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Meaning center meaning

What does center mean?
Definitions in simple English

center Noun

— The center of something, is the place that is as far from its outside as possible. The president and his problems continue to take center stage in the news. She placed a flowers at the center of the table and then hurried off. — A center is a building, area, or group of people with a particular purpose. They have opened a large shopping center in Taipei. The team was staying at the US Olympic training center. Recently, Bahrain has become a major international banking center. Scientists at the Center for Disease Control have found a new virus. — The town center is the place in the town where most of the shops are. — In politics, the center is the position that is not politically right or left. — In sports, a center is a player who plays in the middle of the field, usually an attacker.

center Verb

— If you center something, you move it towards the center.

center

— noun (= centre, heart, eye) 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 — verb (= center on, revolve around) center upon Her entire attention centered on her children Our day revolved around our work — noun the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher he hit the ball to deep center — noun (= centre) a building dedicated to a particular activity they were raising money to build a new center for research — noun a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure — verb (= focus) direct one's attention on something Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies — noun (= centre) a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere — noun (= centre) the object upon which interest and attention focuses his stories made him the center of the party — noun (= gist, heart, heart and soul, nub) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience the gist of the prosecutor's argument the heart and soul of the Republican Party the nub of the story — noun the middle of a military or naval formation they had to reinforce the center — adjective equally distant from the extremes — noun politically moderate persons; centrists — noun (= centre) a place where some particular activity is concentrated they received messages from several centers — noun (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback the center fumbled the handoff — noun (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team — noun (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team — noun the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering — noun a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game — noun (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback — noun the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game — verb (= centre) move into the center That vase in the picture is not centered — adjective of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually — noun (= plaza, mall) 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 a good plaza should have a movie house they spent their weekends at the local malls

Synonyms center synonyms

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center English » English

centre middle core heart focus midpoint concentrate nucleus midst kernel nerve centre nerve center hub central pivot essence shopping center seat nub median marrow mall junction center of attention capital substance shopping mall revolve about plaza navel midway medium meat inwardness hotbed halfway gist focus on focalize centre of attention centralize centerfield center on center field between sum soil snapper shopping centre rivet

Topics center topics

What do people use center to talk about?
States Parts of things

Middle
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Meeting, assembly
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
States Location Here, there Beside

Between
Person Healthy Treat disease

Hospital
Physical actions Physical impact

Aim at a target
Person Life Stage of life

Old person
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Attention
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Be about, subject
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Roof
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Room
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building materials
Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road

Conjugation center conjugation

How do you conjugate center?

center · verb

Examples center examples

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Simple sentences

The library is in the center of the city.
The biggest, densest population center in England is London.
What operas are being performed at the Lincoln Center right now?
Where's the information center for hotels?
Paris is the center of the world, in a way.
What train goes to the center of town?
What subway goes to the center of town?
The fire, driven by an east wind, destroyed the center of the city.
I hear the store is in the center of the city.
The town developed into the center of the economy.
There is a nice park in the center of the town.
The park lies in the center of the city.
The bus will take you to the center of the city.
The tourist information center gave a city map to whoever asked it.
Our travel advice center caters to the independent traveler.
Can you tell me how to get to Lincoln Center?
Where's the shopping center?
This road will lead you to the station and the city center.

Movie subtitles

You're like the smartest, best, most deserving elder this center has ever seen.
We just walk up like we're at the missionary training center.
I just got stuck with you by the missionary training center!
Epcot Center.
Mission Control Center.
Here at nasa's Ames Research Center in northern California, astronomer Peter schultz and his team are testing to see if this theory of Panspermia is even remotely possible.
You know. Double doors. the kind that open in the center, and, um. But one of the hinges was broken, so. they.
And if the red giant does not have enough mass to fuse carbon, an inert mass of carbon and oxygen builds up in the center, transforming into a dense white dwarf.
You went by the city center? - Yeah.
I will if you stay away from the center.
At the Evacuation Center of the Kursky Railway Station.
Among the employees of the center was Natasha, Engineer Los' wife.
That day they were distributing food rations at the Evacuation Center.
At the Evacuation Center, people were actively preparing for a show.
Because I went by the city center - and Cal had his arm around him.
Wait, wait, wait. - You went by the city center?
Again the working-cIass quarters are cut off from the center.
Contact between the districts and the center is restored.
The vampire attacks his victim's neck and leaves two tiny white wounds with a red dot in the center.
Now the boys are locked in the center of the ring.
Now the boys are at it in the center of the ring!
Now they're in the center of the ring, and the crowd hurrahs.
Fire at the center!
Skee Ball showing the way in the center of the track by two lengths.
Remaining archers will use center target.
You want to get the center built?
Inside the center, my boys will be clean, and outside.. they'dbesurroundedbythesame corruption and crime and criminals.
The place I'm going to is the ICC, isn't Gim Bong Gu at the detention center-- What if he were to escape?
Double doors. the kind that open in the center, and, um. But one of the hinges was broken, so. they. they kept that locked.
You went by the city center?
The old mill is at the center of the battle.
You know, Paris is a great art center.
Well, you better put them in the center, because that's just what I'm going to bet.
Through the center.
In the city's center is a casino. In the town's center is a palace.

News and current affairs

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has declared that the two issues at the center of the G-8 Summit this July will be African poverty and global climate change.
During any lull, a fanatic from either side could jump to center stage and, through an act of utter madness, kick up the settling dust and dash the hopes of the many on both sides who still long for a lasting peace.
Afghanistan poses particular difficulties in reconstruction, as it is not a society with a strong political center.
In a fast changing world, this skepticism of the center is the only sensible attitude a responsible political party and government can strike.
On the other hand, a center-right coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Free Democrats could spark the ECB into action.
But the heady glow of America's return to center stage in Asia has obscured key challenges in remaining the region's principal security anchor in the face of China's strategic ambitions.
Yet the Obama administration continues to deny that China is at the center of its strategy.
Second, they existed without any fiscal transfers from a common center, because such a center did not exist.
London, in particular, has no inalienable right to be a global financial center.
But even if Vladimir Putin's associates had nothing to do with Politkovskaya being gunned down in an elevator of her apartment building in the center of Moscow, his contempt for law created the climate in which the murder was carried out.
While product markets have held center stage in the creation of the single European market, services continue to be fragmented by national regulatory, anti-competitive practices.
President Putin's success, however, has bred its own problem: he consolidated power at the center so well that opposition is brewing in Russia's regions.
In the past, that dividing line separated right and left, but the line at the forthcoming elections will run between the federal center and the regions.
Indeed, emerging giants from Latin America and Asia will be at the center of worldwide investment in the coming decades.
All were alive and healthy for one reason only: the Joint Clinical Research Center in Kampala, and the drugs that it provides them.
Peter Mugyenyi, who runs the Joint Clinical Research Center, told me that part of the problem is the sheer weight of numbers.
Voters of the center or even the center-right are disappointed, too, by their president's lack of charisma, if not sheer incompetence.
This year, one of the conclusions that such reflection yields is that the United States remains firmly at the center of the liberal world order.
They center on the social policies that would accompany a broadly similar set of economic measures; and, here, the differences between the candidates are consequential.
Until recently, few believed that Africa, too, could become a center for modern manufacturing.
In 1986, Nakasone went to Beijing at the personal invitation of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang and laid the cornerstone for a Sino-Japanese Youth Exchange Center, promising to forge future friendships with China.
As the world's center of economic gravity shifts east, the balance of financial activity is bound to move with it.
After all, Egypt is the heart, brain, and nerve center of the Arab world.

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