Nub

Definitions: Nub

Nub

Noun

1. A small lump or protuberance.

2. A small piece; "a nub of coal" or "a stub of a pencil".

3. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nub" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

NUB

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Nub

Crosswords: Nub

Books

• Nub and Bow (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "nub": nub of matter ♦ the nub. Additional references.

Albanian

xhungë (boss, bulge, bump, excrescence, gall, gallnut, glandule, hump, hunch, knob, knur, knurr, lump, node, overgrowth, protuberance, swelling, tuber, tubercle), top (ball, bolt, cannon, falconet, field gun, gun, knob, nubble, nugget, piece, soundly), thelb (backbone, burden, core, crux, essence, essentiality, gist, guts, heart, hinge, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, matter, pith, point, soul, substance, sum, tenor), shuk (ball, knob, nubble, wad), gungë (boss, bump, gibbosity, hummock, hump, hunch, knob, knot, knur, knurl, knurr, node, overgrowth, promontory, protuberance, swell, swelling, tuber, tubercle, tumefaction), copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, knob, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, partition, piece, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snip, snippet, splint, tatter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نتوء (bulge, bump, bunch, cusp, facet, jut, knob, ledge, lump, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, salient, shell, snag, spur, stick, stick up), ‏قطعة صغيرة (nubble, sliver), ‏عقدة (clove, complex, ganglion, hitch, kink, knob, knurl, loop, tangle, umbo), ‏عجرة (tubercle), ‏أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, main, major, material, momentous, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

същина (content, core, distillation, essence, gist, guts, heart, inbeing, inside, inwardness, marrow, matter, meat, pith, point, quiddity, substance, sum and substance, thisness), ядка (core, kernel, local, marrow, meat, nut), чвор (knag, nodule, Nodus), чеп (bung, burr, fauces, knag, knar, knot, knur, knurl, nodule, Nodus, peg, plug, spigot, spile, tap, toggle), бучка (clot, gout, knob, nubble), буца (bunch, chunk, cob, dollop, gibbosity, gob, hunch, intumescence, junk, knob, lump, protuberance, tuber), израстък (appendage, appendix, excrescence, growth, intumescence, knot, knurl, outgrowth, process, shoot, sucker, verruca). (various references)

Chinese 

小块 (scrap, scraps). (various references)

Czech

podstata (bedrock, being, essence, essentiality, gist, guts, kernel, marrow, meat, nubble, pith, principle, quintessence, spirit, substance, substantiality), jádro (bedrock, core, essence, guts, inside, kernel, marrow, meat, nubble, nucleus, pip, pith, quintessence, seed, stone, substance). (various references)

Farsi 

قلنبه (Baggy, Bloc, Block, Bombastic, Hunch, Lump, Lumpy, Outstanding, Pone, Sonorous, Stilted, Stodgy), تکه (Bit, Dab, Fragment, Glimmer, Gob, Goblet, Item, Loaf, Lot, Lump, Morsel, Pane, Patch, Portion, Scrap, Shiver, Shred, Slab, Slice, Smidgen, Whit), برامدگی (Bulge, Bump, Burr, Ganglion, Knob, Ledge, Mound, Nook, Outgrwth, Overhang, Projection, Ridge, Stigma, Tumor). (various references)

French

noyau (atomic nucleus, nucleus), petit morceau, petit bosse, essentiel, bout. (various references)

German

stückchen (fraction, little bit, particle, Pat, scrap, shred, small piece, snippet, tablet), klümpchen (clot, clots, glob, nodule), kern (almond, atomic nucleus, center, centre, core, core wood, crux, essence, gist, grape seed, gut, heart, heart center, heart centre, heartwood, kernel, marrow, nucleus, pip, pit, pith, pith stock, quintessence, seed, seed value, sprue, stone, web, web thickness). (various references)

Greek 

κόμβοσ (bowline, hitch, junction, kink, knob, knot, knurl, node), κόμποσ (bend, crux, knot), όγκοσ (bulk, bunch, clump, excrescence, gobbet, growth, hump, hunch, lump, mass, neoplasm, tumor, tumour, volume), όζοσ (knob, knot, knurl, node), ουσία υπόθεσησ, ουσία (being, entity, essence, gist, marrow, matter, nature, pith, pithiness, quiddity, quintessence, savor, savour, substance). (various references)

Hebrew 

עקר (barren, basis, crux, doctrine, dogma, essence, foundation, futile, gist, impotent, infertile, main, origin, pith, principle, quintessence, root, sterile, substance, tenet), �'בשושית (bump, knob, molehill, mound). (various references)

Hungarian

lényeg (burden, elixir, entity, essence, essential, gist, inbeing, kernel, main point, main thing, matter, meat, nature, nuclei, nucleus, pivot, point, quiddity, substance, tenor, the long and the short). (various references)

Italian

pezzetto (bit, chip, lump, morsel, piece, scrap, shred, snip). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubnay

Portuguese

nuança (hue, nuance, shade, tint). (various references)

Romanian

ciot (gnarl, knar, knob, knot, snag, stub, stump), bucatã (article, bar, brick, clod, cut, dollop, fragment, hunk, junk, length, morsel, part, Pat, patch, piece, ribbon, shred, slice, snack, steak, tablet). (various references)

Russian 

шишка (big fish, big noise, big shot, biggie, boss, bump, cone, core, excrescence, knar, knob). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suština (being, bottom, essence, essentiality, gist, habitude, heart, inwardness, marrow, matter of fact, pith, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, substance, substantiality, vitals), srž (core, crux, essence, gut, marrow, pith, pulp), grumen (clod, clump, dollop, knob, lob, lump, nugget), grudva (clod, nugget). (various references)

Spanish

protuberancia (boss, bulge, knob, outgrowth, projection, prominence, prominency, promontory, protuberance, swelling), pedazo (bit, Cantel, chunk, end, hunk, lieu, lump, morsel, piece, spare part, wedge), parte esencial, lo esencial (basics, crux, the heart of the matter, the main thing). (various references)

Swedish

kärnpunkt (hinge). (various references)

Thai

จุ�"สำคัญ (center, keynote). (various references)

Turkish

yuvarlak çıkıntı, yumru (bump, concretion, cupola, excrescence, gallnut, knob, knot, knurl, lump, node, nodule, nubble, protuberance, swelling, torus, tuber, tuberose, tuberosity, tuberous, wart), topak (chunk, clew, clue, cob, dollop, glob, hunch, knurl, lump, pellet, pulp), esas (authentic, basal, base, basic, basis, beginnings, broad, central, constitutive, corner stone, element, elemental, essence, extract, footing, fortification, foundation, fundamental, guiding, heartbeat, intrinsic, main, master, parent, pith, pith and marrow, pivotal, postulate, principal, principle, quiddity, radical, staple, substance, sum, the merits, the nub, ultimate, underlying). (various references)

Ukranian 

суть (alcohol, backbone, content, core, entity, essence, essential, existence, gist, hinge, inwardness, juice, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, matter, nature, net, pith, point, quid, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance), шматочок (morsel, nubble, scrap, sop), шишка (nubbin, strobile), шия (cervix, neck), кусочок (nubble), грудочка (nubble), вузлики, вузлик (bead, nodule, tubercle), непси, потовщення (node, nodosity, nose, thickening, thickness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

điểm trọng yếu, điểm cơ bản. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nub": nubbier, nubbiest, nubbin, nubbins, nubble, nubbles, nubblier, nubbliest, nubbly, nubby, nubia, nubias, nubile, nubilities, nubility, nubilose, nubilous, nubs. (additional references)

Words ending with "nub": snub. (additional references)

Words containing "nub": connubial, connubialism, connubialisms, connubialities, connubiality, connubially, knubbier, knubbiest, knubby, manubria, manubrium, manubriums, obnubilate, obnubilated, obnubilates, obnubilating, obnubilation, obnubilations, snubbed, snubber, snubbers, snubbier, snubbiest, snubbiness, snubbinesses, snubbing, snubby, snubness, snubnesses, snubs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nub" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eub, gnub, knub, nabd, Nabn, nabt, nalb, nbr, Nby, Ncbi, ndb, nebb, Nebi, nerb, Nesb, nhu, niba, nibb, nibo, ni-br, nibt, Nikb, niob, nirb, Njuba, Nkuebe, nlba, Nnuh, noab, nobb, Nobi, nobo, Nobq, Nobu, noob, norb, norbu, Noubir, Nouby, nouv, nru, nsub, Ntui, nu, nuba, nube, nubuk, nuby, Nuc, nud, nue, nueb, nuf, nug, nuh, nui, nuj, Nuk, nuo, nuq, nurb, nus, Nuu, nuv, nuw, nux, nuy, nuz, nvu, nyu, nyuk, Nyum, Nyup, unb, unbz, Vnup, zub. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bun.

-1 letter: nu, un.

+1 letter: bund, bung, bunk, bunn, buns, bunt, burn, nubs, numb, snub, unbe.

+2 letters: begun, blunt, bonus, bosun, bound, bourn, bruin, brunt, bunch, bunco, bunds, bundt, bungs, bunko, bunks, bunns, bunny, bunts, bunya, buran, burin, burns, burnt, nubby, nubia, numbs, snubs, tabun, unban, unbar, unbid, unbox, urban.

+3 letters: abound, auburn, beduin, benumb, bluing, blunge, blunts, bohunk, bonduc, bosuns, bounce, bouncy, bounds, bounty, bourne, bourns, bouton, brucin, bruins, brunch, brunet, brunts, bumkin, bunchy, buncos, bundle, bundts, bunged, bungee, bungle, bunion, bunked, bunker, bunkos, bunkum, bunted, bunter, bunyas, burans, burden, burins, burned, burner, burnet, burnie, burton, busing, buskin, busman, busmen, butane, butene, button, buying, cobnut, cubing, debunk, dubbin, incubi, knubby, lubing, nebula, nebule, nebuly, nimbus, nubbin, nubble, nubbly, nubias, nubile, numbat, numbed, number, numbly, obtund, rurban, snubby, subnet, suborn, sunbow, tabuns, tubing, turban, unable, unbans, unbars, unbear, unbelt, unbend, unbent, unbind, unbolt, unborn, unbred, unbusy, uncurb, unrobe, upbind, urbane.

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