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center
English
- 🔊 of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
- 🔊 a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
- 🔊 (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”
- 🔊 the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
- 🔊 a building dedicated to a particular activity“they were raising money to build a new center for research”
- 🔊 a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process“in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere”
- 🔊 the object upon which interest and attention focuses“his stories made him the center of the party”
- 🔊 the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
- 🔊 politically moderate persons
- 🔊 the middle of a military or naval formation“they had to reinforce the center”
- 🔊 a place where some particular activity is concentrated“they received messages from several centers”
- 🔊 a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- 🔊 an area that is approximately central within some larger region“it is in the center of town”
- 🔊 (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback“the center fumbled the handoff”
- 🔊 (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
- 🔊 (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
- 🔊 the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher“he hit the ball to deep center”
- 🔊 mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers“a good plaza should have a movie house”
- 🔊 the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience“the gist of the prosecutor's argument”
- 🔊 move into the center“That vase in the picture is not centered”
- 🔊 direct one's attention on something“Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies”
- 🔊 center upon“Her entire attention centered on her children”
Spanish
- 🔊 center center
- 🔊 central center
- 🔊 centro center
- 🔊 centro center, moderate tendencies or ideas
- 🔊 mediar to center, to give a central, medium or average value
- 🔊 medio center, heart (the innermost part of anything with regard to all dimensions)