Stub
noun
A short piece left after a larger part has been used or removed.
He flicked his cigarette stub into the street.
Often appears as...
- cigarette stub
- ticket stub
noun
A part of a cheque, ticket, or other document kept for record.
Keep your ticket stub in case you lose your luggage.
Often appears as...
- ticket stub
- cheque stub
verb
To accidentally hit your toe against something.
I stubbed my toe on the leg of the table.
Often appears as...
- stub your toe
- stub your foot
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Disapproving
noun
The base of a tree left projecting from the ground after most of the trunk has fallen or been cut down.
A tree stub was all that was left after the storm.
Often appears as...
- tree stub
- stump
noun
A short piece left after a larger part has been used or removed.
He flicked his cigarette stub into the street.
Often appears as...
- cigarette stub
- ticket stub
noun
A part of a cheque, ticket, or other document kept for record.
Keep your ticket stub in case you lose your luggage.
Often appears as...
- ticket stub
- cheque stub
verb
To accidentally hit your toe against something.
I stubbed my toe on the leg of the table.
Often appears as...
- stub your toe
- stub your foot
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
The base of a tree left projecting from the ground after most of the trunk has fallen or been cut down.
A tree stub was all that was left after the storm.
Often appears as...
- tree stub
- stump
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Visualize Shortness
Picture something small remaining when the main part is gone to understand 'stub' better.
After finishing the candle, a stub was left.
Pro Tip 2/2Everyday Objects
Think of common items like pencils, cigarettes, and tickets where 'stub' describes the small leftover part.
She held the pencil stub between her fingers.
Pro Tip 1/2Visualize Shortness
Picture something small remaining when the main part is gone to understand 'stub' better.
After finishing the candle, a stub was left.
Pro Tip 2/2Everyday Objects
Think of common items like pencils, cigarettes, and tickets where 'stub' describes the small leftover part.
She held the pencil stub between her fingers.
Pro Tip 1/2Visualize Shortness
Picture something small remaining when the main part is gone to understand 'stub' better.
After finishing the candle, a stub was left.
Pro Tip 2/2Everyday Objects
Think of common items like pencils, cigarettes, and tickets where 'stub' describes the small leftover part.
She held the pencil stub between her fingers.
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Restoring a lost sense...
why do you want pain and and for me it is it is a it's it's an essential part of life well it's interesting to hear you talk about that because i feel like you know there's part of you when you stub your toe you know i think most of us who haven't gone through an experience like yours brandon which you know you have those moments
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Jonathan Harris: The web...
and I've been keeping them for about the last eight or nine years. They accompany me wherever I go in my life, and I fill them with all sorts of things, records of my lived so watercolor paintings, drawings of what I see, dead flowers, dead insects, pasted ticket stubs, rusting coins,
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How do animals...
the searing pain of a stubbed toe, and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many types of pain and have multiple ways of treating it. But what about other species? How do the animals all around us experience pain? It's important that we find out.
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Why you should know how...
Imagine how much better you could negotiate for a raise if you knew everybody's salary. Economists warn that information asymmetry can cause markets to go awry. Someone leaves a pay stub on the copier, and suddenly everybody is shouting at each other.
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What we learned from 5...
Actually, we're not going to have to talk, we're just going to show you all the slides and remain silent. This person was interested in the history of frustration. There's various types of frustration. If you stub your toe, that's a one A "argh."
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How technology has...
of fury I just put down really rocked her world not the case in fact the garage is under the bedroom and parents are home in the garage doors coming up so I run out the back door as they come in the front door get outside stubs and Martinez are
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Mating frenzies, sperm...
creating the stubs that establish her royal status. Then, she starts digging a descending tunnel ending in a chamber. Here the queen begins laying her eggs, about ten per day, and the first larvae hatch within a week. Over the next three weeks,
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Why Medicine Often Has...
like cancer and stroke, are there important differences between men and women that we could be utilizing? Or even, why is it that some people get those runny noses more than others, or why the pain medication that we give to those stubbed toes
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T. Rex Granddaddy PIPE...
comes to life it's obviously very athletic creatures by looking at its body form the arms have gone long or quite long for the size of this animal T Rex's arms were more like two fingered stubs the interesting question is not so
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Aaron Morris: How your...
As anyone who’s stubbed a toe in the dark or spent an hour searching for their keys knows we're often limited by what we can or cannot see.
Video examples
Restoring a lost sense...
why do you want pain and and for me it is it is a it's it's an essential part of life well it's interesting to hear you talk about that because i feel like you know there's part of you when you stub your toe you know i think most of us who haven't gone through an experience like yours brandon which you know you have those moments
Video examples
Jonathan Harris: The web...
and I've been keeping them for about the last eight or nine years. They accompany me wherever I go in my life, and I fill them with all sorts of things, records of my lived so watercolor paintings, drawings of what I see, dead flowers, dead insects, pasted ticket stubs, rusting coins,
Video examples
How do animals...
the searing pain of a stubbed toe, and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many types of pain and have multiple ways of treating it. But what about other species? How do the animals all around us experience pain? It's important that we find out.
Video examples
Why you should know how...
Imagine how much better you could negotiate for a raise if you knew everybody's salary. Economists warn that information asymmetry can cause markets to go awry. Someone leaves a pay stub on the copier, and suddenly everybody is shouting at each other.
Video examples
What we learned from 5...
Actually, we're not going to have to talk, we're just going to show you all the slides and remain silent. This person was interested in the history of frustration. There's various types of frustration. If you stub your toe, that's a one A "argh."
Video examples
How technology has...
of fury I just put down really rocked her world not the case in fact the garage is under the bedroom and parents are home in the garage doors coming up so I run out the back door as they come in the front door get outside stubs and Martinez are
Video examples
Mating frenzies, sperm...
creating the stubs that establish her royal status. Then, she starts digging a descending tunnel ending in a chamber. Here the queen begins laying her eggs, about ten per day, and the first larvae hatch within a week. Over the next three weeks,
Video examples
Why Medicine Often Has...
like cancer and stroke, are there important differences between men and women that we could be utilizing? Or even, why is it that some people get those runny noses more than others, or why the pain medication that we give to those stubbed toes
Video examples
T. Rex Granddaddy PIPE...
comes to life it's obviously very athletic creatures by looking at its body form the arms have gone long or quite long for the size of this animal T Rex's arms were more like two fingered stubs the interesting question is not so
Video examples
Aaron Morris: How your...
As anyone who’s stubbed a toe in the dark or spent an hour searching for their keys knows we're often limited by what we can or cannot see.
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Eddie Trunk
American Entertainer
When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing - to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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Valerie Jarrett
American Lawyer
By 30, I was separated from my husband, and I clearly remember sitting in my lovely office with a magnificent view, staring at a very lucrative pay stub, and bursting into tears because I was just miserable. So I had to make a decision: Keep following my plan, or be honest with myself and search for my true passion.
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Joanna Scott
American Author
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
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Fred Silverman
American Producer
You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.
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Parvathy
Indian Actress
The lack of exposure to right perspective has caused me to be in abusive relationships. When a boy stubbed cigarette on my leg, I thought it was out of love. You know why? Because our films taught us slapping in the face was a way of expressing love.
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Betty White
American Actress
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.
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Charles Kettering
American Inventor
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
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Alice Levine
British Entertainer
I sometimes stop and wonder if I have a superhumanly high pain threshold and I just don't know it... But then I stub my toe and think probably not.
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Auli'i Cravalho
American Actress
It's 'ow,' like, you stubbed your toe. 'Lee,' like Bruce Lee. Then, you add an 'e.' Auli'i Cravalho.
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Gloria Steinem
American Activist
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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Eddie Trunk
American Entertainer
When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing - to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
Quote examples
Valerie Jarrett
American Lawyer
By 30, I was separated from my husband, and I clearly remember sitting in my lovely office with a magnificent view, staring at a very lucrative pay stub, and bursting into tears because I was just miserable. So I had to make a decision: Keep following my plan, or be honest with myself and search for my true passion.
Quote examples
Joanna Scott
American Author
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
Quote examples
Fred Silverman
American Producer
You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.
Quote examples
Parvathy
Indian Actress
The lack of exposure to right perspective has caused me to be in abusive relationships. When a boy stubbed cigarette on my leg, I thought it was out of love. You know why? Because our films taught us slapping in the face was a way of expressing love.
Quote examples
Betty White
American Actress
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.
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Charles Kettering
American Inventor
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
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Alice Levine
British Entertainer
I sometimes stop and wonder if I have a superhumanly high pain threshold and I just don't know it... But then I stub my toe and think probably not.
Quote examples
Auli'i Cravalho
American Actress
It's 'ow,' like, you stubbed your toe. 'Lee,' like Bruce Lee. Then, you add an 'e.' Auli'i Cravalho.
Quote examples
Gloria Steinem
American Activist
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Example 1 of 10
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