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center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | centre |
| Type of | edifice, building |
| Has types | student center, community center, civic center, settlement house, service club, conference house, conference center, research facility, research center, burn center, call center, call centre, control center |
they were raising money to build a new center for research.
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | center of attention, centre, centre of attention |
| Type of | object |
| Has types | crosshairs, cynosure, eye-catcher, conversation piece |
| Derivation | central |
his stories made him the center of the party.
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | centre, nerve center, nerve centre |
| Type of | neural structure |
| Has types | broca's gyrus, rhinencephalon, broca's center, wernicke's center, wernicke's area, olfactory brain, broca's area, broca's convolution, convolution of broca, auditory center, inferior colliculus, superior colliculus, respiratory center |
in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere.
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | centre |
| Type of | confection, sweet |
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
| Type of | sales outlet, outlet, retail store, mercantile establishment |
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | centre |
| Type of | property, place |
| Has types | nerve center, capital, nerve centre |
they received messages from several centers.
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | centre, midpoint |
| Type of | point |
| Has types | bight, center of curvature, navel, centre of gravity, core, centre of curvature, centre of mass, center of mass, center of gravity, nucleus, nombril, bull, navel point, bull's eye, bowels |
| Derivation | centrical, central, centric |
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | centre, eye, heart, middle |
| Type of | area, country |
| Has types | midstream, center stage, central city, centre stage, city center, city centre, financial center, hub, inner city, medical center, midfield, seat, storm center, storm centre |
| Derivation | centric, central, centrical |
it is in the center of town.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
| Type of | have to do with, touch on, refer, concern, pertain, come to, relate, bear on, touch |
| Derivation | centering |
Her entire attention centered on her children.
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| Type of | cognitive content, content, mental object |
| Has types | hypostasis, stuff, quintessence, quiddity, haecceity, bare bones |
| Derivation | central |
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | center field, centerfield |
| Type of | parcel, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel of land |
he hit the ball to deep center.
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | lineman |
it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback.
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | position |
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | cager, basketeer, basketball player |
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | hockey player, ice-hockey player |
center::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | class, stratum, socio-economic class, social class |
center::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | position |
Examples of center
center
They said his performance was at the center of at least one closed-door meeting.
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Within hours, LaRussa was talking up Tyler Greene as a potential center fielder.
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The emergency room at the center typically handled about 200 such cases a month.
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Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes.
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Bake about 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
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Bake about 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
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Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
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Heller and Weiss traveled to Chicago in October to tour that city's bike center.
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He finished far ahead of Detroit center fielder Austin Jackson for the AL honor.
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- Center(a): equally distant from the extremes
- An area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"
- Focus on: center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work"
- Center field: the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher; "he hit the ball to deep center"
- Concentrate: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
- Of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
- The term center or centre is used in various contexts in abstract algebra to denote the set of all those elements that commute with all other elements. It is often denoted Z, from German , meaning "center". ...
- Center (C) is a position in American football and Canadian football (spelled centre in Canadian English). The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense. ...
- The center, colloquially known as the five or the pivot, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well. A typical NBA center is 6'9" or taller.
