Stub vs Stum - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between stub and stum

is that stub is something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump while stum is unfermented grape juice; must.

As verbs the difference between stub and stum

is that stub is to remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground while stum is to ferment.

stub

English

(wikipedia stub)

Noun

(en noun)

Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.

* Dryden

And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.

A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.

check stub'', ''ticket stub'', ''payment stub

(computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. ( [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).

* 1996 , Chip Weems, Nell Dale, Pascal :

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.

(computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing. ( [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN3540419454&id=mH4MFwHDRB4C&pg=PA716&lpg=PA716&dq=stub+procedure&sig=r3IGw__iPlskg9HCllA6I4lqX-M], [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0849312728&id=Gc886KgsdcsC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=stub+procedure&sig=x-txczr_KTmgepfZBsxPHy7Vncw)

* 2002 , Judith M Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware :

After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.

(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.

(Milton)

A pen with a short, blunt nib.

A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.

Hyponyms

* stubble * stump

Antonyms

* (computer) skeleton (4)

Derived terms

* pencil stub * pay stub

Verb

(stubb)

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.

I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark.

Derived terms

* unstubbed

References

External links

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Anagrams

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Alternative forms

Noun

pillar

column (upright supporting beam)

Declension

{{sh-decl-noun , stub, stubovi , stuba, stubova , stubu, stubovima , stub, stubove , stube, stubovi , stubu, stubovima , stubom, stubovima }}

stum

English

Noun

Unfermented grape juice; must.

* Ben Jonson

Let our wines, without mixture of stum , be all fine.

* Dryden

And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.

Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.

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, year=1664 , year_published=1835 , author= , title=Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, Volume 1 , page=265 , section=Part II, Canto 1 , pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PsQf26jDVSkC&pg=PA265 , passage=Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum ,
And make it brisk champaign become.

Verb

(en verb)

to ferment

to renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation

We stum our wines to renew their spirits. — Floyer.

References

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

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