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[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun center has 18 senses

1. center(n = noun.location) centre, eye, heart, middle - 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"
is a kind of area, country
has particulars: center stage, centre stage, central city, city center, city centre, storm center, storm centre, financial center, hub, inner city, medical center, midfield, seat, midstream, city of london, the city
Derived forms adjective central₂, adjective centric₁, adjective centrical₁

2. center(n = noun.artifact) center field, centerfield - the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher; "he hit the ball to deep center"
is a kind of parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract
is a part of outfield

3. center(n = noun.artifact) centre - a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"
is a kind of building, edifice
has particulars: burn center, call center, call centre, civic center, community center, conference center, conference house, control center, research center, research facility, service club, settlement house, student center

4. center(n = noun.location) centre, midpoint - a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure; Array
is a kind of point
has particulars: bight, center of curvature, centre of curvature, bowels, bull, bull's eye, center of gravity, centre of gravity, center of mass, centre of mass, core, navel, navel point, nombril, core, nucleus, nucleus
Derived forms verb center₃, adjective center₁, adjective central₂, adjective centric₁, adjective centrical₁

5. center(n = noun.cognition) centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum - 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"
is a kind of cognitive content, content, mental object
has particulars: bare bones, hypostasis, haecceity, quiddity, quintessence, stuff
Derived form adjective central₁

6. center(n = noun.cognition) center of attention, centre, centre of attention - the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party"
is a kind of object
has particulars: conversation piece, crosshairs, cynosure, eye-catcher
Derived forms verb center₂, verb center₁, adjective central₁

7. center(n = noun.body) centre, nerve center, nerve centre - a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
is a kind of neural structure
has particulars: auditory center, olfactory brain, rhinencephalon, broca's area, broca's center, broca's convolution, broca's gyrus, convolution of broca, wernicke's area, wernicke's center, superior colliculus, inferior colliculus, respiratory center

8. center(n = noun.group) Array - the middle of a military or naval formation; "they had to reinforce the center"
is a kind of formation

9. center(n = noun.person) Array - (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team; Array
is a kind of basketball player, basketeer, cager
has particulars: bill russell, russell, william felton russell

10. center(n = noun.person) snapper - (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff"
is a kind of lineman

11. center(n = noun.location) centre - a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers"
is a kind of place, property
has particulars: nerve center, nerve centre, capital

12. center(n = noun.group) Array - politically moderate persons; centrists; Array
is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
Derived form adjective center₂

13. center(n = noun.person) Array - (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team; Array
is a kind of hockey player, ice-hockey player

14. center(n = noun.food) centre - the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering; Array
is a kind of confection, sweet

15. center(n = noun.artifact) mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping 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"
is a kind of mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet
has parts: food court

16. center(n = noun.act) Array - the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game; Array
is a kind of position
is a member of hockey team

17. center(n = noun.act) Array - (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"
is a kind of lineman
is a member of eleven, football team

18. center(n = noun.act) Array - a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game; Array
is a kind of position
is a member of basketball team, five

Adjective center has 2 senses

1. center(s = adj.all) halfway, middle, midway - equally distant from the extremes; Array
Derived form noun center₄

2. center(a = adj.all) Array - of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually; Array
Antonyms: left, right
Derived form noun center₁₂

Verb center has 3 senses

1. center(v = verb.stative) center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around - center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work"
is one way to bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on
Derived forms noun center₆, noun centering₁
Sample sentences: Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s PP

2. center(v = verb.cognition) centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet - direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
is one way to cerebrate, cogitate, think
Derived forms noun center₆, noun centering₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s on something

3. center(v = verb.motion) centre - move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered"
is one way to displace, move
Derived form noun center₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

center, n. [F. centre, fr. L. centrum, fr. round which a circle is described, fr. to prick, goad.].

1. A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place. [1913 Webster]

2. The middle or central portion of anything. [1913 Webster]

3. A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction. [1913 Webster]

4. The earth. Shak. [1913 Webster]

5. Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left. [1913 Webster]

6. A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting. [1913 Webster]

7. One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves. [1913 Webster]
" In a lathe the live center is in the spindle of the head stock; the dead center is on the tail stock. Planer centers are stocks carrying centers, when the object to be planed must be turned on its axis." [1913 Webster]

Center of an army, the body or troops occupying the place in the line between the wings. -- Center of a curve or Center of a surface (Geom.) (a) A point such that every line drawn through the point and terminated by the curve or surface is bisected at the point. (b) The fixed point of reference in polar coördinates. See Coördinates. -- Center of curvature of a curve (Geom.), the center of that circle which has at any given point of the curve closer contact with the curve than has any other circle whatever. See Circle. -- Center of a fleet, the division or column between the van and rear, or between the weather division and the lee. -- Center of gravity (Mech.), that point of a body about which all its parts can be balanced, or which being supported, the whole body will remain at rest, though acted upon by gravity. -- Center of gyration (Mech.), that point in a rotating body at which the whole mass might be concentrated (theoretically) without altering the resistance of the intertia of the body to angular acceleration or retardation. -- Center of inertia (Mech.), the center of gravity of a body or system of bodies. -- Center of motion, the point which remains at rest, while all the other parts of a body move round it. -- Center of oscillation, the point at which, if the whole matter of a suspended body were collected, the time of oscillation would be the same as it is in the actual form and state of the body. -- Center of percussion, that point in a body moving about a fixed axis at which it may strike an obstacle without communicating a shock to the axis. -- Center of pressure (Hydros.), that point in a surface pressed by a fluid, at which, if a force equal to the whole pressure and in the same line be applied in a contrary direction, it will balance or counteract the whole pressure of the fluid.

center, v. i.

1. To be placed in a center; to be central. [1913 Webster]

2. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. [1913 Webster]
"Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies." [1913 Webster]
"Our hopes must center in ourselves alone." [1913 Webster]

center, v. t.

1. To place or fix in the center or on a central point. Milton. [1913 Webster]

2. To collect to a point; to concentrate. [1913 Webster]
"Thy joys are centered all in me alone." [1913 Webster]

3. To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

center, US var. of CENTRE.

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Focus

N focus, point of convergence, corradiation, center, gathering place, resort haunt retreat, venue, rendezvous, rallying point, headquarters, home, club, depot, trysting place, place of meeting, place of resort, place of assignation, point de reunion, issue.

Centrality

N centrality, centricalness, center, middle, focus, core, kernel, nucleus, nucleolus, heart, pole axis, bull's eye, nave, navel, umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith, vertebra, vertebral column, hotbed, concentration, centralization, symmetry, center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of oscillation, center of buoyancy, metacenter, central, centrical, middle, azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric, middlemost, rachidian, spinal, vertebral, middle, midst, centrally.