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hub
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What does hub mean?
noun
- The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
- A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
- A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
More meanings (12)
noun
- A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
- A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
- A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
- An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
- A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
- A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
- A screw hob.
- A block for scotching a wheel.
proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Hub.
- (informal) Nickname for Boston: a major city in Massachusetts, United States.
- Pornhub.
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IPA pronunciation
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In so doing, she gives the spokes a solid common support, something like the hub of our carriage-wheels.
The shock administered by the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the nut no longer held firm.
More book examples (3)
Put a blindfolded player in the center for a hub, and turn him about a number of times, as is done in "Blindman's Buff."
If the line representing the greatest depth of the angle is kept the same width as it approaches the hub, the pitch will be uniform.
While "It" takes his place at the hub of the wheel, the other players scatter around the circumference or rim, and the word "ready" is given.