Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Hub   /həb/   Listen
noun
Hub  n.  
1.
The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
2.
The hilt of a weapon.
3.
A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. (U.S.) See Hubby.
4.
A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.
5.
(Diesinking) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
6.
A screw hob. See Hob, 3.
7.
A block for scotching a wheel.
8.
The central location within which activities tend to concentrate, or from which activities radiate outward; a focus of activity.
9.
Hence: (Aeronautics) A large airport used as a central transfer station for an airline, permitting economic air transportation between remote locations by directing travellers through the hub, often changing planes at the hub, and thus keeping the seat occupancy rate on the airplanes high. The hub together with the feeder lines from remote locations constitute the so-called hub and spoke system of commercial air passenger transportation. A commercial airline may have more than one such hub.
10.
The city of Boston, Massachusetts referred to locally by the nickname The Hub.
Hub plank (Highway Bridges), a horizontal guard plank along a truss at the height of a wagon-wheel hub.
Up to the hub, as far as possible in embarrassment or difficulty, or in business, like a wheel sunk in mire; deeply involved. (Colloq.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Hub" Quotes from Famous Books



... scramble to the top of this as best you may. Nobody helps you. The Frenchman behind you crowds forward and climbs up ahead of you and holds you back with his umbrella while he hauls his fat wife up beside him. Then you clamber up by the hub of the wheel and by sundry awkward means which remind you of climbing a stone wall when you were a child. You take any seat left, which the Frenchmen do not want, the horses are put to, and away you go over a smooth sandy road for eleven miles, with the sea crawling ...
— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell
... impossible," replied Berkeley; "the plantation was mortgaged to the hub before Jim was born. The Byrds have been extravagant for generations, and a crash was inevitable. Old Mr. Byrd could barely meet the interest, even before the loss of Cousin Mary's money. During the last years of his life some of it was added to the ...
— Princess • Mary Greenway McClelland
... the town before, of course. But he felt this evening that he had really never seen it before. On other days what existed outside of Bear Valley did not very much matter. That was the hub around which the rest of the world revolved, so far as Terry was concerned. It was very different now. Craterville, in fact, was a huddle of broken-down houses among a great scattering of boulders with the big ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand
... when through the trees ahead she caught the curious glimmer of a cart wheel of flame upon the ground, hub and spokes glowing vividly in the center of a clearing. Curiously the girl rode toward it, unaware that the picturesque fire-wheel ahead was the typical camp fire of the southern Indian, or that the strange wild figure squatting gravely by the fire ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... and d—n 'em, if the boys are only true to the hub, we can row this guard up salt river in no time and less. Look you now—let's put the thing on a good footing, and have no further disturbance. Put all the boys on shares—equal shares—in the diggings, and we'll club strength, and can easily manage these chaps. There's no ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com