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Hub
Definitions
- 1 Alternative letter-case form of Hub. alt-of
- 2 Nickname for Boston: a major city in Massachusetts, United States. informal
- 3 Pornhub. Internet, euphemistic
"It will eventually, the Hub will replace every video site since it has everything for let's plays to porn."
- 1 The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
"If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool."
- 2 the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc.) through which the shaft or axle passes wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve wordnet
- 5 A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
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- 6 A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- 7 A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
- 8 A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
- 9 A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction. US
"a hub in the road"
- 10 An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
"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."
- 11 A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
- 12 A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
- 13 A screw hob.
- 14 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.
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.
From hub.
Clipping of Pornhub, from hub.
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