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• Stub Toe State — Montana …   Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games

• stub your toe — to hurt your toe by hitting it against something She stubbed her toe against/on the leg of the chair. • • • Main Entry: ↑stub …   Useful english dictionary

• Stub — may refer to: * Stub or stubb, a low pollard, a tree cut and allowed to regrow from the trunk (the origin of most other meanings) *Method stub, in computer programming, a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality… …   Wikipedia

• stub — [stub] n. [ME < OE stybb, akin to ON stubbr: for IE base see STOCK] 1. the stump of a tree or plant 2. a short piece or length remaining after the main part has been removed or used up [the stub of a tail, cigar, pencil, etc.] 3. any short… …   English World dictionary

• stub — ► NOUN 1) the remnant of a pencil, cigarette, or similar shaped object after use. 2) a shortened or unusually short thing. 3) the counterfoil of a cheque, ticket, or other document. ► VERB (stubbed, stubbing) 1) accidentally strike (one s toe)… …   English terms dictionary

• stub — (n.) O.E. stybb stump of a tree, from P.Gmc. *stubjaz (Cf. M.Du. stubbe, O.N. stubbr), from PIE root * (s)teu (see STEEP (Cf. steep) (adj.)). Extended in M.E. to other short, thick things. The verb sense of strike (one s toe) against something is …   Etymology dictionary

• stub — stub1 [stʌb] n [: Old English; Origin: stybb] 1.) the short part of something long and thin, such as a cigarette or pencil, that is left when the rest has been used ▪ a pencil stub 2.) the part of a ticket that is given back to you after it has… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• toe — n. 1) to stub one s toe on 2) to curl one s toes 3) the big; little toe 4) (misc.) to keep on one s toes ( to be alert ) to tread on smb. s toes ( to offend smb. ) * * * [təʊ] little toe the big to curl one s toes to stub one s toe on (misc.) to… …   Combinatory dictionary

• toe — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big ▪ The shoe pressed painfully against her big toe. ▪ little, pinky (AmE) ▪ bare ▪ Under his bare toes the …   Collocations dictionary

• stub — 1 noun (C) 1 the short part that is left when the rest of something long and thin, such as a cigarette or pencil, has been used 2 the part of a ticket that is returned to you after it has been torn, as proof that you have paid 3 a piece of a… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• stub — [[t]stʌ̱b[/t]] stubs, stubbing, stubbed 1) N COUNT: with supp The stub of a cigarette or a pencil is the last short piece of it which remains when the rest has been used. He pulled the stub of a pencil from behind his ear. ...an ashtray of… …   English dictionary