me our ticket stubs and passports back.
- Fans will also have to retain ticket stubs during the game to ensure that they are in the correct seats.
- Similarly, a move to online employee pay stubs saved about $2 million.
- I remember the date because I still have the ticket stub from the game.
- The required documents are a proof of address and welfare or cheque stub.
- Anyone who has a ticket for the show should hold on to their ticket stub and they will gain entry.
- Coverslips were then coated with gold and attached to an SEM stub with tape or rubber cement before SEM scanning.
- Individual ticket buyers and holders of ticket stubs will have three weeks beginning Aug.8 to submit claims.
- You can use ticket stubs or ribbons or receipts or photos or envelopes or napkins to mark your place in books.
- Ticket stubs are now hot collector's items, with many fetching unheard-of prices.
- How on earth am I going to keep myself from losing the ticket stub?
- He told me to go into one of his drawers and get out one of his check stubs.
- Neither of them would blink an eye at my check stubs or grocery lists.
- In part, that's because too many of us still find ourselves holding the short end of the pay stub.
Synonyms
counterfoil, ticket slip, detachable portion, coupon, tab, receipt

verbstəbstəb

[with object]

1Accidentally strike (one's toe) against something.
使（脚趾）踢碰
I stubbed my toe, swore, and tripped
我不小心踢到了脚趾，骂了一声，就绊倒了。
Example sentencesExamples
- As the last two wives were passing, one of them stubbed her toe against the tortoise's shell and instantly let out a cry of pain.
- Amy cried out as she accidentally stubbed her toe on one of the wooden bedposts.
- But I'd still rather we didn't have to distract ourselves from our headache by stubbing our toes.
- In fact, my most useful contribution was stopping Ian from swearing when he stubbed his toe in the vestry.
- Or if you walk backwards, Larry, you'll never stub your toe.
- I'm sure I've only sworn occasionally, like after stubbing my toe for the nineteenth time.
- People are stubbing their toes and feet and falling all over.
- While she's running, she stubs her toe and falls to the ground.
- I rubbed my eyes and tumbled out of bed, stubbing my toe on the dresser in the process.
- Yesterday afternoon, while at work, I got up from my desk and stubbed my toe.
- That day played vividly in his mind as he walked along, stubbing his toe occasionally on the uneven path.
- I am always stubbing my toe, smashing my arms against walls, tripping over, scratching myself.
- Fiona, who had been busy watching her bandaged legs to avoid stubbing her toes on rocks in the road, looked up and around her.
- Walking forward he stubbed his toe on one of the bookshelves and cursed loudly.
- I remember you crying as a little boy when you stubbed your toe.
- She made her way across the dark room, stubbing her toe on the dresser on her way.
- Simple hurts like stubbing his toe or getting a paper cut throbbed for hours.
- Lizzie considered she might be dreaming but had second thoughts after stubbing her toe on a ceramic vase.
- The party the day before had been real enough, as had the pain of stubbing his toe on the way up the steps.
- To his right, there was a noise, and he moved towards it, stubbing his toe on a pile of rubble in the process.
2Extinguish (a lighted cigarette) by pressing the lighted end against something.
掐灭，捻熄
she stubbed out her cigarette in the overflowing ashtray
她在已经满溢的烟灰缸里掐灭了香烟。
Example sentencesExamples
- They plunged hatpins into his bottom, stubbed out cigarettes on his body and swung handbags at his head.
- Someone stubbed a cigarette out on her in a club.
- I put the camera into the case and stubbed the cigarette, which was, by then, my fifth.
- He bent over and stubbed out his cigarette on the tar seal.
- If a smoker refuses to stub their cigarette out security guards will ultimately enforce the ban.
- He stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray near the door.
- Sadie bared her teeth and stubbed the cigarette on a nearby table.
- He also visited her grave accompanied by his mother, stubbed out cigarettes and swore at photographers.
- All ashtrays must be removed and provision made at the entrance to premises where cigarettes can be stubbed out.
- One of the men who had been smoking stubbed his cigarette out on the stall.
- He stubbed the second cigarette out and leaned forward.
- Isabella stubbed the cigarette on the window ledge and gathered her bag.
- Visitors who are not aware of the ban have happily stubbed their cigarettes out when they have been asked by our staff.
- Midnight was rescued just outside Swindon in October after children stubbed out cigarettes on his eyes.
- David said he often found cigarettes stubbed out inside the church and recently found an empty wine bottle.
- Kienan stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and lit another, grimacing imperceptibly as he did.
- The scene made Lady Peacemaker think of a giant cigarette butt being stubbed out.
- Declan stubbed out his cigarette with a vicious twist, and then threw up his hands like a disappointed Italian don.
- She stubbed out the cigarette she had just lit, and dropped it into her ashtray, ‘There.’
- She turned and headed inside, stubbing her cigarette.
Synonyms
extinguish, put out, douse, smother, choke, stamp out, blow out, quench, stub out, turn out, dampen, damp down
3Dig up (a plant) by the roots.
连根挖

Origin

Old English stub(b) ‘stump of a tree’, of Germanic origin. The verb is first recorded ( late Middle English) in sense 3; stub (sense 1 of the verb) (mid 19th century) was originally a US usage.

词汇	stub
释义	Definition of stub in English: stub nounPlural stubs stʌbstəb 1The truncated remnant of a pencil, cigarette, or similar-shaped object after use. 残端，残余部分；铅笔头；烟蒂，烟屁股 the ashtray was full of stubs a pencil stub the stub of a candle Example sentencesExamples He removed a stub of a pencil and stick of gum from his pants pocket. She hates the millions of cigarette stubs in the sand, but says the water's ‘just lovely’. He rose, and found the stub of a slender blue dinner candle about four inches long. Then she took out a piece of paper and a stub of a pencil. The whole class stopped, their eyes on me, and the teacher turned away from the board and pointed a short stub of blackboard chalk at me. Tommy flicked the stub overboard and raised a brow. Finally he pulled out the piece of paper and stub of a pencil. Are there any others out there who find comfort in the stub of pencil on a string and other mildly eccentric aspects of elections past? Or are they expecting to find a signature or a footprint or a cigarette stub? Firefighters said the man had emptied his cigarette stubs into a bin without checking if they were alight or not. The stub of cigar jutting from his mouth glowed like a malevolent LED. At the village hall a new cigarette stub receptacle was smashed and rubbish bins destroyed. The coffee table was still littered with books and stubs of candles burnt right down to the core. Her thoughts stopped abruptly when someone poked her in the back of her shoulder with the stub of a pencil eraser. Working by candlelight with the stub of his last pencil, he finally achieved the transformation of a humble o into the majestic 0. ‘Not everyone carrying a pencil stub and a piece of paper is a journalist.’ She flicked the cigarette stub into the night. I filled out the application sheet with a pencil stub - an émigré from a miniature golf course. To assemble it, you put the pencil stub into the hole of the spool and stuck the pin straight up in the middle of the eraser. When Amiry was writing her script, her husband hoarded her pencil stubs, revealing his secret stash in Medium of Love. Synonyms butt, end, tail end, remnant informal dog-end, fag end stump, remnant, end, tail end, remains 1.1 A truncated or unusually short thing. 截短物；异常短的东西 he wagged his little stub of tail 他摇动着那条短小的尾巴。 Example sentencesExamples The dog is described as a black and tan Rottweiler-type, with a fluffy coat and a stub tail. Deb harvests cuttings from her potted succulents, leaving short stubs of stem that can be poked through the wreath's outer layer of moss. The rest of his body was almost all wolf, though his feet - his hind paws - were still shrinking, and his tail was little more than a stub. The rope that she had wrapped about her after she had untied the two sheep, had caught on a short broken stub of a branch. Her heart went out to the old man, his stubs of knees settled atop a crudely-made mat of old newspapers and cloth. The dog turned its head, wagged its stub of a tail. The second cut should be outside the first cut, all the way through the branch, leaving a short stub. Roger was a shy, sweet Jewish boy with very short black hair, a little stub of a beard and pierced ears. Don't cut branches flush to the trunk, and don't leave stubs. She took off with the black dog close behind with her little stub of a tail the only thing that he could reach. Don't leave stubs; cut just above side branches that you want to grow. A Siamese had only a stub of a tail, a short-haired spotted cat walked strangely, with only three legs. We mapped the location of exposed branch stubs and branch scars on each stem. 1.2as modifier Denoting a projection or hole that goes only part of the way through a surface. 短突起；浅孔眼 a stub tenon 半榫。 Example sentencesExamples The massive columns were delivered to the site with stub pieces prewelded to them, and the steel beams were bolted to those stubs. Two stub walls with ample storage for china and linens loosely define the seating and dining areas. Is there a minimum or maximum stub length required for Y cables? The rocker arms are roller tipped and ride on needle bearings mounted on individual stub shafts. 2The counterfoil of a cheque, receipt, ticket, or other document. （支票、收据、票据等单据的）票根，存根 retain your ticket stubs he drew out his chequebook and checked the stubs Example sentencesExamples A start to this second approach is no further than a pay stub away. He told me to go into one of his drawers and get out one of his check stubs. The required documents are a proof of address and welfare or cheque stub. I remember the date because I still have the ticket stub from the game. Fans will also have to retain ticket stubs during the game to ensure that they are in the correct seats. The INS recommends that tourists bring hotel receipts and ticket stubs from sightseeing destinations and transportation. Ticket stubs are now hot collector's items, with many fetching unheard-of prices. Don't let anything that's not acid-free, such as ticket stubs, touch your photos. Neither of them would blink an eye at my check stubs or grocery lists. Anyone who has a ticket for the show should hold on to their ticket stub and they will gain entry. How on earth am I going to keep myself from losing the ticket stub? Keep receipts, cheque stubs, credit card statements or similar proof of purchase. Many people use their final pay stub to come up with an estimate. Individual ticket buyers and holders of ticket stubs will have three weeks beginning Aug.8 to submit claims. He nodded, handing me our ticket stubs and passports back. Ticket stubs and star-gazing are her real-life drama. In part, that's because too many of us still find ourselves holding the short end of the pay stub. Coverslips were then coated with gold and attached to an SEM stub with tape or rubber cement before SEM scanning. You can use ticket stubs or ribbons or receipts or photos or envelopes or napkins to mark your place in books. Similarly, a move to online employee pay stubs saved about $2 million. Synonyms counterfoil, ticket slip, detachable portion, coupon, tab, receipt verbstubbed, stubbing, stubs stʌbstəb [with object] 1Accidentally strike (one's toe) against something. 使（脚趾）踢碰 I stubbed my toe, swore, and tripped 我不小心踢到了脚趾，骂了一声，就绊倒了。 Example sentencesExamples Yesterday afternoon, while at work, I got up from my desk and stubbed my toe. The party the day before had been real enough, as had the pain of stubbing his toe on the way up the steps. In fact, my most useful contribution was stopping Ian from swearing when he stubbed his toe in the vestry. Walking forward he stubbed his toe on one of the bookshelves and cursed loudly. That day played vividly in his mind as he walked along, stubbing his toe occasionally on the uneven path. I remember you crying as a little boy when you stubbed your toe. I'm sure I've only sworn occasionally, like after stubbing my toe for the nineteenth time. People are stubbing their toes and feet and falling all over. Lizzie considered she might be dreaming but had second thoughts after stubbing her toe on a ceramic vase. She made her way across the dark room, stubbing her toe on the dresser on her way. Or if you walk backwards, Larry, you'll never stub your toe. To his right, there was a noise, and he moved towards it, stubbing his toe on a pile of rubble in the process. I rubbed my eyes and tumbled out of bed, stubbing my toe on the dresser in the process. Fiona, who had been busy watching her bandaged legs to avoid stubbing her toes on rocks in the road, looked up and around her. I am always stubbing my toe, smashing my arms against walls, tripping over, scratching myself. While she's running, she stubs her toe and falls to the ground. As the last two wives were passing, one of them stubbed her toe against the tortoise's shell and instantly let out a cry of pain. But I'd still rather we didn't have to distract ourselves from our headache by stubbing our toes. Simple hurts like stubbing his toe or getting a paper cut throbbed for hours. Amy cried out as she accidentally stubbed her toe on one of the wooden bedposts. 2Extinguish (a lighted cigarette) by pressing the lighted end against something. 掐灭，捻熄 she stubbed out her cigarette in the overflowing ashtray 她在已经满溢的烟灰缸里掐灭了香烟。 Example sentencesExamples One of the men who had been smoking stubbed his cigarette out on the stall. They plunged hatpins into his bottom, stubbed out cigarettes on his body and swung handbags at his head. He stubbed the second cigarette out and leaned forward. I put the camera into the case and stubbed the cigarette, which was, by then, my fifth. The scene made Lady Peacemaker think of a giant cigarette butt being stubbed out. He stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray near the door. He also visited her grave accompanied by his mother, stubbed out cigarettes and swore at photographers. She stubbed out the cigarette she had just lit, and dropped it into her ashtray, ‘There.’ Sadie bared her teeth and stubbed the cigarette on a nearby table. Someone stubbed a cigarette out on her in a club. She turned and headed inside, stubbing her cigarette. He bent over and stubbed out his cigarette on the tar seal. Declan stubbed out his cigarette with a vicious twist, and then threw up his hands like a disappointed Italian don. All ashtrays must be removed and provision made at the entrance to premises where cigarettes can be stubbed out. Midnight was rescued just outside Swindon in October after children stubbed out cigarettes on his eyes. Isabella stubbed the cigarette on the window ledge and gathered her bag. David said he often found cigarettes stubbed out inside the church and recently found an empty wine bottle. If a smoker refuses to stub their cigarette out security guards will ultimately enforce the ban. Visitors who are not aware of the ban have happily stubbed their cigarettes out when they have been asked by our staff. Kienan stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and lit another, grimacing imperceptibly as he did. Synonyms extinguish, put out, douse, smother, choke, stamp out, blow out, quench, stub out, turn out, dampen, damp down 3Grub up (a plant) by the roots. 连根挖 he was found to have stubbed up a hedge 有人发现他把树篱连根挖起来了。 Origin Old English stub(b) 'stump of a tree', of Germanic origin. The verb is first recorded (late Middle English) in sense 3; sense 1 of the verb (mid 19th century) was originally a US usage. A stub was originally a tree stump. From this developed the general idea of a portion being left behind when something has been removed, such as a counterfoil in a chequebook or a cigarette butt. The verb was initially used in the sense ‘to dig up a plant by the roots’. The meaning ‘to accidentally strike’, as in ‘I stubbed my toe’, was first used in the USA in the mid 19th century. Stubborn may be based on stub, though this is by no means certain. A stub or tree stump is difficult to remove, so there may be a connection. Stubborn originally meant ‘untameable or ruthless’ before the modern meaning, ‘obstinate’, emerged. Rhymes blub, bub, chub, Chubb, club, cub, drub, dub, flub, grub, hub, nub, pub, rub, scrub, shrub, slub, snub, sub, tub Definition of stub in US English: stub nounstəbstəb 1The truncated remnant of a pencil, cigarette, or similar-shaped object after use. 残端，残余部分；铅笔头；烟蒂，烟屁股 Example sentencesExamples I filled out the application sheet with a pencil stub - an émigré from a miniature golf course. She flicked the cigarette stub into the night. At the village hall a new cigarette stub receptacle was smashed and rubbish bins destroyed. Working by candlelight with the stub of his last pencil, he finally achieved the transformation of a humble o into the majestic 0. He rose, and found the stub of a slender blue dinner candle about four inches long. Or are they expecting to find a signature or a footprint or a cigarette stub? Finally he pulled out the piece of paper and stub of a pencil. The coffee table was still littered with books and stubs of candles burnt right down to the core. He removed a stub of a pencil and stick of gum from his pants pocket. ‘Not everyone carrying a pencil stub and a piece of paper is a journalist.’ Are there any others out there who find comfort in the stub of pencil on a string and other mildly eccentric aspects of elections past? Firefighters said the man had emptied his cigarette stubs into a bin without checking if they were alight or not. The whole class stopped, their eyes on me, and the teacher turned away from the board and pointed a short stub of blackboard chalk at me. To assemble it, you put the pencil stub into the hole of the spool and stuck the pin straight up in the middle of the eraser. The stub of cigar jutting from his mouth glowed like a malevolent LED. Her thoughts stopped abruptly when someone poked her in the back of her shoulder with the stub of a pencil eraser. When Amiry was writing her script, her husband hoarded her pencil stubs, revealing his secret stash in Medium of Love. She hates the millions of cigarette stubs in the sand, but says the water's ‘just lovely’. Then she took out a piece of paper and a stub of a pencil. Tommy flicked the stub overboard and raised a brow. Synonyms butt, end, tail end, remnant stump, remnant, end, tail end, remains 1.1 A truncated or unusually short thing. 截短物；异常短的东西 he wagged his little stub of tail 他摇动着那条短小的尾巴。 Example sentencesExamples We mapped the location of exposed branch stubs and branch scars on each stem. Her heart went out to the old man, his stubs of knees settled atop a crudely-made mat of old newspapers and cloth. A Siamese had only a stub of a tail, a short-haired spotted cat walked strangely, with only three legs. The second cut should be outside the first cut, all the way through the branch, leaving a short stub. Roger was a shy, sweet Jewish boy with very short black hair, a little stub of a beard and pierced ears. The dog is described as a black and tan Rottweiler-type, with a fluffy coat and a stub tail. Deb harvests cuttings from her potted succulents, leaving short stubs of stem that can be poked through the wreath's outer layer of moss. The rope that she had wrapped about her after she had untied the two sheep, had caught on a short broken stub of a branch. The rest of his body was almost all wolf, though his feet - his hind paws - were still shrinking, and his tail was little more than a stub. The dog turned its head, wagged its stub of a tail. She took off with the black dog close behind with her little stub of a tail the only thing that he could reach. Don't leave stubs; cut just above side branches that you want to grow. Don't cut branches flush to the trunk, and don't leave stubs. 1.2as modifier Denoting a projection or hole that goes only part of the way through a surface. 短突起；浅孔眼 a stub tenon 半榫。 Example sentencesExamples The massive columns were delivered to the site with stub pieces prewelded to them, and the steel beams were bolted to those stubs. The rocker arms are roller tipped and ride on needle bearings mounted on individual stub shafts. Two stub walls with ample storage for china and linens loosely define the seating and dining areas. Is there a minimum or maximum stub length required for Y cables? 2The part of a check, receipt, ticket, or other document torn off and kept as a record. （支票、收据、票据等单据的）票根，存根 Example sentencesExamples Keep receipts, cheque stubs, credit card statements or similar proof of purchase. The INS recommends that tourists bring hotel receipts and ticket stubs from sightseeing destinations and transportation. Ticket stubs and star-gazing are her real-life drama. A start to this second approach is no further than a pay stub away. Many people use their final pay stub to come up with an estimate. Don't let anything that's not acid-free, such as ticket stubs, touch your photos. He nodded, handing me our ticket stubs and passports back. Fans will also have to retain ticket stubs during the game to ensure that they are in the correct seats. Similarly, a move to online employee pay stubs saved about $2 million. I remember the date because I still have the ticket stub from the game. The required documents are a proof of address and welfare or cheque stub. Anyone who has a ticket for the show should hold on to their ticket stub and they will gain entry. Coverslips were then coated with gold and attached to an SEM stub with tape or rubber cement before SEM scanning. Individual ticket buyers and holders of ticket stubs will have three weeks beginning Aug.8 to submit claims. You can use ticket stubs or ribbons or receipts or photos or envelopes or napkins to mark your place in books. Ticket stubs are now hot collector's items, with many fetching unheard-of prices. How on earth am I going to keep myself from losing the ticket stub? He told me to go into one of his drawers and get out one of his check stubs. Neither of them would blink an eye at my check stubs or grocery lists. In part, that's because too many of us still find ourselves holding the short end of the pay stub. Synonyms counterfoil, ticket slip, detachable portion, coupon, tab, receipt verbstəbstəb [with object] 1Accidentally strike (one's toe) against something. 使（脚趾）踢碰 I stubbed my toe, swore, and tripped 我不小心踢到了脚趾，骂了一声，就绊倒了。 Example sentencesExamples As the last two wives were passing, one of them stubbed her toe against the tortoise's shell and instantly let out a cry of pain. Amy cried out as she accidentally stubbed her toe on one of the wooden bedposts. But I'd still rather we didn't have to distract ourselves from our headache by stubbing our toes. In fact, my most useful contribution was stopping Ian from swearing when he stubbed his toe in the vestry. Or if you walk backwards, Larry, you'll never stub your toe. I'm sure I've only sworn occasionally, like after stubbing my toe for the nineteenth time. People are stubbing their toes and feet and falling all over. While she's running, she stubs her toe and falls to the ground. I rubbed my eyes and tumbled out of bed, stubbing my toe on the dresser in the process. Yesterday afternoon, while at work, I got up from my desk and stubbed my toe. That day played vividly in his mind as he walked along, stubbing his toe occasionally on the uneven path. I am always stubbing my toe, smashing my arms against walls, tripping over, scratching myself. Fiona, who had been busy watching her bandaged legs to avoid stubbing her toes on rocks in the road, looked up and around her. Walking forward he stubbed his toe on one of the bookshelves and cursed loudly. I remember you crying as a little boy when you stubbed your toe. She made her way across the dark room, stubbing her toe on the dresser on her way. Simple hurts like stubbing his toe or getting a paper cut throbbed for hours. Lizzie considered she might be dreaming but had second thoughts after stubbing her toe on a ceramic vase. The party the day before had been real enough, as had the pain of stubbing his toe on the way up the steps. To his right, there was a noise, and he moved towards it, stubbing his toe on a pile of rubble in the process. 2Extinguish (a lighted cigarette) by pressing the lighted end against something. 掐灭，捻熄 she stubbed out her cigarette in the overflowing ashtray 她在已经满溢的烟灰缸里掐灭了香烟。 Example sentencesExamples They plunged hatpins into his bottom, stubbed out cigarettes on his body and swung handbags at his head. Someone stubbed a cigarette out on her in a club. I put the camera into the case and stubbed the cigarette, which was, by then, my fifth. He bent over and stubbed out his cigarette on the tar seal. If a smoker refuses to stub their cigarette out security guards will ultimately enforce the ban. He stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray near the door. Sadie bared her teeth and stubbed the cigarette on a nearby table. He also visited her grave accompanied by his mother, stubbed out cigarettes and swore at photographers. All ashtrays must be removed and provision made at the entrance to premises where cigarettes can be stubbed out. One of the men who had been smoking stubbed his cigarette out on the stall. He stubbed the second cigarette out and leaned forward. Isabella stubbed the cigarette on the window ledge and gathered her bag. Visitors who are not aware of the ban have happily stubbed their cigarettes out when they have been asked by our staff. Midnight was rescued just outside Swindon in October after children stubbed out cigarettes on his eyes. David said he often found cigarettes stubbed out inside the church and recently found an empty wine bottle. Kienan stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and lit another, grimacing imperceptibly as he did. The scene made Lady Peacemaker think of a giant cigarette butt being stubbed out. Declan stubbed out his cigarette with a vicious twist, and then threw up his hands like a disappointed Italian don. She stubbed out the cigarette she had just lit, and dropped it into her ashtray, ‘There.’ She turned and headed inside, stubbing her cigarette. Synonyms extinguish, put out, douse, smother, choke, stamp out, blow out, quench, stub out, turn out, dampen, damp down 3Dig up (a plant) by the roots. 连根挖 Origin Old English stub(b) ‘stump of a tree’, of Germanic origin. The verb is first recorded ( late Middle English) in sense 3; stub (sense 1 of the verb) (mid 19th century) was originally a US usage.
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