hub
/hʌb/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.08 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
noun
A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
noun
An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
Example Sentences
- "If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool."
- "Hong Kong International Airport is one of the most important air traffic hubs in Asia."
- "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."
- "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."
- "a hub in the road"
- "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."
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.
Usage
Inflected Forms
hubs (plural)
the hub (canonical)