hub

• n. 中心；ハブ；木片
• n. （ハブ）人名；（チェコ語）ハブ

車輪職人の専門用語で、おそらくハブ（hubbe）、チャンク（chunk）、ピエ（PIE）*カプ（kap）、つかむ、保持する、握る、から派生したもので、語源的には可能な、ヒーブ（heave）、ホブ（hob）と同じ。

hub

hub: [17] Hub is one of those words that emerge unheralded from the undergrowth of language, its forbears uncertain. It seems originally to have meant ‘lump’, and is probably ultimately the same word as hob [16]. This was at first spelled hub and may have denoted a lump of clay used as a bakestone, or a brick or clay projection at the back of a fire on which things were placed to keep warm. And hobnail [16] is etymologically a nail with a large ‘lumpy’ head.
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hub (n.)

"solid center of a wheel," 1640s, perhaps from hubbe, originally "lump," the source of hob of a fireplace and hobnail, as in boots. A wheelwright's word, not generally known or used until c. 1828; it reached wider currency in connection with bicycles. Meaning "center of interest or activity or importance" first recorded 1858 in writings of Oliver W. Holmes, and originally especially of Boston.

"Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system." [O.W. Holmes, "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"]

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"[E]verybody knows that Boston used to be called the Hub, meaning the hub of the universe. It may still be the hub, because the center of a wheel moves slowly." [J.P. Marquand, "Life," March 24, 1941]

1. the commercial hub of the city

都市の商業センター

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2.Chicago is a hub of airline traffic.

シカゴは運航センターです。

3.As a hub of finance and communications,Paris is now almost equal to London.

金融と交通の中心地として、パリは今ではロンドンに匹敵する。