Stub vs. Driver

Stubnoun

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

Stubnoun

A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.

Stubnoun

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

Stubnoun

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

Stubnoun

(wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.

Stubnoun

The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog

Stubnoun

An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract

Stubnoun

(obsolete) A log or block of wood.

Stubnoun

(obsolete) A blockhead.

Stubnoun

A pen with a short, blunt nib.

Stubnoun

An old and worn horseshoe nail.

Stubnoun

Stub iron.

Stubnoun

The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.

Stubverb

(transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.

Stubverb

(transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.

Stubverb

(transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.

Stubnoun

The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; - applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.

Stubnoun

A log; a block; a blockhead.

Stubnoun

The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.

Stubnoun

A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.

Stubnoun

A pen with a short, blunt nib.

Stubnoun

A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.

Stubverb

To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.

Stubverb

To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.

Stubverb

To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.

Stubnoun

a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost

Stubnoun

a small piece;

Stubnoun

a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt

Stubnoun

the part of a check that is retained as a record

Stubnoun

the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

Stubverb

strike against an object;

Drivernoun

One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.

Drivernoun

Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.

Drivernoun

A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.

Drivernoun

A person who drives some other vehicle.

Drivernoun

(computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.

Drivernoun

(golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.

Drivernoun

(nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.

Drivernoun

A mallet.

Drivernoun

A tamping iron.

Drivernoun

A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.

Drivernoun

A screwdriver.

Drivernoun

One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

Drivernoun

The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle.

Drivernoun

An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

Drivernoun

A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

Drivernoun

The driving wheel of a locomotive.

Drivernoun

The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.

Drivernoun

An implement used for driving;

Drivernoun

the operator of a motor vehicle

Drivernoun

someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle

Drivernoun

a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver

Drivernoun

(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device

Drivernoun

a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee