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Vinony

hub

noun

  1. stamping tool
  2. center region, particularly for a wheel
  3. node with a number of links that greatly exceeds the average
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /hʌb/ / /hʊb/

name

Etymology: Clipping of Pornhub, from hub.

  1. Pornhub.

    “It will eventually, the Hub will replace every video site since it has everything for let's plays to porn.”

    “Ive straight up had my girl hand me her phone with the hub opened up because she didnt wana deal with it lmao”

noun

Etymology: 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.

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

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

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

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

    “From the ground, Colombo's port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka's capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India's southern tip.”

  3. A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
  4. A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
  5. A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
  6. A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
  7. A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.

    “a hub in the road”

  8. An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.

    “In a break with tradition, these levels are tackled in any order, with the next act chosen from a semi-random selection machine located in the game's hub area.”

  9. A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
  10. A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
  11. A screw hob.
  12. A block for scotching a wheel.