Definition of Hub

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Definition of Hub

Hub

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.

The hilt of a weapon.

A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.

A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

A screw hob. See Hob, 3.

A block for scotching a wheel.

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Hub Quotations

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
C. Wright Mills

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
Elizabeth Bowen

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.
Gerard Arpey

We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network.
Gerard Arpey

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
Mel Torme

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
Diane Glancy

Hub Translations

hub in Dutch is bus, naaf
hub in French is moyeu
hub in German is Nabe, Nabe, Wickelkern
hub in Norwegian is nav
hub in Portuguese is cubo
hub in Swedish is centrum, hjulnav, dator hub, nav

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