centre

centre is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun & verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be placed in a center; to be central. 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 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To be placed in a center; to be central.
2. intransitive verb. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
3. transitive verb. To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
4. transitive verb. To collect to a point; to concentrate.
5. transitive verb. To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
6. noun & verb. See Center.
7. noun. a building dedicated to a particular activity

   "they were raising money to build a new center for research"

   Synonyms: center

8. noun. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process

   "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"

   Synonyms: center

9. noun. the object upon which interest and attention focuses

   "his stories made him the center of the party"

   Synonyms: center

10. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: center, core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance

11. noun. the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering

    Synonyms: center

12. noun. a place where some particular activity is concentrated

    "they received messages from several centers"

    Synonyms: center

13. noun. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

    Synonyms: center, midpoint

14. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: center, eye, heart, middle

15. noun. a low-lying region in central France
16. verb. direct one's attention on something

    "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

    Synonyms: center, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet

17. verb. move into the center

    "That vase in the picture is not centered"

    Synonyms: center

Synonyms

center, core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance, sum, midpoint, eye, middle, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in centre:

center, recent, tenrec

Common word forms

centred, centrer, centres, centring, centreless

Words from these letters

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