Stub vs Null - What's the difference?
stub | null |
Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
* Dryden
A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
(computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. (
* 1996 , Chip Weems, Nell Dale, Pascal :
(computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing. (
* 2002 , Judith M Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware :
(wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
(obsolete) A log; a block; a blockhead.
A pen with a short, blunt nib.
A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
pillar
column (upright supporting beam)
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between stub and null
is that stub is something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb stub
is to remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.stub
English
(wikipedia stub)Noun
(en noun)- And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.
- check stub'', ''ticket stub'', ''payment stub
[http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN185233570X&id=t4ZkqmbLHMMC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=stub+procedure+-remote&sig=SZtMm8JhyE9HUVlKbp-U_TG2-hY], [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0763707929&id=X_VlpfGoQRgC&pg=PA352&lpg=PA352&dq=stub+procedure+-remote&sig=oppYeiiRBcoPAkpkxZcbpcyaXIA).
- Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.
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- After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.
- (Milton)
Hyponyms
* stubble * stumpAntonyms
* (computer) skeleton (4)Derived terms
* pencil stub * pay stubVerb
(stubb)- I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.
Derived terms
* unstubbedReferences
External links
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* * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==Alternative forms
*Noun
Declension
{{sh-decl-noun , stub, stubovi , stuba, stubova , stubu, stubovima , stub, stubove , stube, stubovi , stubu, stubovima , stubom, stubovima }}null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.