Definitions for Center

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Center cen·ter

Spelling: [sen-ter]

IPA: /ˈsɛn tər/

Center is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in Center (ceenrt).

Definitions for Center

noun

1. Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
2. a point, pivot, axis, etc., around which anything rotates or revolves:
3. the source of an influence, action, force, etc.:
4. a point, place, person, etc., upon which interest, emotion, etc., focuses:
5. a principal point, place, or object:
6. a building or part of a building used as a meeting place for a particular group or having facilities for certain activities:
7. an office or other facility providing a specific service or dealing with a particular emergency:
8. a person, thing, group, etc., occupying the middle position, especially a body of troops.
9. the core or middle of anything:
10. a store or establishment devoted to a particular subject or hobby, carrying supplies, materials, tools, and books as well as offering guidance and advice:
11. shopping center.
12. (usually initial capital letter) Government. the part of a legislative assembly, especially in continental Europe, that sits in the center of the chamber, a position customarily assigned to members of the legislature who hold political views intermediate between those of the Right and Left. the members of such an assembly who sit in the Center. the political position of persons who hold moderate views. politically moderate persons, taken collectively; Centrists; middle-of-the-roaders:
13. Football. a lineman who occupies a position in the middle of the line and who puts the ball into play by tossing it between his legs to a back. the position played by this lineman.
14. Basketball. a player who participates in a center jump. the position of the player in the center of the court, where the center jump takes place at the beginning of play.
15. Ice Hockey. a player who participates in a face-off at the beginning of play.
16. Baseball. center field.
17. Physiology. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific organic process:
18. Mathematics. the mean position of a figure or system. the set of elements of a group that commute with every element of the group.
19. Machinery. a tapered rod, mounted in the headstock spindle (live center) or the tailstock spindle (dead center) of a lathe, upon which the work to be turned is placed. one of two similar points on some other machine, as a planing machine, enabling an object to be turned on its axis. a tapered indentation, in a piece to be turned on a lathe, into which a center is fitted.

Idioms

1. on center, from the centerline or midpoint of a structural member, an area of a plan, etc., to that of a similar member, area, etc.: Abbreviation: o.c.

verb (used with object)

1. to place in or on a center:
2. to collect to or around a center; focus:
3. to determine or mark the center of:
4. to adjust, shape, or modify (an object, part, etc.) so that its axis or the like is in a central or normal position:
5. to place (an object, part, etc.) so as to be equidistant from all bordering or adjacent areas.
6. Football. snap (def 21).
7. to pass (a basketball, hockey puck, etc.) from any place along the periphery toward the middle of the playing area.

verb (used without object)

1. to be at or come to a center.
2. to come to a focus; converge; concentrate (followed by at, about, around, in, or on):
3. to gather or accumulate in a cluster; collect (followed by at, about, around, in, or on):

Origin of Center

1325-75; variant of Middle English centre Latin centrum Greek kéntron needle, spur, pivoting point in drawing a circle, derivative of kenteîn to sting

Examples for Center

Bake on the center rack of the oven for 40 to 50 minutes or until set.

There was a certain careless calm about this that shook Andrew to his center again.

There was a thud as his fist hit the rickety, squeaking table in the center of the room.

Ebb and flow, checks and balances, the center would hold, et cetera.

The center has helped so many people in so many different ways.

On entering the hall, Ulysses saw the magic fountain in the center of it.

So not only will the GOP have control in the Senate, it will move the center of gravity on Capitol Hill hard to starboard.

It is the newspaper man's instinct to be in the center of the fray.

The joint of the 20-foot pieces should be directly in the center of the 10-foot piece.

Art is something that has been a highlight at The center since its first group show—“The center Show”—in 1989.