hub

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

• IPA^(key): /hʌb/

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• Rhymes: -ʌb

hub (plural hubs)

1. The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
   • 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:

     If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.

2. A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.

   Hong Kong International Airport is one of the most important air traffic hubs in Asia.

   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo's port does not look like much. […]   But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka's capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India's southern tip.

   • 2021 May 19, Philip Haigh, “Doncaster enhancements relying on DfT approval”, in RAIL, number 931, page 30:

     Doncaster is a rail hub in every sense. Passenger lines radiate in six directions, there are freight lines that bypass the station, extensive freight yards, a major works, and a rolling stock depot.

3. A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
4. (networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
5. (surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
6. A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
7. (US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.

   a hub in the road

8. (video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
   • 2014, Julian Hazeldine, Speedrun: The Unauthorised History of Sonic The Hedgehog, page 47:

     In a break with tradition, these levels are tackled in any order, with the next act chosen from a semi-random selection machine located in the game's hub area.

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.

• (video games): hub world

• Buh, hbu

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦup]
• Rhymes: -up
• Homophone: hup

hub f

1. genitive plural of houba

hub f

1. genitive plural of huba

hub

1. second-person singular imperative of hubit

Borrowed from English hub.

hub m (invariable)

1. hub (transport, computing)

Unadapted borrowing from English hub.

hub m (plural hubs)

1. (networking) hub (device for connecting multiple Ethernet devices such as they act as a single network segment)

Borrowed from English hub.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxab/ [ˈxaβ̞]
• Rhymes: -ab

hub m (plural hubs)

1. (networking) hub

From Mandarin 壶 (hú) ("pot" or"kettle").

• IPA^(key): /hu˥/

hub

1. a clay pot or vase, especially as used for storing food or water

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)