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/sˈɛntɐ/
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[ US /ˈsɛnɝ, ˈsɛntɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛnɝ, ˈsɛntɝ/ ]
NOUN
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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
they spent their weekends at the local malls
a good plaza should have a movie house -
the object upon which interest and attention focuses
his stories made him the center of the party -
the middle of a military or naval formation
they had to reinforce the center -
a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere -
(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
the center fumbled the handoff - (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
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an area that is approximately central within some larger region
they were in the eye of the storm
they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
it is in the center of town - the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
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the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
he hit the ball to deep center -
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
the gist of the prosecutor's argument
the nub of the story
the heart and soul of the Republican Party -
(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 - politically moderate persons; centrists
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
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a place where some particular activity is concentrated
they received messages from several centers -
a building dedicated to a particular activity
they were raising money to build a new center for research - (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
- a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
VERB
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direct one's attention on something
Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies -
center upon
Her entire attention centered on her children
Our day revolved around our work -
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
- equally distant from the extremes
How To Use center In A Sentence
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
- To avoid leaving the center posts in the permanent work, two rows of temporary posts were placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were built, and the posts were removed, as shown by Fig. 2, Plate LX, before placing the remainder of the lining. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
- I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.
- The screen is a bit of overkill because the audience is not that far from the center of action on the hot shop floor.
- Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
- At the extent of about 1/3 of the center of emission rim, the stimulated field density varies a little, can be basically considered as uniform field.
- Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
- Then there are the ruins of Dura-Europos, a Parthian caravan center founded in 300 B.C., halfway between Syria and Mesopotamia and known as the "Pompeii of the East.
- The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.