stub

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

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

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

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.

A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.

The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.

A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).

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.