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Center   /sˈɛntər/  /sˈɛnər/   Listen
Center

noun
1.
An area that is approximately central within some larger region.  Synonyms: centre, eye, heart, middle.  "They ran forward into the heart of the struggle" , "They were in the eye of the storm"
2.
The piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher.  Synonyms: center field, centerfield.
3.
A building dedicated to a particular activity.  Synonym: centre.
4.
A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure.  Synonyms: centre, midpoint.
5.
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.  Synonyms: centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum.  "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"
6.
The object upon which interest and attention focuses.  Synonyms: center of attention, centre, centre of attention.
7.
A cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process.  Synonyms: centre, nerve center, nerve centre.
8.
The middle of a military or naval formation.
9.
(basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team.
10.
(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback.  Synonym: snapper.
11.
A place where some particular activity is concentrated.  Synonym: centre.
12.
Politically moderate persons; centrists.
13.
(ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team.
14.
The sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering.  Synonym: centre.
15.
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.  Synonyms: mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall.  "They spent their weekends at the local malls"
16.
The position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game.
17.
(American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play.
18.
A position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game.
verb
(past & past part. centered or centred; pres. part. centering or centring)
1.
Center upon.  Synonyms: center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around.  "Our day revolved around our work"
2.
Direct one's attention on something.  Synonyms: centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet.
3.
Move into the center.  Synonym: centre.
adjective
1.
Equally distant from the extremes.  Synonyms: halfway, middle, midway.
2.
Of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually.



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"Center" Quotes from Famous Books



... Withers confounds the modern French town of Gallipolis, whose residents were the sad victims of Indian outrages rather than the abettors of them, with the old Shawnee town just below the mouth of the Scioto (site of Alexandria, O.). This fur-trading center was a village of log huts built by the French for the accommodation of their Shawnee allies, and was a center ...
— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers
... was the most eager at the first for the feast. He toiled like a hero, and all went well until he reached the last half pound. The others, grinning queerly through their grease and paint, watched him as did the group on the outside of the circle, while he, fully alive to the fact that he was the center of attention, went to work as if resolved to ...
— Camp-fire and Wigwam • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... discernible. As the darkness came on, Ethel discovered that a small light glowed from the side of the car in front of the driver. Gripping the hand-rail, she made bold to raise herself; and, stopping beneath the searchlight and machine-gun that hung, one beneath the other, on swivels in the center of the framework, she peered forward ...
— In the Clutch of the War-God • Milo Hastings
... a song Of a leaf that sailed along Down the golden-braided center of your current swift and strong, And a dragon-fly that lit On the tilting rim of it, And rode away and wasn't ...
— Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing - Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study • Anonymous
... center in himself and never apologized. His gospel of self-reliance came natural to him. He was emphatically self, without a trace of selfishness. He went abroad to study himself more than other people—to note the effect of Europe on himself. He says, "I believe it's sound philosophy that wherever ...
— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs


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