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hub

Pronunciation: /hʌb/

The English word “hub” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
  2. A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
  3. A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
  4. A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
  5. A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
  6. A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
  7. A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
  8. An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
  9. A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
  10. A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
  11. A screw hob.
  12. A block for scotching a wheel.

Etymology

From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown. Compare German Hubbel (“bump on a surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hubil (“bump, hill”) (which contains a diminutive suffix *-il); compare English hive, or perhaps ultimately from the same root as hip or hop.

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