Dictionary Entry
center
center is a 6-letter English word with 33 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 33 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The middle or central portion of anything.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
The earth.
- 5noun
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 Left.
- 6noun
A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
- 7noun
One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
- 8noun
A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
- 9intransitive verb
Alt. of Centre
- 10transitive verb
Alt. of Centre
- 11noun
a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
- 12noun
(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"
- 13noun
the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
- 14noun
a building dedicated to a particular activity
"they were raising money to build a new center for research"
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- 15noun
the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
"he hit the ball to deep center"
- 16noun
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"
- 17noun
a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
"in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
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- 18noun
the object upon which interest and attention focuses
"his stories made him the center of the party"
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- 19noun
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"
- 20noun
the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
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- 21noun
politically moderate persons; centrists
- 22noun
the middle of a military or naval formation
"they had to reinforce the center"
- 23noun
a place where some particular activity is concentrated
"they received messages from several centers"
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- 24noun
a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- 25noun
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"
- 26noun
(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
"the center fumbled the handoff"
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- 27noun
(basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
- 28noun
(ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
- 29verb
direct one's attention on something
"Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
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- 30verb
move into the center
"That vase in the picture is not centered"
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- 31verb
center upon
"Her entire attention centered on her children"
"Our day revolved around our work"
- 32adjective
equally distant from the extremes
- 33adjective
of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
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