stub (one's) toe

To forcefully and accidentally jam a single toe against a hard surface or object. I couldn't walk for nearly 10 minutes after stubbing my big toe. We're always stubbing our toes on this darn coffee table!

stub (one's) toe against (something)

To forcefully and accidentally jam a single toe against a hard surface or object. I couldn't walk for nearly 10 minutes after stubbing my big toe against the bed post. We're always stubbing our toes against this darned coffee table!

stub (one's) toe on (something)

To forcefully and accidentally jam a single toe against a hard surface or object. I couldn't walk for nearly 10 minutes after stubbing my big toe on the bed post. We're always stubbing our toes on this darned coffee table!

stub out

To extinguish a lit object, especially a cigarette or cigar, by pressing the lit end against a hard surface. A noun or pronoun can be used between "stub" and "out." He stubbed out the cigarette and got up to leave. I'm so sorry, I didn't realize the smoke was bothering you. Let me stub this out.

stub one's toe against something

and stub one's toe on something

to ram one's toe accidentally against some hard object. Don't stub your toe against that brick in the path. Claire stubbed her toe against one of the legs of the sofa. I stubbed my toe on the bottom step.

stub something out

to put out something, such as a cigarette or cigar, by crushing the burning end against a hard object. Max stubbed his cigar out and tossed it into the street. He stubbed out his cigar.

stub out

To extinguish some cigarette, cigar, or similar smoking material by stamping the burning end against a surface: There were no ashtrays around, so I stubbed out the cigarette on the heel of my shoe. If you had told me the smoke from my cigar was bothering you, I would have stubbed it out.

See also: out, stub

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References in periodicals archive

As mentioned in [14], as the position of the stub changes, the first resonant frequency does not change, but the second resonant frequency is affected.

Dual-Band Reconfigurable Antenna for Polarization Diversity

Most ticket stubs contain legal language somewhere on the stub.

Identifying undated ticket stubs: an attempt to recapture baseball history

Second, for satisfactory cover UWB passband, the length of stub 4 needs to be long, hence this stub occupies less space, reducing overall size of the MMR, with a meander line replaced by a uniform line.

A novel compact size UWB bandpass filter with sharp rejection skirt and wide upper-stopband based on multiple-mode-resonator

The filter with shunt open stubs is designed and fabricated, as shown in Fig.

An approach for multi-band bandpass filter design based on asymmetric half-wavelength resonators

The same procedure can be applied to the CPW open-circuited shunt stub shown in Fig.

Stub based equivalent circuit models for even/odd mode dual CRLH unit cells

It just forces the stub base to be ejected more aggressively.

Setting the cam for cold

Instead, the corporate partners will include the income for the partnership's fiscal period and the Stub Period Accrual in their taxation years ending in 2012.

TEI comments on Canadian budget proposals on deferral of corporate tax in respect of investments in partnerships

The seller, listed as Karrfehip on the site, said he had made it clear he was using the match ticket and would only be releasing the stub after the game.

pounds 500 bid for a 'worthless' stub

According to Liquidnet, enforcing transparency of stub quotes could cause market impact for institutional clients from both exposing part of an order to a number of brokers and for investors that have multiple blocks of the same stock to trade.

Buy-side costs may rise under MiFID II - Liquidnet

With the number of retail bankruptcies increasing, the treatment of rent for the period from the date of the bankruptcy filing, through the end of that month, the so-called "stub" rent, can have a large economic impact on landlords and debtors.

Getting stubbed: Collecting rent when tenant claims bankruptcy

With a standard 1" BSP fitting, the Honsberg CRE paddle flow switch can be fitted to any pipe from 1" to 6" diameter just by fitting a 1" BSP stub to the pipe whose flow is to be measured and fitting the flow switch to the stub.

Honsberg cre flow switches

A washington company is helping to stub out the problem of cigarette waste amongst North-East organisations.

No whiffs, no butts, use a stub station

"If they don't dispose of their cigarette stub responsibly, by putting it in a bin or portable ashtray, they are risking being issued with a fine of up to pounds 80 for littering instead."

Don't be the butt of an pounds 80 fine; SMOKING