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Center   /sˈɛntər/  /sˈɛnər/   Listen
Center

noun
1.
An area that is approximately central within some larger region.  Synonyms: centre, eye, heart, middle.  "They ran forward into the heart of the struggle" , "They were in the eye of the storm"
2.
The piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher.  Synonyms: center field, centerfield.
3.
A building dedicated to a particular activity.  Synonym: centre.
4.
A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure.  Synonyms: centre, midpoint.
5.
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.  Synonyms: centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum.  "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"
6.
The object upon which interest and attention focuses.  Synonyms: center of attention, centre, centre of attention.
7.
A cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process.  Synonyms: centre, nerve center, nerve centre.
8.
The middle of a military or naval formation.
9.
(basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team.
10.
(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback.  Synonym: snapper.
11.
A place where some particular activity is concentrated.  Synonym: centre.
12.
Politically moderate persons; centrists.
13.
(ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team.
14.
The sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering.  Synonym: centre.
15.
Mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace.  Synonyms: mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall.  "They spent their weekends at the local malls"
16.
The position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game.
17.
(American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play.
18.
A position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game.
verb
(past & past part. centered or centred; pres. part. centering or centring)
1.
Center upon.  Synonyms: center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around.  "Our day revolved around our work"
2.
Direct one's attention on something.  Synonyms: centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet.
3.
Move into the center.  Synonym: centre.
adjective
1.
Equally distant from the extremes.  Synonyms: halfway, middle, midway.
2.
Of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually.



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"Center" Quotes from Famous Books



... into sight around a bend in the road, barely giving the footsore infantrymen time to seek safety in the fields. It was an entire regiment of six batteries, and came up in column, in splendid order, at a sharp trot, the colonel riding on the flank at the center of the line, every officer at his post. The guns went rattling, bounding by, accurately maintaining their prescribed distances, each accompanied by its caisson, men and horses, beautiful in the perfect symmetry of its arrangement; and ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola

... various words which shew that in reading Poisson I was struggling with French words. There are also Finite Differences and their Calculus, Figure of the Earth (force to the center), various Attractions (some evidently referring to Maclaurin's), Integrals, Conic Sections, Kepler's Problem, Analytical Geometry, D'Alembert's Theorem, Spherical Aberration, Rotations round three axes (apparently I had been reading Euler), Floating bodies, Evolute of Ellipse, ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy

... close to Harry, laid his hand on his knee, and, first looking about him, said in a low voice, "The Salt Lick Pacific Extension is going to run through Stone's Landing! The Almighty never laid out a cleaner piece of level prairie for a city; and it's the natural center of all that region of ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... had been noisily washing at the sink, was frowning into the cracked mirror above it as he tried to part his hair exactly in the center. ...
— Sunny Boy in the Big City • Ramy Allison White

... Clarke's store porch in the village. A frame building with a false front. A low porch with two steps up. Door in center of porch. A window on each side of the door. A bench on each side of the porch. Axhandles, hoes and shovels, etc. are displayed leaning against the wall. Exits right and left. Street is unpaved. Grass and weeds growing ...
— De Turkey and De Law - A Comedy in Three Acts • Zora Neale Hurston


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