(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.
Sub
Definition:
(n.) A subordinate; a subaltern.
Example Sentences:
(1) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
(2) Both of these species belong to the serotype B. MCAs T11 and T15, the first recorded with a specificity for only sub-serotype A2 EF, were tested further against 28 sub-serotype A2 and three sub-serotype A2B2EFs from L. tropica strains.
(3) In each of these sub-groups, 4 micropapilliform cancers discovered at the occasion of a histopathological test.
(4) We isolated soft agar colonies (a-subclones) and sub-clones from foci (h-subclones) of both hybrids, and, as a control, subclones of cells from random areas without foci of one hybrid (BS181 p-subclones).
(5) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(6) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
(7) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
(8) The marine natural product lophotoxin has produced a non-reversible antagonism of parasympathetic and sympathetic functions that are known to be mediated by C6 sub-type nicotinic receptors.
(9) Twenty-eight out of 49 countries in [sub-Saharan] Africa have not had a household survey since 2006 and yet in Africa since 2005 the population has grown by 30%,” she said.
(10) Today's identification of four types and various sub-types of 5-HT receptors has revealed the extraordinary eclecticism of this transmitter which within migraine's clinical expression underscores that migraine sufferers are characterized by a marked sensitivity to all the drugs capable of acutely or chronically interacting with serotonin metabolism and binding with many serotonin receptor types and sub-types.
(11) Obasanjo was in the UK to promote investment in Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa's most populous country and its second biggest economy, not to mention one of the world's most promising emerging destinations for international investors.
(12) Immunoreactivity was observed in the sub-nuclear region of foveolar cells, with specialized gland and goblet cells in atrophic gastritis being negative.
(13) Representative specimens from two classes of Vertebrata Sub-Phyllum, Bufo paracnemis (amphibian) and Gallus domesticus (avian) were made anemic by phenylhydrazine treatment.
(14) In all three renin sub-groups of essential hypertension, the state of sodium balance determines the degree of participation of the renin-angiotensin system in sustaining high blood pressure.
(15) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
(16) This altered reactivity with H2DIDS has previously been noted for a band 3 Memphis sub-type designated variant 2.
(17) Between February and July of 1989, 22 patients underwent the use of the Stack autoperfusion catheter following acute occlusion or obstructive dissection during coronary angioplasty; in 20 cases conventional balloon was used in an attempt to correct the angiographic appearance followed by the use of Stack catheter when results were sub-optimal.
(18) Two of the ten patients developed mild symptoms of (sub)ileus that could be treated conservatively.
(19) This suggests that the curvature of the xenon clearance curve is the result of recording the summation of the activities from the alveoli and the pulmonary blood and not, as previously described, due to the existence of two different sub-populations of alveoli.
(20) It details a meeting between Meara and Fabrizio Nava, director of the office of sub-Saharan Africa assistance for the Italian government.