Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A protuberance or knob.
- noun A small lump.
- noun The essence; the core.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To push.
- To beckon.
- To hang (Davies); nab.
- noun A knob; a protuberance.
- noun In cotton- and wool-carding, a snarl; an entanglement; a knot; a knub.
- noun Point; pith; gist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To push; to nudge; also, to beckon.
- noun colloq. A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Internet, slang A
noob ; a newcomer or incompetent. - noun obsolete The innermost section of a
chrysalis in a silkcocoon . - noun A small
lump orknob . - noun The
essence orcore of an issue, argument etc. - noun slang The
clitoris . - verb baseball To
hit the ballweakly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- noun a small lump or protuberance
- noun a small piece
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The nub is that whatever the presenter may think, people were offended - both in the talk and those who saw the slides later.
Attracting Women to Rails Peggy 2009
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The diagram also shows that a rod should be pushed ideally 1. 25W, although because each nub is of length W, the push amount could theoretically range from fractionally more than 0. 25W to fractionally less than 2. 25W.
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In Palladium this is actually something called a "nub" -- in their marketing materials a "Trusted Operating Root" or "TOR" -- but we can pretend it's the OS kernel instead.
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That 'nub' is so ingeniously, so casually, flung in, and immediately left there in the tail of the letter, undwelt upon, that an indifferent reader would never suspect that it was the heart and core of the epistle, if he even took note of it at all, This is the 'nub' --
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872
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That 'nub' is so ingeniously, so casually, flung in, and immediately left there in the tail of the letter, undwelt upon, that an indifferent reader would never suspect that it was the heart and core of the epistle, if he even took note of it at all, This is the 'nub' --
Life on the Mississippi, Part 11. Mark Twain 1872
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That 'nub' is so ingeniously, so casually, flung in, and immediately left there in the tail of the letter, undwelt upon, that an indifferent reader would never suspect that it was the heart and core of the epistle, if he even took note of it at all, This is the 'nub' --
Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872
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That 'nub' is so ingeniously, so casually, flung in, and immediately left there in the tail of the letter, undwelt upon, that an indifferent reader would never suspect that it was the heart and core of the epistle, if he even took note of it at all, This is the 'nub' --
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I hoard them, using them till the nub is so short I can’t grip it anymore.
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We have nepeta that self sows about the garden and it is usually chewed to the nub, which is fine by me.
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Kitteh needz moer hairgell to beet Christian… And wif doz teefs I wouldna want to be himz stylist… draw bak a nub from da poyntee endz!
Tunite - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
oroboros commented on the word nub
Bun in reverse.
November 3, 2007