Need another word that means the same as “hub”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “hub” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Hub” are: pivot, axis, fulcrum, centre, centre point, centre of activity, core, heart, focus, middle, nucleus, kernel, nerve centre
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “hub” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| axis | The main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged. The Earth revolves on its axis once every 24 hours. |
| centre | A place where some particular activity is concentrated. A conference centre. |
| centre of activity | The capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction. |
| centre point | A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs. |
| core | The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. The ball has a titanium core. |
| focus | The state or quality of having or producing clear visual definition. Out of focus. |
| fulcrum | The pivot about which a lever turns. Research is the fulcrum of the academic community. |
| heart | The heart regarded as the centre of a person s thoughts and emotions especially love compassion or loyalty. You haven t got the heart for baseball. |
| kernel | A single whole grain of a cereal. This is the kernel of the argument. |
| middle | The middle area of the human torso usually in front. He had a towel round his middle. |
| nerve centre | Impudent aggressiveness. |
| nucleus | (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail. The nucleus of a British film producing industry. |
| pivot | A movement in which the player holding the ball may move in any direction with one foot while keeping the other the pivot foot in contact with the floor. The pivot of community life was the chapel. |
| capital | Of primary importance. Rates of return on invested capital were high. |
| center | Move into the center. Her entire attention centered on her children. |
| centered | Being or placed in the center. |
| central | A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication. His preoccupation with history is central to his work. |
| chief | A person who is in charge. The chief reason for the spending cuts. |
| city | A town created a city by charter and usually containing a cathedral. The city voted for Republicans in 1994. |
| civic | Relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal. Civic pride. |
| concentric | Of or denoting circles, arcs, or other shapes which share the same centre, the larger often completely surrounding the smaller. Concentric circles indicate distances of 1 km 2 km and 3 km from the centre. |
| core | Remove the core or center from. Core an apple. |
| depopulate | Reduce in population. The disease could depopulate a town the size of Bournemouth. |
| elements | Violent or severe weather viewed as caused by the action of the four elements. They felt the full fury of the elements. |
| equatorial | A telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth’s axis and the other one at right angles to it. Equatorial regions. |
| essentialness | Basic importance. |
| focal | Having or localized centrally at a focus. Focal point. |
| focus | Place the focus on an element of a sentence. Out of focus. |
| gist | The real point of an action. I need a good friend I can always gist with. |
| key | Vandalize a car by scraping its paint with a key. She keyed in a series of commands. |
| leading | The activity of leading. The leading man. |
| main | The open ocean. The main problem is one of resources. |
| major | Of an interval equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. She is a linguistics major. |
| metropolis | A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts. By the late eighteenth century Edo had grown to a metropolis with a population of nearly one million. |
| pivot | The act of turning on or as if on a pivot. The pivot of community life was the chapel. |
| pivotal | Being of crucial importance- Henry Kissinger. A sliding or pivotal motion. |
| primary | A primary feather. A primary instinct. |
| prime | A prime number. The prime of the world. |
| principal | An actor who plays a principal role. A design consultancy whose principal is based in San Francisco. |
| reel | A length of something wound on to a reel. She reeled back against the van. |
| spoke | Each of the bars or wire rods connecting the centre of a wheel to its outer edge. |
| swivel | Turn around a point or axis or on a swivel. She swivelled her eyes round. |
| urban | Located in or characteristic of a city or city life. The urban population. |
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