hub
名词 n.
专有名词
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
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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.
- A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
- A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
- A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
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A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
— a hub in the road
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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.
- A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
- A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
- A screw hob.
- A block for scotching a wheel.
专有名词
- Alternative letter-case form of Hub.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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