hub

Meaning

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. (US) 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.

Name

Alternative letter-case form of Hub.

Synonyms

nave

centre

center

pivot

omphalos

midpoint

heart

❤️

core

socket

boss

focus

junction

commencement

electrode

focal point

focusing

focussing

founder

fount

fountainhead

fulcrum

head

hilum

hob

hub station

jack

key position

lift

mainspring

mandrel

mandril

middle

middle point

navel

nucleus

occasion

origin

originator

pole

progenitor

rabbet

reason

root

shaft

source

spindle

terminal

umbilicus

center of attention

crosshairs

Translations

moyeu

Nabe

naaf

Hub

concentrateur

mozzo

Radnabe

cubo

centro

bus

🚌

hub

pivot

centro

cubo

hub

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hʌb/

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.