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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#m1)

2) The busiest or most important centre of an activity or place, as in «a transport hub». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#m2)

3) (computing) A device that joins several cables or computers together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#m3)

4) (informal) Short for «hubby» or «husband» — rare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#x1)
- The library is the hub of our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#x2)
- London is a big transport hub. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#x3)
- Plug the mouse into the USB hub. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#x4)
- The town square is the hub of the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#x5)
- The airport is a hub for flights to Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#x6)
- Grease the hub so the wheel turns smoothly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#x7)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hub» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hub/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.