stub

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Editorial note

Why not stub out any global like this though?

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Quick take

a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stub gathered in one view.

noun

a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost

noun

a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil"

noun

a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stub.

noun

a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost

noun

a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil"

noun

a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt

noun

the part of a check that is retained as a record

noun

the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

verb

pull up (weeds) by their roots

verb

extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now"

verb

clear of weeds by uprooting them; "stub a field"

verb

strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object; "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken"

Example sentences

Why not stub out any global like this though?

But it does download a stub copy of iOS.

So you get a call from the code to the stub, a few guards, and another dispatch from the stub to the target.

Half the time, that leads to auto-generated stub articles about small towns in the middle of nowhere.

On the client side, when you dispatch a function call on a "stub" object, you'd like to dispatch a real function call on a remote object.

I bet their automated system is re-inserting GA code every time it updates their stub.

LinkedIn has a stub page saying "I don't really use linkedin".His 'About' page has this: "I worked as an entrepreneur from 2004 to 2008".

Nonetheless, if you gave me a state machine with ad hoc context management, no history and no reasonable way to generate test stubs, I'd barf too.

You can download a stub near-instantaneously, do things like pick your install directory, and then forget about the install process entirely as it completes without your supervision.

So I shipped that game with stub code at the very start of main that immediately saved off the 1 byte from the freshly loaded executable in the place I knew it would overwrite for that particular version of the exe. There was then code that would run each frame after audio had run and restore that byte back to what it should be just in case it had been stomped that frame.

Disappointingly, but expectedly, the stub website for Calico further reinforces the point that they are not likely to soon take any path that will produce meaningful results for human longevity.

If the citizens vote for a 50% income tax then that is what they should see on their payment stub.> Being from Europe originally and having lived in Silicon Valley now for more than 10 years, I did the math on comparative taxes.