(n.) The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.
(n.) The hilt of a weapon.
(n.) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.
(n.) A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.
(n.) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
(n.) A screw hob. See Hob, 3.
(n.) A block for scotching a wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heathrow, likewise, said Gatwick's new runway would not solve the issue of hub capacity.
(2) It recognises the diverse needs of the affected populations”, said Scott DiPretoro, who works in the IFRC’s Panama hub.
(3) Both initiatives, which are still being developed, have been well-received by Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who says they could help get more people from their homes to public transport hubs and has offered technical support.
(4) Thirty (56.6%) had external origin (semiquantitative skin culture positive), 12 (22.6%) had an internal origin (semiquantitative hub culture positive), and 8 (15.1%) had both origins.
(5) Martin Frobisher, the area director for Network Rail, said: "The Northern Hub and electrification programme is the biggest investment in the railway in the north of England for a generation and will transform rail travel for millions of passengers every year."
(6) The proximal extension tubing minimizes manipulation of the hub of the needle, which may lead to dislodgement of the needle, and permits a sampling port with minimal dead space between it and the fetal circulation.
(7) Locally brokered ceasefires have taken effect elsewhere in Syria in recent months, notably in the Moadimeyah district of Damascus, which was also once a hub of opposition control.
(8) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(9) To check the Hub while in an app, you use your thumb to swipe the screen from left to right, and can "peek" at the Hub's inbox.
(10) But others point out that Freeh and Clinton were in well-publicised dispute for most of the president's time in office and that Miami is the main transport hub for most countries in the Caribbean, and so the most obvious venue for the interviews.
(11) The King's Fund's Time to Think Differently campaign highlighted the importance of the home – not the hospital or care home – as the primary hub of care.
(12) Kristen Woolf, girl-centred practice and strategy director, The Girl Hub , London, UK, @girleffect Don't lose focus on girls: Very clearly men and boys have got to be a central component of the solution, but we need to tread carefully here not to lose the focus on equality and empowerment for girls and women.
(13) Migration has turned a sleepy town with a population of 31,000 in 1872 into today's megacity of 21 million, the ninth-biggest city in the world and South America's wealthiest and most important economic hub.
(14) As Cook put it: “From our point of view, the time for inaction has passed.” The values-led business hub is funded by SC Johnson.
(15) Already, the growing hub is surrounded by five-star hotels and hundreds of luxury villa and apartments.
(16) In this life,” he said, smiling, “you have to make some money.” He then spelled out the cartel’s proposition: it would pay Sirleaf handsomely in exchange for his help in using Liberia as a transit hub for smuggling cocaine from Colombia into Europe.
(17) Photograph: Rozena Crossman Despite its small size, the café has a lighter and more modern atmosphere than the cramped bookshop next door, a famous hub for influential writers.
(18) As Chambers's lawyers pointed out, he was not attempting to close down a public transport hub but urging it to resume normal working operations.
(19) Ofcom has already moved to allow more regional hubs for local commercial radio, relax local programming quotas, and encourage digital stations.
(20) "And with the help of the council we're looking to increase the number of hubs and bikes so we've got most of the city covered.
Hue
Definition:
(n.) Color or shade of color; tint; dye.
(n.) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.
(n.) A shouting or vociferation.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of colour vision (CV) in 65 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), (30 patients had had previous optic neuritis) and 51 controls was carried out with Ishihara's pseudoisochromatic plates (I-test), Farnsworth's panel D-15 test (F-test), and Lanthony's desaturated 15-hue test (L-test).
(2) We studied how much blue, green, or red light had to be added to or subtracted from white to obtain veridical hue perception (blue, green, red, or their complementary colours) at various locations in the temporal visual field.
(3) In Experiment 1, newborns differentiated gray from green, from yellow, and from red: For each of these hues they preferred chromatic-and-gray checkerboards over gray squares matched in mean luminance, even though the luminance of the gray checks was varied systematically over a wide range so as to minimize nonchromatic cues.
(4) Data received was converted to Munsell notation for evaluation of the dimensions of color, i.e., Hue, Chroma, and Value, as related to (1) shade differences, (2) thickness of porcelain, and (3) numbers of firings.
(5) Incidentally, it’s the algae that give the coral its colour; and so when it’s ejected, the coral takes on a ghostly white hue, giving rise to the term “bleaching”.
(6) In the remaining four family members normal retinal and cortical responses were recorded under standard conditions and visual fields and colour vision (FM 100 hue) were also normal.
(7) The width of the neutral zone is estimated by the ranges of hues confused with grey.
(8) What they proved, in unambiguous data, was that the photo-op image of Team GB as a changing nation of many hues was not PR fluff but demographic reality.
(9) Munsell's score of the nail samples treated by glycosylation and heating showed increased hue and saturation but reduced lightness.
(10) It is argued that the differential acuity thresholds for hue and the curvilinear age trend may depend upon the coordination of the accommodation and refractive power of the eye, which are affected by differential growth rates of the lens and the axial length of the eye.
(11) The lectin concanavalin-A does not inhibit the binding of 125I-bFGF to HUE cell-surface receptors, whereas it inhibits bFGF binding to BHK-21 cell-surface FGF receptor.
(12) Stimuli were presented either in hue substitution (replacement of white by a chromatic stimulus of matched luminance) or as increments.
(13) The influence of conjunctiva hue on the clinical evaluation of anemia was tested by three educated non-clinicians, trained for such a purpose, in 219 healthy ambulatory subjects.
(14) Spurred by the development of the Farnsworth 100 hue-test, interest was renewed in the 1950s.
(15) It has been observed--on the basis of performed examinations of the color vision by means of the Farnsworth-Munsell's 100-Hue test--that the general numerical index of the faults is increasing proportionally to the period of employment, i.s.
(16) Our results for the FM 100-hue panel are similar to those reported previously by other investigators.
(17) Pairs of test colors of equal hues and apparent lightnesses and 2 degrees subtense were positioned successively within the pair of complex targets and were judged for relative color saturation.
(18) The colour vision of 50 diabetic patients was examined with two screening tests, Standard Pseudoisochromatic Plates part 2 (SPP 2) and Farnsworth Panel D 15 (Panel D 15) test and with two diagnostic tests, Nagel anomaloscope and Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test.
(19) There was a great hue and cry and everyone came out – but pretty soon the mullahs sabotaged the consensus and it all went quiet again.
(20) Administration of T did not cause any lizards to change hue, whether their color morph was yellow or orange or lacked the facial pigments altogether.