dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/hub_MW.json
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00

625 lines
20 KiB
JSON

{
"hub":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a center of activity : focal point":[
"The island is a major tourist hub ."
],
": a central device that connects multiple computers on a single network (see network entry 1 sense 3b )":[],
": a steel punch from which a working die (see die entry 2 sense 3a ) for a coin or medal is made":[],
": an airport or city through which an airline routes most of its traffic":[],
": the central part of a circular object (such as a wheel or propeller)":[
"spokes attached to the hub of the wheel"
]
},
"examples":[
"the hub of the city",
"She was at the hub of all the activity.",
"All of the airline's coast-to-coast flights pass through its hub .",
"The spokes attach to the hub of the wheel.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This year, the festival featured a Ukrainian talent hub and producer Karina Kostyna was present to pitch her own projects and put Ukrainian documentary projects in the spotlight. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"Best known for its vibrant music scene, Austin is an up-and-coming tech hub and remote worker\u2019s paradise. \u2014 Ashley Stahl, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"There will also be a live podcast, a kid\u2019s village with activities, local entertainers, a health and wellness fair, local vendors, an artists\u2019 hub and more. \u2014 Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press , 9 June 2022",
"On June 21, the US will begin enforcing a ban on goods from Xinjiang, a major manufacturing hub and the site of extensive alleged human rights violations against the region\u2019s Uyghur minority. \u2014 Aurora Almendral, Quartz , 8 June 2022",
"For more than two months, Shanghai, a financial hub and home to some twenty-five million people, came to a halt. \u2014 Han Zhang, The New Yorker , 7 June 2022",
"Local leaders say Russians have occupied nearly a third of the region, but Ukraine maintains control of Kharkiv, a northeastern hub and a major target for Russia that lies close to the border. \u2014 Rachel Pannett, Washington Post , 30 May 2022",
"The centenarians were young children when White Tulsans formed a lynch mob in 1921 and attacked the Greenwood District, a thriving Black hub of commerce and home to multiple millionaires. \u2014 Nicole Chavez, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"Though curbs are now being loosened in Hong Kong, harsh travel restrictions over the past two years have temporarily reduced the proud aviation hub and freewheeling financial center to a shadow of its former self. \u2014 Time , 6 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1649, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably alteration of hob entry 2":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"axis",
"base",
"capital",
"center",
"central",
"core",
"cynosure",
"epicenter",
"eye",
"focus",
"ground zero",
"heart",
"locus",
"mecca",
"navel",
"nerve center",
"nexus",
"nucleus",
"omphalos",
"seat"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083307",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hubble-bubble":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a flurry of sound or activity : commotion":[],
": water pipe sense 2":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1634, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"reduplication of bubble":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259-b\u0259l-\u02ccb\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023937",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hubbub":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": confusion , turmoil":[],
": noise , uproar":[]
},
"examples":[
"All the hubbub in the airport made it hard to hear the flight announcements.",
"the hubbub surrounding the film star",
"We went to the country to escape the hubbub of the city.",
"What's all the hubbub about",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Twitter hubbub over uncredited scholars is a sideshow. \u2014 Amy Wilentz, The New Republic , 25 May 2022",
"The hubbub over entertainment awards seemed offensively trivial at the time. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2022",
"The hubbub for the past few weeks in the U.S. has been all about whether or not the government should recommend that people get booster shots for Covid-19. \u2014 Steven Salzberg, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"During the hubbub , police notice a man watching from a room at the hotel across the street. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"The tweet was later deleted but too late to avoid a Twitter hubbub . \u2014 Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune , 18 May 2022",
"Of course, in typical WSB fashion, that same commenter also suggested more conspiratorial motives for all the hubbub about short squeezes. \u2014 Brandon Kochkodin, Bloomberg.com , 12 June 2021",
"That all this hubbub centers on two small rodents feels incidental. \u2014 Amy Nicholson, Variety , 17 May 2022",
"Given the unpredictability and hubbub in their lives, how can unhabiters create lasting changes"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps of Irish origin; akin to Scottish Gaelic ub ub , interjection of contempt":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259-\u02ccb\u0259b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221050",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hubby":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": husband":[]
},
"examples":[
"my hubby's been gone on a business trip all week, and I really miss him",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For example, Cardi B cooked up oxtails for hubby Offset and their beautiful blended family. \u2014 Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence , 21 June 2022",
"Hailey Baldwin and her hubby Justin Bieber escaped their massive mansion for a getaway in the deserts of Utah. \u2014 Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen , 25 May 2022",
"That's just a short train ride away from her awesome house, where her genial hubby and goofy son wait patiently. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 10 May 2022",
"Peltz swapped wedding white for a hot pink gown by while her new hubby wore an ivory suit. \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 3 May 2022",
"So good, in fact, that Hailey couldn't resist to gush about her hubby on Instagram. \u2014 Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen , 2 May 2022",
"From conquering her fear of heights to twirling around with rhythmic gymnasts, to tattooing her hubby , holistic healing, cooking thanksgiving dinner and officiating a wedding. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Ci Ci and her hubby snapped photos with sports-meets-music couple Noami Osaka and rapper bae Cordae. \u2014 Essence , 14 Feb. 2022",
"The actress just rang in the last birthday of her 40s by enjoying a vacation with her hubby . \u2014 Essence , 30 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1688, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"by alteration":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259-b\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"husband",
"man",
"mister",
"old man"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040640",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hubam clover":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an annual variety ( Melilotus alba annua ) of sweet clover":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hy\u00fc\u02ccbam-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Harold DeMott Hu ghes born 1882 American agronomist, its discoverer + Ala bam a, state in the U.S., source of the seed for the experimental plot in which it was discovered":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-003042"
},
"Hubabo":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an American Indian people of the northern part of the Dominican Republic":[],
": a member of the Hubabo people":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(h)\u00fc\u02c8b\u00e4(\u02cc)b\u014d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Spanish, of American Indian origin":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050515"
},
"Hubei":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"province of east central China traversed by the Chang (Yangtze) River; capital Wuhan area 72,394 square miles (188,224 square kilometers), population 57,237,727":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-082522"
},
"hubcap":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259b-\u02cckap"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The vehicle was missing a right front hubcap at the time of the collision. \u2014 Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Kraft said that detectives used surveillance video to track the Honda, which was missing a hubcap , back to Larissa Harris. \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 17 Aug. 2021",
"Hill then drove away from the scene, hitting a curb so that a hubcap fell off a wheel, Villarreal said. \u2014 Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com , 11 May 2021",
"Police say the vehicle may be a Dodge minivan, and its front passenger side tire was missing a hubcap . \u2014 Tim Harlow, Star Tribune , 11 Dec. 2020",
"Leased to a Park City, Utah, woman, 50, there was a spare tire on the front and damage to the hubcap on the other side. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 9 Oct. 2020",
"The passenger side rear tire is either a spare or missing a hubcap . \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 Sep. 2020",
"The suspect's vehicle is described as a silver or gray four-door sedan with a missing left front hubcap , according to a release from Silent Witness. \u2014 Alyssa Stoney, azcentral , 9 Apr. 2020",
"Ask for Martinez\u2019s crisp-edged, hubcap -size folded tlayudas filled with blood sausage (the favorite), chorizo, beef, mushrooms or nopales. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Apr. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1903, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-111139"
},
"Huber":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Robert 1937\u2013 German biochemist":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00fc-b\u0259r",
"\u02c8hy\u00fc-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-115453"
},
"Huber Heights":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"city north of Dayton in western Ohio population 38,101":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hy\u00fc-b\u0259r",
"\u02c8y\u00fc-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-133047"
},
"Hubli-Dharwad":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"city in western Karnataka, southwestern India population 786,018":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cchu\u0307-bl\u0113-\u02ccd\u00e4r-\u02c8w\u00e4d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-190436"
},
"hubris":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": exaggerated pride or self-confidence":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hy\u00fc-br\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"When conceived it was a project of almost unimaginable boldness and foolhardiness, requiring great bravura, risking great hubris . \u2014 Simon Winchester , The Professor and the Madman , 1998",
"If you were born Somewhere, hubris would come easy. But if you are Nowhere's child, hubris is an import, pride a thing you decide to acquire. \u2014 Sarah Vowell , GQ , May 1998",
"\u2026 our belief in democracy regardless of local conditions amounts to cultural hubris . \u2014 Robert D. Kaplan , Atlantic , December 1997",
"His failure was brought on by his hubris .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Their hubris is just as scary, their predilection for selfishness and lying is just as scary as the stuff in the cult of Lumon. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 Apr. 2022",
"His hubris is predicated on a profound misunderstanding of the power of liberal democracies. \u2014 Jack Devine, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The end date of the Putin age is still uncertain, but against the unified resistance of the free world, his hubris and disdain for the will of his people will bring him down. \u2014 Jack Devine, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
"This is a bell-jar comedy about mankind trapped in its own hubris . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 23 Feb. 2022",
"That mirage of success undoubtedly fueled America's hubris in Iraq. \u2014 Frida Ghitis, CNN , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Those who still believe in democracy must bury the hubris that caused the old world to fail. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 25 Feb. 2022",
"But an encounter with a gang member goes wrong, and his hubris leads him to try settling matters on the playground, a plan that backfires in a dangerous manner. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 11 Feb. 2022",
"His hubris during the Cuban Missile Crisis put our country on the nuclear brink. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 4 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek hybris":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1884, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-190656"
},
"hub-and-spigot joint":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": bell-and-spigot joint":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-222554"
},
"hub-and-spoke":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": being or relating to a system of routing air traffic in which a major airport serves as a central point for coordinating flights to and from other airports":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259b-\u0259n(d)-\u02c8sp\u014dk"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1980, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-000610"
},
"hubba-hubba":{
"type":[
"interjection"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u0259b\u0259\u00a6h\u0259b\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-032404"
},
"Hubbard":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Elbert Green 1856\u20131915 American writer and publisher":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259-b\u0259rd"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-104625"
},
"Hubbard squash":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an often very large, roundish squash with tapering ends that has a smooth to warty hard rind ranging in color from green to bluish gray to orange and is the fruit of any of several cultivars of a winter squash ( Cucurbita maxima )":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259-b\u0259rd-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from the name Hubbard":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1868, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-005748"
},
"hubbellite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an oxychloride cement that contains finely powdered copper, is fungicidal and germicidal, possesses high tensile strength and adhesive properties, and is resistant to abrasion":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259b\u0259\u02ccl\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"from Hubbellite , a trademark":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-012210"
},
"hubber":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one that sinks hobs into steel for die stamping":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259b\u0259(r)"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hub entry 1 + -er":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-020918"
},
"Hubbite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": bostonian":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259\u02ccb\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"the Hub , nickname for Boston + English -ite":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-021955"
},
"Hubble":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Edwin Powell 1889\u20131953 American astronomer":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-031429"
}
}