nub (n b)n.1. A protuberance or knob. 2. A small lump. 3. The essence; the core: the nub of a story.
[Variant of knub, probably from Low German knubbe, from Middle Low German, variant of knobbe.]
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nub [nʌb]n1. a small lump or protuberance 2. a small piece or chunk 3. the point or gist the nub of a story 4. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a small fibrous knot in yarn [variant of knub, from Middle Low German knubbe knob] nubbly adj
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | nub - a small lump or protuberance excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, bulge, protrusion, protuberance, swelling, bump, prominence - something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" | | 2. | nub - a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil"nubbin - a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn) part, piece - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" | | 3. | nub - 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"essence, heart and soul, inwardness, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, gist, kernel, meat, core, sum, marrow, heart, center, centre bare bones - (plural) the most basic facts or elements; "he told us only the bare bones of the story" hypostasis - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality haecceity, quiddity - the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other quintessence - the purest and most concentrated essence of something stuff - a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative" |
nubnoun gist, point, heart, core, essence, nucleus, kernel, crux, pith That, I think, is the nub of the problem.
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