Hub meaning

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A center of activity or interest; a focal point.

Hollywood is the hub of the US movie industry.

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Boston, Massachusetts. Used with the .
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The center part of a wheel, etc.; the part fastened to the axle, or turning on it.
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The definition of a hub is the center of something.

An example of a hub is the center of a wheel.

An example of a hub is an intersection of roads with many popular restaurants.

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A center of interest, importance, or activity.
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A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
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The center part of a wheel, fan, or propeller.
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An airport that serves as a central connecting point through which many flights of a particular airline are routed.
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A central point of interconnection for devices on a local area network (LAN) or LAN segment. Hubs act as passive LAN concentrators and repeaters, with a single internal collapsed backbone bus typically running at a signaling rate of 10/100 Mbps. LAN-attached devices such as workstations, peripherals, and servers typically connect to a hub via either unshielded twisted pair (UTP) or shielded twisted pair (STP). Hubs operate at Layer 1, the Physical Layer of the OSI Reference Model. Filtering hubs also operate at a portion of Layer 2, the Data Link Layer. See also 10Base-T, 100Base-T, concentrator, Data Link Layer, LAN, OSI Reference Model, Physical Layer, repeater, STP, and UTP.
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The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
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A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted.

Hongkong airport is one of the most important air traffic hubs in Asia.

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(computing) A computer networking device connecting several ethernet ports. See switch.
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(surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
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A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
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(US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.

A hub in the road.

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A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
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A screw hob.
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(place, geo, epithet) the Hub
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

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Origin of hub

  • After a scene in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858), a dialogue collection by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in which a character summarizes the civic pride of Bostonians with the phrase Boston State-House is the Hub of the Solar System

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Probably alteration of hob

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown.

    From Wiktionary

Hub Sentence Examples

  • Greenie's holed up in the hub trying to figure out what to do.

  • The road edged a thatch of forest past the water treatment plant and the power plant, and circled the central command hub in which she worked before leading to the main entrance of the compound.

  • Kalat is the " hub " or centre, from which radiate the Bolan, the Mulla and the southern Lora affluents; but the Lora drains also the Pishin valley on the north; the two systems uniting in Shorawak, to lose themselves in the desert and swamps to the west of Nushki, on the road to Seistan.

  • Heart pounding hard, she turned to face her destination: the command hub, where all emergency operations and critical infrastructure back-up networks and systems for the East Coast were routed in a time of crisis.

  • Take a count this afternoon after the hub's clear.

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