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Noun stub has 5 senses
- stub - a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
--1 is a kind of plant part, plant structure
- nub, stub - a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil"
--2 is a kind of part, piece
--2 has particulars: nubbin
- stub, ticket stub - a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
--3 is a kind of receipt
--3 has particulars: rain check
- stub, check stub, counterfoil - the part of a check that is retained as a record
--4 is a kind of record
- butt, stub - the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
--5 is a kind of part, portion
--5 has particulars: cigar butt; cigarette butt; roach
Verb stub has 1 sense
- stub, scrape, skin, abrade - strike against an object; "She stubbed her one's toe in the dark and now it's broken"
--1 is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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