stub
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 断肢，烟蒂，树桩，残余，存根
- vt.
- 连根拔除，踩熄
演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob.
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- 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.