Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To be placed in a center; to be central.
- 2intransitive verb
To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
- 3transitive verb
To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
- 4transitive verb
To collect to a point; to concentrate.
- 5transitive verb
To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
- 6noun & verb
See Center.
- 7noun
a building dedicated to a particular activity
"they were raising money to build a new center for research"
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- 8noun
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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- 9noun
the object upon which interest and attention focuses
"his stories made him the center of the party"
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- 10noun
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"
- 11noun
the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
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- 12noun
a place where some particular activity is concentrated
"they received messages from several centers"
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- 13noun
a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- 14noun
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"
- 15noun
a low-lying region in central France
- 16verb
direct one's attention on something
"Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
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- 17verb
move into the center
"That vase in the picture is not centered"
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