单词 | hub |
释义 | hub (once / 1384 pages) n A hub is the center of a wheel or the center of some kind of activity. If all of an airline's flights go through Atlanta, you'd say the southern city is their hub. You know how a lot of activity is called a hubbub? That makes sense when you consider that a hub, in a wheel or otherwise, is the center of whatever's going on. Southern California has long been a hub of the computer industry, and Detroit used to be the hub of the auto industry. Busy airports like the ones in Chicago and Atlanta are called hubs. Any hub is important, because it's right in the middle of all the action. WORD FAMILYhub: hubs USAGE EXAMPLESIn Philadelphia, it is one of the anchors of a technology hub in the city’s Navy Yard, opening its third biomanufacturing facility there this fall. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Occupied as an artists squat starting in the 1980s, Les Frigos is today an emblematic artistic hub with coveted studios and exhibition space. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) And they remind me that the local travel scene isn’t some big, unfolded map with rail lines and interstates and multi-modal transportation hubs. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1n the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes Hyper part, portion something less than the whole of a human artifact 2n a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve the playground is the hub of parental supervision the airport is the economic hub of the area Hypo|Hyper civic center, down town, municipal center the center of a city center, centre, eye, heart, middle an area that is approximately central within some larger region |
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