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centre
Found in thesaurus: area, country, point, property, place, confection, sweet, neural structure, edifice, building, move, displace, cerebrate, think, cogitate
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centre (Brit.)
n.
middle, midpoint, place located in the middle; organization or place which offers a specific kind of service or activity (i.e. medical center, sports center, etc.); filling of food (such as doughnut, chocolate, etc.); main area of a city; focus of attention; (Ice Hockey) player who takes part in a face-off at the start of play; (Baseball) center field
v.
place in the center, gather to a center; focus on a subject; be at a centre
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Center
Center or centre may refer to:
Mathematics and science
- Centre (geometry), the middle of an object
- Center (algebra), uses of "center" in algebra
- Centroid, geometric center
- Center of mass
- Center (group theory), in abstract algebra, the subgroup consisting of those elements which commute with all other elements
- Center of symmetry, in geometry, a point that is well-distant from the boundary of a figure
- Graph center, the vertices in a graph that minimize the maximal distance from all other vertices
- Center of gravity (military)
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Centre
Noun
1. a low-lying region in central France
(hypernym) French region
(part-holonym) France, French Republic
centre
Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) center, middle, heart, eye
(hypernym) area, country
(hyponym) center stage, centre stage
2. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
(synonym) center, midpoint
(hypernym) point
(hyponym) bight
(derivation) center
3. a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers"
(synonym) center
(hypernym) place, property
(hyponym) nerve center, nerve centre
4. the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
(synonym) center
(hypernym) sweet, confection, confectionery
(substance-holonym) chocolate candy
5. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
(synonym) center, nerve center, nerve centre
(hypernym) neural structure
(hyponym) auditory center
6. a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"
(synonym) center
(hypernym) building, edifice
(hyponym) burn center
Verb
1. move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered"
(synonym) center
(hypernym) move, displace
(derivation) center, midpoint
2. direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
(synonym) concentrate, focus, center, pore, rivet
(hypernym) think, cogitate, cerebrate
(hyponym) steep, immerse, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up
(verb-group) rivet
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centre
nm.
center, middle; focus; unit; focusing
centrer
v.
center
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centrar
v.
center
