hub – English noun declension

English noun forms of hub

Noun: hub
Singularhub
Pluralhubs

Sample Sentences

  • If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. [2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:]
  • 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. [2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:]
  • Doncaster is a rail hub in every sense. Passenger lines radiate in six directions, there are freight lines that bypass the station, extensive freight yards, a major works, and a rolling stock depot. [2021 May 19, Philip Haigh, “Doncaster enhancements relying on DfT approval”, in RAIL, number 931, page 30:]
  • a hub in the road
  • 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. [2014, Julian Hazeldine, Speedrun: The Unauthorised History of Sonic The Hedgehog, page 47:]

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. See: German Nouns 'Hubbel'.

Verbs referencing "hub"

Italian Nouns hub, English Nouns hump, Russian Nouns хаб, Finnish Nouns hubi.