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HUB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hub" is a kind of...):
part; portion (something less than the whole of a human artifact)
Holonyms ("hub" is a part of...):
car wheel (a wheel that has a tire and rim and hubcap; used to propel the car)
blower; electric fan (a fan run by an electric motor)
propeller; propellor (a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve
Example:
the airport is the economic hub of the area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("hub" is a kind of...):
center; centre; eye; heart; middle (an area that is approximately central within some larger region)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hub"):
civic center; down town; municipal center (the center of a city)
Context examples:
The job appears too special to turn down, but you will need help to manage things domestically, for your home atmosphere won’t likely calm down, but rather remain a high-level hub of activity most of 2020.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Making this, in turn, fast to the spring-pole attached to the kitchen rafters, so that the hub played upon the woollens in the barrel, he was able, with one hand, thoroughly to pound them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Martin washed woollens that day, by hand, in a large barrel, with strong soft-soap, by means of a hub from a wagon wheel, mounted on a plunger- pole that was attached to a spring-pole overhead.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
