亚洲网紅露点

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stub

1

[ stuhb ]

noun

  1. a short projecting part.
  2. a short remaining piece, as of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
  3. (in a checkbook, receipt book, etc.) the inner end of each leaf, for keeping a record of the content of the part filled out and torn away.
  4. the returned portion of a ticket.
  5. the end of a fallen tree, shrub, or plant left fixed in the ground; stump.
  6. something having a short, blunt shape, especially a short-pointed, blunt pen.
  7. something having the look of incomplete or stunted growth, as a horn of an animal.
  8. Bridge. a part-score.


verb (used with object)

stubbed, stubbing.
  1. to strike accidentally against a projecting object:

    I stubbed my toe against the step.

  2. to extinguish the burning end of (a cigarette or cigar) by crushing it against a solid object (often followed by out ):

    He stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray.

  3. to clear of stubs, as land.
  4. to dig up by the roots; grub up (roots).

stub

2

[ stuhb ]

adjective

stub

/ 蝉迟蕦产 /

noun

  1. a short piece remaining after something has been cut, removed, etc

    a cigar stub

  2. the residual piece or section of a receipt, ticket, cheque, etc
  3. the part of a cheque, postal order, receipt, etc, detached and retained as a record of the transaction Also called (in Britain) counterfoil
  4. any short projection or blunted end
  5. the stump of a tree or plant
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to strike (one's toe, foot, etc) painfully against a hard surface
  2. usually foll by out to extinguish (a cigarette or cigar) by pressing the end against a surface
  3. to clear (land) of stubs
  4. to dig up (the roots) of (a tree or bush)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蝉迟耻产顎僢别谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of stub1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English noun stubb(e), Old English stybb, stubb, stebb 鈥渢ree stump鈥; cognate with Middle Low German, Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbi; akin to Old Norse 蝉迟奴蹿谤 鈥渟tump鈥; the verb is derivative of the noun

Origin of stub2

First recorded in 1705鈥15; special use of stub 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of stub1

Old English stubb; related to Old Norse stubbi, Middle Dutch stubbe, Greek stupos stem, stump
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He added stubbing out cigarettes properly was all the more important "with the warm weather and current wildfire warnings".

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The absence of pay stubs 鈥渞aises questions about whether 1Fifty1 deducts employment taxes from its employees鈥 wages, as is required by federal and state law,鈥 the complaint said.

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As she stubbed it out and prepared to go back into the meeting, she saw Tom coming in the opposite direction.

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She said that during her various arrests, she was badly beaten, threatened with being shot in the leg and having a cigarette stubbed out on her back.

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But the breakthrough came from an Embassy cigarette end stubbed out on an ashtray on the living room coffee table.

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