stub

英 [stʌb] 美[stʌb]

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复数: stubs;第三人称单数: stubs;过去式: stubbed;过去分词: stubbed;现在分词: stubbing;

1. steep => stub => stubble.

stub 烟蒂，存根，票根

来自古英语 stybb,树桩，树墩，来自 Proto-Germanic*stubjaz,树桩，树墩，来自 PIE*steu,推，击，打，词源同 study,stupid,type.引申词义烟蒂，存根，票根等。

stub (n.): Old English stybb "stump of a tree," from Proto-Germanic *stubjaz (cognates: Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr), from PIE root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see steep (adj.)). Extended 14c. to other short, thick, protruding things. Meaning "remaining part of something partially consumed" is from 1520s.
stub (v.): mid-15c., "dig up stumps, dig up by the roots," from stub (n.). The sens of "strike (one's toe) against" something projecting from a surface is first recorded 1848. Meaning "to extinguish a cigarette" is from 1927. Related: Stubbed; stubbing.

1. Signs across the entrances warn all visitors to stub out their cigarettes.: 入口处的告示牌提醒游客们熄灭香烟。