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Hub vs Hive - What's the difference?

hub | hive |

As nouns the difference between hub and hive

is that hub is lifting while hive is (label) winter.

hub

English

(wikipedia hub)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
  • A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted.
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  • (computing) A computer networking device connecting several ethernet ports. See switch .
  • (surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
  • A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
  • (obsolete) The hilt of a weapon.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
    • a hub in the road
  • A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
  • A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
  • A screw hob.
  • A block for scotching a wheel.

    • Derived terms

    * hubbed * hubbing

    Anagrams

    * ----

    hive

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.
    • (Dryden)
  • The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
    • a wretched hive of scum and villainy
  • * Tennyson
    • the hive of Roman liars
  • (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
  • * 2006 , Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP (page 352)
    • Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives
  • * 2011 , Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0
    • For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.

    Derived terms

    * beehive * hivemind * mother-hive * superhive * hive five

    See also

    * apiary

    Verb

    (hiv)
  • (entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
  • To form a hive-like entity.
  • To collect into a hive.
    • to hive a swarm of bees
  • To store in a hive or similarly.
  • * Byron
    • Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
  • To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
    • (Alexander Pope)

    Derived terms

    * hive off English collective nouns