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stub
Noun
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A stub is a short piece of something left when the rest has been used.
He chewed on the stub of his pencil.
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A stub is the part of a ticket or cheque that you keep.
He put the ticket stub into his pocket and entered the theatre.
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A stub is something short and blunt.
They cut off the branch, leaving a small stub.
In Wiktionary and Wikipedia, a stub is an article that is short and not complete.
He was angry, because the article he needed for his homework was just a stub.
stub
Verb
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To stub is to put out something burning by crushing it.
Before entering the building, he had to stub out his cigarette.
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If you stub your toe, you hit it hard against something.
I was scared walking in bare feet, because I could stub my toe.
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To stub is to pull out by the roots.
The farmer needed to stub his field before he could plant a new crop.
toe
Noun
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A toe is a little part of a foot, like a finger. A foot has 5 toes.
This shoe is too small -- it gives me pain in my toes.