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Definition of Centre
1. Verb. Move into the center. "That vase in the picture is not centered"
2. Noun. A low-lying region in central France.
3. Verb. Direct one's attention on something. "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
Specialized synonyms: Absorb, Engross, Engulf, Immerse, Plunge, Soak Up, Steep, Recall, Think, Zoom In, Hear, Listen, Take Heed
Generic synonyms: Cerebrate, Cogitate, Think
Related verbs: Rivet
Derivative terms: Center, Centering, Concentration, Concentration, Focus, Focusing, Focussing
4. Noun. An area that is approximately central within some larger region. "They were in the eye of the storm"
Generic synonyms: Area, Country
Specialized synonyms: Center Stage, Centre Stage, Central City, City Center, City Centre, Storm Center, Storm Centre, Financial Center, Hub, Inner City, Medical Center, Midfield, Seat, Midstream
Specialized synonyms: City Of London, The City
Derivative terms: Central, Centric, Centrical, Middle
5. Noun. A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure.
Specialized synonyms: 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
Generic synonyms: Point
Derivative terms: Center, Center, Central, Centric, Centrical
6. Noun. A place where some particular activity is concentrated. "They received messages from several centers"
Generic synonyms: Place, Property
Specialized synonyms: Nerve Center, Nerve Centre, Capital
7. Noun. The sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering.
8. Noun. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. "The nub of the story"
Generic synonyms: Cognitive Content, Content, Mental Object
Specialized synonyms: Bare Bones, Hypostasis, Haecceity, Quiddity, Quintessence, Stuff
Derivative terms: Central, Essential, Meaty, Pithy, Summate
9. Noun. The object upon which interest and attention focuses. "His stories made him the center of the party"
Generic synonyms: Object
Specialized synonyms: Conversation Piece, Crosshairs, Cynosure, Eye-catcher
Derivative terms: Center, Center, Central
10. Noun. A cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process. "In most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
Generic synonyms: Neural Structure
Specialized synonyms: 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
11. Noun. A building dedicated to a particular activity. "They were raising money to build a new center for research"
Generic synonyms: Building, Edifice
Specialized synonyms: 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
Definition of Centre
1. n. & v. See Center.
Definition of Centre
1. Proper noun. A région of France. ¹
2. Noun. (qualifier England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland Canada Australia New Zealand) Spelling of center ''(please click the American spelling to see the definitions).'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Centre
1. to center [v -TRED, -TRING, -TRES] - See also: center
Medical Definition of Centre
1. 1. The middle point of a body; loosely, the interior of a body. A centre of any kind, especially an anatomical centre. 2. A group of nerve cells governing a specific function. Synonym: centrum. Origin: L. Centrum; G. Kentron (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centre
Literary usage of Centre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"In deciding on a course to be pursued, the first point to be determined is, where
is the storm's centre? That being known, its probable path can be laid ..."
2. The Lancet (1898)
"This idea of the grouping together of definite classes of visual images within
the visual word-memory centre may at the first glance seem somewhat fantastic ..."
3. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte, John Machin (1729)
"In like manner the common centre of ... the df- flance between the common centre
of the three bodies» and the centre of the fourth is there alfo divided in ..."
4. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1864)
"Then the moment of the body relatively to any axis in a plane perpendicular to
G,G, will be altered by tin- amount W, -G, G3; and the centre of gravity of ..."
5. Proceedings by Journal, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1849)
"unequal weight, moving with the same velocity of revolution, at the same distance
from the centre, are to one another as the respective quantities of the ..."
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