The difference between Skeleton and Stub
When used as nouns, skeleton means the system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals, whereas stub means something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
When used as verbs, skeleton means to reduce to a skeleton, whereas stub means to remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
check bellow for the other definitions of Skeleton and Stub
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Skeleton as a noun (anatomy):
The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
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Skeleton as a noun:
An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
Examples:
"She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween."
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Skeleton as a noun (figuratively):
A very thin person.
Examples:
"She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton."
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Skeleton as a noun (figuratively):
The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
Examples:
"The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone."
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Skeleton as a noun (architecture):
A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
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Skeleton as a noun (computing):
A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
Examples:
"In [[remote method invocation]], the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’."
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Skeleton as a noun (geometry):
The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
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Skeleton as a noun (printing):
A very thin form of light-faced type.
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Skeleton as a verb (archaic):
to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
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Skeleton as a verb (archaic):
to minimize
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Skeleton as a noun (sports, uncountable):
A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge).
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Stub as a noun:
Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
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Stub as a noun:
A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
Examples:
"check stub'', ''ticket stub'', ''payment stub"
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Stub as a noun (computing):
A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
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Stub as a noun (computing):
A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
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Stub as a noun ([[wiki]]s):
A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
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Stub as a noun:
The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
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Stub as a noun:
An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
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Stub as a noun (obsolete):
A log; a block; a blockhead.
Examples:
"rfquotek Milton"
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Stub as a noun:
A pen with a short, blunt nib.
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Stub as a noun:
A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
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Stub as a noun:
The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
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Stub as a verb:
To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
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Stub as a verb:
To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
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Stub as a verb:
To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
Examples:
"I stubbed my toe trying to find the light switch in the dark."