hub

CEFRC1

/hʌb/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The central place or part of an activity or system.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.

Examples

  • If you combine them in this way, you get a 14 port USB hub.

  • Zürich is considered to be a major financial hub.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.

  2. The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.

  3. A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.

More examples

In context

  • Hong Kong International Airport is one of the most important air traffic hubs in Asia.

  • a hub in the road

  • If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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.