stub
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
Types & categories
- plant part hypernym
Sense 2 verb
pull up (weeds) by their roots
Types & categories
- root out hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a small piece
a nub of coal
Types & categories
Sense 4 verb
extinguish by crushing
stub out your cigarette now
Types & categories
- quench hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
Types & categories
- receipt hypernym
- rain check hyponym
Sense 6 verb
clear of weeds by uprooting them
stub a field
Types & categories
- weed hypernym
Sense 7 noun
the part of a check that is retained as a record
Types & categories
- record hypernym
Sense 8 verb
strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken
Types & categories
- impinge on hypernym
Sense 9 noun
the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
Types & categories
- part hypernym
- cigar butt hyponym
- cigarette butt hyponym
- roach hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | plant part |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | root out |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | part |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | nubbin |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | quench |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | receipt |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | rain check |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | weed |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | record |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | impinge on |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | part |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | cigar butt |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | cigarette butt |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | roach |