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How to pronounce center in English?

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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.
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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.
Type Words
Synonyms centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet
Type of cogitate, cerebrate, think
Has types steep, take heed, soak up, think, recall, plunge, listen, immerse, hear, engulf, engross, zoom in, absorb
Verb group rivet
Derivation centering
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Synonyms centre
Type of move, displace


That vase in the picture is not centered.
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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.
Type Words
Synonyms centre
Type of confection, sweet
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Synonyms mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall
Type of sales outlet, outlet, retail store, mercantile establishment
Type Words
Synonyms halfway, middle, midway
Type Words
Synonyms centre
Type of property, place
Has types nerve center, capital, nerve centre


they received messages from several centers.
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Synonyms snapper
Type of lineman


the center fumbled the handoff.
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
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.
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
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.
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Type of lineman


it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback.
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Type of position
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Type of cager, basketeer, basketball player
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Type of hockey player, ice-hockey player
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Type of class, stratum, socio-economic class, social class
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Type of formation


they had to reinforce the center.
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Type of position

Examples of center

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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.
From the stltoday.com
The emergency room at the center typically handled about 200 such cases a month.
From the stltoday.com
Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes.
From the stltoday.com
Bake about 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
From the stltoday.com
Bake about 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
From the stltoday.com
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
From the stltoday.com
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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More examples
  • 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.