hub

«hub» in Mova's school dictionary: The centre of a wheel, where the spokes or axle are joined — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hub, hubs)

meaning for a pupil

1) The centre of a wheel, where the spokes or axle are joined. tree →

2) The busiest or most important centre of an activity or place, as in «a transport hub». tree →

3) (computing) A device that joins several cables or computers together. tree →

4) (informal) Short for «hubby» or «husband» — rare. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: «The kitchen is the hub of our home.» In geography and social studies: airports and big stations are transport hubs. In science and design, the hub of a bicycle wheel. In computing, a USB hub lets you plug in more things.

examples

• The spokes meet at the hub of the wheel. tree →
• The library is the hub of our school. tree →
• London is a big transport hub. tree →
• Plug the mouse into the USB hub. tree →
• The town square is the hub of the market. tree →
• The airport is a hub for flights to Asia. tree →
• Grease the hub so the wheel turns smoothly. tree →
• The horses could hardly drag the load through the deep mud, and at last came to a standstill when one of the wheels sank to the hub in a rut. tree →

note

Countable. Short word with a short u. In network or graph puzzles, the hub is the point with the most lines joined to it.

In the corpora

• Ball bearings, tiny steel balls inside a wheel's hub, let the wheel turn on its axle with very little friction.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hub» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.