Definitions for centres

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centres cen·tre

Spelling: [sen-ter]

IPA: /ˈsɛn tər/

Centres is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in centres (ceenrst).

Definitions for centres

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.

noun, verb

1. center.

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 centres

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 centres

"Prevention is better than cure," is the motto of these centres.

The diagram at bottom is to show the centres of heels in line with target.

These centres of academic excellence, it appears, are also breeding grounds for eating disorders.

Accordingly it was but seldom that towns grew up as centres of trade.

Plant your feet with the centres of the two heels in line with the target.

The offices and banks in Milan are centres of incessant energy.

These centres of trade had two hostile elements against them.

Baltimore was at that time one of the centres of the slave trade.

And these are the centres of society, on which it returns for fresh impulses.

In a hundred little ways these centres give help and instruction.