stub

IPA: stˈʌb

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.
(programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
(computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
(typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) A Wikipedia article 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.

(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.

Examples of "stub" in Sentences

In all but a couple of cases, the issued stub is present.
Instead, start with a "stub" -- an article only a sentence or two long.
How much would a pristine ticket stub from a mooseyak event be worth in 100 yrs?
Such code is sometimes called a stub, and is incorporated for the purposes of extensibility - extending the capabilities of the code later on.
He taped a pay stub from the $4,000-a-year teaching job into his helmet and, "I used that as a motivation tool, to know I'd burned my bridges."
Then I asked for a pencil (a stub is all they’ll give you) and some note paper (about 4 inches square is the size I got), and drew a surrealistic view of the sink.
But they cut my phone off anyway this afternoon, with no warning, and now I have to wait 48 hours after recieiving my fax with the paid stub from the bank before they'll turn it on.
I was particularly pleased to be featured in Analog, my late father's favorite magazine -- I still have the check stub from the gift subscription my father bought me when I was 13 (a year for $4.00).