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stub

English

  1. 🔊 the part of a check that is retained as a record
  2. 🔊 a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
  3. 🔊 a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
  4. 🔊 the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
  5. 🔊 a small piece
    “a nub of coal”
  6. 🔊 strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
    “She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken”
  7. 🔊 clear of weeds by uprooting them
    “stub a field”
  8. 🔊 extinguish by crushing
    “stub out your cigarette now”
  9. 🔊 pull up (weeds) by their roots

Spanish

  1. 🔊 bosquejo stub, outline, sketch
  2. 🔊 esbozo stub, outline, sketch
  3. 🔊 cabo stub, butt, stump (something blunted, stunted, burnt to a stub, or cut short)

Similar words

butt check stub counterfoil ticket stub nub thule ultima thule billhead bitter end book stamp bookplate bottom dollar boundary brand broad arrow brush butt butt end cachet carton of cigarettes cauda caudal appendage caudation check