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Synonyms for hub

Grammar : Noun
Spell : huhb
Phonetic Transcription : hʌb


Définition of hub

Origin :
  • "solid center of a wheel," 1640s, perhaps from hubbe, originally "lump," the source of hob of a fireplace and hobnail, as in boots. A wheelwright's word, not generally known or used until c.1828; it reached wider currency in connection with bicycles. Meaning "center of interest or activity or importance" first recorded 1858 in writings of Oliver W. Holmes, and originally especially of Boston.
  • "Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system." [O.W. Holmes, "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"]"[E]verybody knows that Boston used to be called the Hub, meaning the hub of the universe. It may still be the hub, because the center of a wheel moves slowly." [J.P. Marquand, "Life," March 24, 1941]
  • noun center, focal point
Example sentences :
  • It isn't the thing at all; but see here, Judge, examine this hub.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 » by Various
  • The hub, of brass, is made according to the stream-line method.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
  • The method of cutting the slots in the hub is shown at D, Fig. 37.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
  • Should he have grasped the spokes near the hub, near the rim, or in the middle?
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • The poor creature's dress had caught in something, and she stood an instant on the hub.
  • Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
  • Modioliform: globular, truncated at both ends; like the hub of a wheel.
  • Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
  • "I cannot forego the pleasure of showing you about 'the Hub,'" I urged.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland
  • It was like the hub of a wheel, only there were not so many passages as there are spokes in most wheels.
  • Extract from : « Fighting in France » by Ross Kay
  • A new biography of Alberti is in course of preparation by Hub.
  • Extract from : « The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy » by Jacob Burckhardt
  • On the hub of the wheel a workman sits to direct the filling of these.
  • Extract from : « Diggers in the Earth » by Eva March Tappan

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