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| n. (location) | 1. center, centre, eye, heart, middle | 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"; "they were in the eye of the storm" |
| ~ area, country | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).; "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" |
| ~ center stage, centre stage | the central area on a theater stage. |
| ~ central city, city center, city centre | the central part of a city. |
| ~ storm center, storm centre | the central area or place of lowest barometric pressure within a storm. |
| ~ financial center | the part of a city where financial institutions are centered. |
| ~ hub | a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve.; "the playground is the hub of parental supervision"; "the airport is the economic hub of the area" |
| ~ inner city | the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city. |
| ~ medical center | the part of a city where medical facilities are centered. |
| ~ midfield | (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse). |
| ~ seat | a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised). |
| ~ city of london, the city | the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London. |
| ~ midstream | the middle of a stream. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. center, center field, centerfield | the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher.; "he hit the ball to deep center" |
| ~ outfield | the area of a baseball playing field beyond the lines connecting the bases. |
| ~ parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel | an extended area of land. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. center, centre | a building dedicated to a particular activity.; "they were raising money to build a new center for research" |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| ~ burn center | a center where patients with severe burns can be treated. |
| ~ call center, call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers). |
| ~ civic center, community center | a center where the members of a community can gather for social or cultural activities. |
| ~ conference center, conference house | a center where conferences can be conducted. |
| ~ control center | the operational center for a group of related activities.; "the general in command never left the control center" |
| ~ research center, research facility | a center where research is done. |
| ~ service club | a recreational center for servicemen. |
| ~ settlement house | a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services. |
| ~ student center | a center for student activities at a college or university. |
| n. (location) | 4. center, centre, midpoint | a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure. |
| ~ bight | the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends). |
| ~ center of curvature, centre of curvature | the center of the circle of curvature. |
| ~ bowels | the center of the Earth. |
| ~ bull's eye, bull | the center of a target. |
| ~ center of gravity, centre of gravity | the point within something at which gravity can be considered to act; in uniform gravity it is equal to the center of mass. |
| ~ center of mass, centre of mass | point representing the mean position of the matter in a body. |
| ~ core | the center of an object.; "the ball has a titanium core" |
| ~ navel point, navel | the center point or middle of something.; "the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe" |
| ~ nombril | the center point on a shield. |
| ~ point | the precise location of something; a spatially limited location.; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street" |
| ~ core | the central part of the Earth. |
| ~ nucleus | the positively charged dense center of an atom. |
| ~ nucleus | (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum | 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"; "the nub of the story" |
| ~ cognitive content, mental object, content | the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. |
| ~ bare bones | (plural) the most basic facts or elements.; "he told us only the bare bones of the story" |
| ~ hypostasis | (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality. |
| ~ haecceity, quiddity | the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other. |
| ~ quintessence | the purest and most concentrated essence of something. |
| ~ stuff | a critically important or characteristic component.; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative" |
| n. (cognition) | 6. center, center of attention, centre, centre of attention | the object upon which interest and attention focuses.; "his stories made him the center of the party" |
| ~ object | the focus of cognitions or feelings.; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection" |
| ~ conversation piece | something interesting that stimulates conversation. |
| ~ crosshairs | a center of interest.; "the war on terrorism has put Saddam Hussein in the crosshairs" |
| ~ cynosure | something that strongly attracts attention and admiration.; "if he was the cynosure of all eyes he didn't notice" |
| ~ eye-catcher | a striking person or thing that attracts attention. |
| n. (body) | 7. center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre | a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process.; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere" |
| ~ neural structure | a structure that is part of the nervous system. |
| ~ auditory center | the part of the brain (in a fold of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain) that receives impulses from the ear by way of the auditory nerve. |
| ~ olfactory brain, rhinencephalon | a center in the cerebral hemispheres that governs the sense of smell in lower animals; in humans it seems to mediate complex emotional behavior. |
| ~ broca's area, broca's center, broca's convolution, broca's gyrus, convolution of broca | the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people. |
| ~ wernicke's area, wernicke's center | the auditory word center; located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people. |
| ~ superior colliculus | an essential visual center between the retina and the striate cortex. |
| ~ inferior colliculus | an essential auditory center in the midbrain. |
| ~ respiratory center | the center in the medulla oblongata and pons that integrates sensory information about the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood and determines the signals to be sent to the respiratory muscles. |
| n. (group) | 8. center | the middle of a military or naval formation.; "they had to reinforce the center" |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit.; "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes" |
| n. (person) | 9. center | (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team. |
| ~ basketball, basketball game, hoops | a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop. |
| ~ basketball player, basketeer, cager | an athlete who plays basketball. |
| ~ bill russell, william felton russell, russell | United States basketball center (born in 1934). |
| n. (person) | 10. center, snapper | (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback.; "the center fumbled the handoff" |
| ~ football, football game | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal. |
| ~ lineman | one of the players on the line of scrimmage. |
| n. (location) | 11. center, centre | a place where some particular activity is concentrated.; "they received messages from several centers" |
| ~ place, property | any area set aside for a particular purpose.; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House" |
| ~ nerve center, nerve centre | a center that provides information and control.; "the nerve center of the diamond industry is in Amsterdam" |
| ~ capital | a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product.; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia" |
| n. (group) | 12. center | politically moderate persons; centrists. |
| ~ social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class | people having the same social, economic, or educational status.; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" |
| ~ centrist, middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist | a person who takes a position in the political center. |
| n. (person) | 13. center | (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team. |
| ~ hockey game, ice hockey, hockey | a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks. |
| ~ hockey player, ice-hockey player | an athlete who plays hockey. |
| n. (food) | 14. center, centre | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering. |
| ~ confection, sweet | a food rich in sugar. |
| ~ chocolate candy | candy made with chocolate. |
| n. (artifact) | 15. center, mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall | 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" |
| ~ food court | an area (as in a shopping mall) where fast food is sold (usually around a common eating area). |
| ~ mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet | a place of business for retailing goods. |
| n. (act) | 16. center | the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game. |
| ~ position | (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player.; "what position does he play?" |
| ~ hockey team | a team that plays ice hockey. |
| n. (act) | 17. center | (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" |
| ~ lineman | (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage. |
| ~ football team, eleven | a team that plays football. |
| n. (act) | 18. center | a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game. |
| ~ position | (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player.; "what position does he play?" |
| ~ basketball team, five | a team that plays basketball. |
| v. (stative) | 19. center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around | center upon.; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" |
| ~ bear on, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, come to, refer, relate, touch on, touch | be relevant to.; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" |
| v. (cognition) | 20. center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet | direct one's attention on something.; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" |
| ~ engross, engulf, steep, immerse, soak up, absorb, plunge | devote (oneself) fully to.; "He immersed himself into his studies" |
| ~ cerebrate, cogitate, think | use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments.; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" |
| ~ rivet | hold (someone's attention).; "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists" |
| ~ recall | cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression.; "She was recalled by a loud laugh" |
| ~ think | focus one's attention on a certain state.; "Think big"; "think thin" |
| ~ zoom in | examine closely; focus one's attention on.; "He zoomed in on the book" |
| ~ take heed, listen, hear | listen and pay attention.; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision" |
| v. (motion) | 21. center, centre | move into the center.; "That vase in the picture is not centered" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| adj. | 22. center, halfway, middle, midway | equally distant from the extremes. |
| ~ central | in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area.; "a central position" |
| adj. | 23. center | of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually. |
| ~ centrist, middle-of-the-road | supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative. |
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