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stubby

How to use stubby in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for stubby.

Editorial note

Or the fact that UI elements are too small for big stubby pointing implements like fingers?

Examples18
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

short and blunt; "stubby fingers"; "a stubby pencil"

Meaning at a glance

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

adjective

short and blunt; "stubby fingers"; "a stubby pencil"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stubby.

adjective

short and blunt; "stubby fingers"; "a stubby pencil"

Example sentences

1

Or the fact that UI elements are too small for big stubby pointing implements like fingers?

2

I'm a fellow with big palms and stubby fingers, and it feels just fine. In an effort to answer both questions at once.

3

The square one looks stubby and a little awkward. I would say that perfectly square windows are just as rare as windows that are wider than they are tall.

4

It will be interesting to see the analytics of the sale in a long term model, and see if there is a long tail, or if it's just a stubby tail. Like many, I hope that it is long.

5

So a short and stubby bar means a durable old dumbphone; broad and flat means a BlackBerry or an iPhone. Pity the poor guy whose bar of soap is the size and shape of a Samsung Galaxy Note."

6

I just don't bother voting anymore on iDevices until there is at least a 40x40 button I can use with my stubby fingers.

7

I'm afraid stubby fingers on compensating scaled objects is not adequate always.

8

Google's "stubby" technology hasn't been talked of publicly before has it ? ?

9

Need a stand to watch a movie on a long flight: add some stubby wing pieces from my Y-Wing set. Need a way to hold the phone on a stand for Facetime between the toddler and Grandma: a few extra pieces of lego and a rubber band.

10

Com/jkassemi/stubby. I like the concept of this long term allowing me to specify a single url and toggle the environment of the API I'm hitting from a remote, secure web interface.

11

What do you do when your too tall for the whiteboard because some short stubby interviewer placed it lower than normal to accomodate his stubbiness.

12

I was a pretty active editor in the early days, mostly building out articles on Jazz musicians that were particularly stubby. I had a watchlist of pages I cared about and everything.

13

A particularly long phone which yields at 70lb of force has actually performed better than a stubby one which yields at 70lb in this case. Hopefully I didn't just say anything too wrong or confusing, because I'm not going to notice until the morning...

14

It's a big stretch even to get most teams to offer a stubby service to get programmatic access to their data and computations. Most of them think they're building products. And a stubby service is a pretty pathetic service.

15

I'd bet wider faces correlate with other things that should be controlled for, like being stubby and short, thus having more muscle than other people in your weight class. Maybe teenage anabolic steroid use both widens your face and leads to steroid abuse as an adult which gives you an advantage in the UFC[1]?

16

I would wholeheartedly disagree - I think this is a great example of where you should break from common desktop norms and provide something which is easier for a big stubby thumb to use.

17

My guitar teacher was a tiny gnome of a man with small hands and stubby fingers, and he played through the same stretch without a problem while showing me something else. I asked him to show me and he said "yeah, it's a bit of a stretch, that one", but it hammered home that it's more about practice than physical limitation.

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Offices have very little requirements for scheduling and the product would have to so much "better" than stubby pencil or excel that it is hard to drive usage. On the other hand service industries with volume concerns are so in depth with regards to scheduling that the product must integrate projections and production demands.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use stubby in a sentence?

Or the fact that UI elements are too small for big stubby pointing implements like fingers?

What does stubby mean?

short and blunt; "stubby fingers"; "a stubby pencil"

What part of speech is stubby?

stubby is commonly used as adjective.