[
US
/ˈstəb/
]
[ UK /stˈʌb/ ]
[ UK /stˈʌb/ ]
NOUN
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a small piece
a nub of coal
a stub of a pencil - the part of a check that is retained as a record
- a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
VERB
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
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strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken -
clear of weeds by uprooting them
stub a field -
extinguish by crushing
stub out your cigarette now
How To Use stub In A Sentence
- I have a lot of my father in me and I am as stubborn as a mule. Times, Sunday Times
- They are weird stubby boats, and you have to do a lot more work to propel and keep them on a straight course through the water.
- He wears tee shirts and a designer stubble and is always two steps ahead of himself.
- I'm too stubborn to admit that I'm in love with him.
- There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII
- The stube, or stove, of a German inn, derived its name from the great hypocaust, which is always strongly heated to secure the warmth of the apartment in which it is placed. Anne of Geierstein
- Roger appeared with a plump stubborn Welsh pony, attached to a funny little cart which he gayly informed them was a "gingle. The Spanish Chest
- The mayor, the imam, the sheik and some stubbled men all took seats around the long table.
- More sweat fell down his stubby chin as he tried to avert his eyes away from her steady gaze.
- We can have it come right off our paystub bi-weekly if we so choose .... everyone's doing it you know, blech. Miscellaneous
