What does stub mean in English?

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stub Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 the short part of something that is left after the main part has been used, especially a cigarette after it has been smoked or one of the small pieces of paper left in a book from which cheques or tickets have been torn
1 to hurt your toe by hitting it against a hard object by accident
2 the short end which is left after the main part of something has been used or removed, as of a pencil:
- I put the ticket stubs in my pocket after we went into the theater.
3 to hit your foot or toe against a hard object:
- I stubbed my toe on a rock.
4 the short piece of paper left in a cheque book after a cheque has been removed, used as a record of payment:
- Filling in cheque stubs will help you identify where you can cut back.

We have only limited exposures of these substructures, and only the wall stubs of their summit buildings have survived.
If a table continues past one page, repeat all heads and the stub (left-hand) column.
The sample for analysis is deposited on a stainless steel stub and transferred to the source chamber by means of a load-lock.
Unfortunately, its summit building was almost totally demolished by later construction, but at least one interior wall stub with a curtain holder survives.
When commercial actuaries went to work the following day, in contrast, they tabulated policy stubs and turned applicants away for having tubercular parents.
Examples that appear to merge into the spore surface may result from deterioration during stub storage.
The same stubs were then stored for three weeks and scanned again.
The specimens were dehydrated in alcohol, submitted to critical point drying, mounted on stubs and coated with gold-palladium.