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

He wrote his diary with a stub.
He threw away a stub on the floor.
I will stub him very perfunctorily.
Thanks for doing the dab and the stub.
Anyone with the expertise to expand the stub
The doctor threw away the stub in the garbage.
The stub status of the article isn't the issue.
The stub is often replaced with the long pencil.
The consequent evolution of the two stubs is trivial.
In all but a couple of cases, the issued stub is present.
The discussion page of the stub indicates that pedagogue stub is wrong.
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).