Central vs. Hub — What's the Difference?

At the point or in the area that is in the middle of something

Boston, Massachusetts. Used with the.

Of the greatest importance; principal or essential

The center part of a wheel, fan, or propeller.

A place with a high concentration of a specified type of person or thing

A center of activity or interest; a focal point

Situated at, in, or near the center

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.

Forming the center.

A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.

Having dominant or controlling power or influence

A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.

Of basic importance; essential or principal

(networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.

Easily reached from various points

(surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.

Of or constituting a single source controlling all components of a system

A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.

Of, relating to, or originating from the nervous system.

(US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.

Relating to a centrum.

(video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.

(Linguistics) Articulated in the middle of the oral cavity; neither front nor back. Used of vowels, as the u in cut.

A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.

Holding to a moderate ideological position between two extremes.

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

A telephone exchange.

A screw hob.

An operator at a telephone exchange.

A block for scotching a wheel.

A location or agency for the control or coordination of a group of related activities

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.

A place that is a notable site for a given activity

The hilt of a weapon.

A place that is characterized by a high concentration of a given thing

A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.

Being in the centre.

A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.

Having or containing the centre of something.

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

Being very important, or key to something.

A screw hob. See Hob, 3.

(anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.

A block for scotching a wheel.

Centre

The central location within which activities tend to concentrate, or from which activities radiate outward; a focus of activity.

Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.

A large airport used as a central transfer station for an airline, permitting economic air transportation between remote locations by directing travellers through the hub, often changing planes at the hub, and thus keeping the seat occupancy rate on the airplanes high. The hub together with the feeder lines from remote locations constitute the so-called hub and spoke system of commercial air passenger transportation. A commercial airline may have more than one such hub.

The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

The city of Boston, Massachusetts referred to locally by the nickname The Hub.

A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes

Serving as an essential component;

A center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve;

In or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area;

Used in the description of a place that in the middle of another place;

Centrally located and easy to reach;