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centre English

Meaning centre meaning

What does centre mean?
Definitions in simple English

centre Noun

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

centre Verb

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

centre

— noun (= center) a building dedicated to a particular activity they were raising money to build a new center for research — noun (= center) the object upon which interest and attention focuses his stories made him the center of the party — noun (= center) a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere — noun (= center) the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering — noun (= center, 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 — noun (= center) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure — noun (= center) a place where some particular activity is concentrated they received messages from several centers — verb (= center) move into the center That vase in the picture is not centered — verb (= focus) direct one's attention on something Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies — 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

Centre

— noun a low-lying region in central France

Synonyms centre synonyms

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centre English » English

center middle heart core focus midst hub concentrate nerve centre nerve center midpoint mean kernel industrial complex center of attention source pivot nucleus medium focalize centre of attention centralize central cause average among very middle sum substance soil seat rivet pore pith nub nitty-gritty milieu metropolis meat marrow junction inwardness inside heart and soul ground gist focal point eye essence environment

Centre English » English

midsection center Toyama Shizuoka Nagano Ishikawa Gifu Fukui Chūbu region Aichi

Conjugation centre conjugation

How do you conjugate centre?

centre · verb

Examples centre examples

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Simple sentences

A tram collided with a bus in the centre of the town.
I signed on at the job centre.
The line of cars stretched all the way from the expressway to the city centre.
My office is in the city centre.
Market Square is the historic centre of the city.
There's a splendid park in the centre of the town.
Can you tell me which bus or train I can take to get to the town centre?
The post office is in the town centre.
The airport is quite far from the city centre.
A dictatorship means, by definition, one centre of power.
Before the 15th century it was generally believed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe.
They passed the hat round to raise funds for the new sports centre.
The giraffe cannot swim because its centre of gravity is so high that it would topple over.
He thinks that he's the centre of the universe.
It's not safe in the city centre after midnight on weekends because of all the drunks roaming the streets.
Rynok Square is the historic centre of the city.
There is a swimming pool and a big sports centre.
There's lots to do: there are cinemas and lots of shops in the town centre.
All the museums of my city are in the city centre.
Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.
Earth is not the centre of the world.
Their mistake was thinking of themselves as centrality. Humanity is not the centre of the universe. The Earth is not the centre of the universe.

Movie subtitles

In England, the most important commercial centre in the country was almost completely autonomous.
We've checked all backpackers', motels, the visitors' centre, pubs, cafes.
Even when they're dead, they like to be the centre of attention.
We're going to get one in our Community Centre.
Take the Karabakh zone in the South. It's been at the centre of a ten-year conflict.
There's a chance he might be hiding in the big structure at the centre of that complex.
Daskasan has been the neural centre of ArmsTech's activities for years now.
Hello. Centre 20498.
Centre 20849.
And on the big day. you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals. put them in the centre dressed in their underpants. and let 'em fight it out with clubs.
Say, look, how are things down on Centre Street?
When the Vice-president calls you, I'll meet you in the centre aisle.
The left wing parties should come to an agreement with those in the centre and those to the extreme left.
We are at the Centre.
But, Nicolaus Copernicus came and said that the Sun stood at the Centre and that we moved around it.
We became usedto it and knew no better than the Sun stood at the Centre and we orbited around it.
In the centre part of this disc the stars were densely packed in space.
And that the Sun was not at the Centre.
Large quantities of dust between the stars obscured a clear view to distant parts and the Centre.
It consists of one electrically charged proton at the centre and one electrically charged electron that orbits the centre, just like a planet around the Sun.
Here you see the result and you see that the hydrogen clouds form a spiral shaped band around the Galactic Centre.
Here is the Sun, here the Galactic Centre and the hydrogen clouds form an arm around it.
With a centre parting.
Hynkel's palace was the centre of the world's greatest war machine.
Don't change, find a place in the centre.
I'm their centre forward.
And he jumped 18 floors into Centre Street before Paul got at him.
The Youth Custody Centre.
Until the Youth Custody Centre was bombed apart.
We are standing exactly in the centre of the city, with its great buildings and temples.
And you'll be the centre of attention.
He once read a book by Jules Verne about people who went to the centre of the Earth. There they saw prehistoric animals. So he thought we should take a trip like that.
This is the recreational and cultural centre.
It's down the shopping centre.
I found them at the shopping centre.
He's the centre of fashion in Moscow.
Duke Snider, centre field.

News and current affairs

Despite nationalist parties' success in France, the same is true of the setback for President Jacques Chirac's centre-right party.
In a recent poll of British economists by the Centre for Macroeconomics, two-thirds agreed that austerity had harmed the UK economy.
A report from Australia's National Centre for Climate Restoration is no less alarming.
The number of seats won by the socialists and centre-right parties is likely to influence the make-up of the next European Commission - and thus the EU's political agenda until 2014.
As a result, big projects such as the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), were founded to help unite European research efforts in basic science.
In November, several unions organized rallies where demonstrators cursed the ruling centre-right government and invoked the Ceausescu era as one relatively good and secure.
For example: the Immunology Laboratories in Cameroon, the African Centre for Meteorological Applications in Niger, and the African Centre for Technology in Senegal could be transformed into international centers of excellence.
But the only European biomedical research that has used great apes recently is the Biomedical Primate Research Centre at Rijswijk, in the Netherlands.
The Benelux countries, some Scandinavian states, and many of the new Europeans of East Central Europe have chosen traditionally right-of-centre parties.
An alternative hypothesis, which seems to fit the facts, recently emerged from the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Dysfunctionality in Capital Markets, at the London School of Economics.
But, as Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform argues, Russian leaders' concept of modernization is overly statist, particularly given that public institutions function so badly.
He may even offer an alternative vision to the bureaucratic bankers' Europe promoted by Helmut Kohl and the Franco-German centre-right.
Skirmishes with the centre-left are nothing new for Europe: Jacques Delors championed a Christian-Democrat view; Lionel Jospin comes from even further left than that.
But, according to a comprehensive study released last month by the National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU), the assessment on which this decision was based was deeply flawed.

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