Central
(a.) Relating to the center |
Central
(n.) Alt. of Centrale |
Cologne earth
() An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter |
Core
(n.) A body of individuals |
Core
(n.) A miner's underground working time or shift. |
Core
(n.) A Hebrew dry measure |
Core
(n.) The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc. |
Core
(n.) The center or inner part, as of an open space |
Core
(n.) The most important part of a thing |
Core
(n.) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting |
Core
(n.) A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. |
Core
(n.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. |
Core
(v. t.) To take out the core or inward parts of |
Core
(v. t.) To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting. |
Earth
(n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit |
Earth
(n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water |
Earth
(n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock |
Earth
(n.) A part of this globe |
Earth
(n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things |
Earth
(n.) The people on the globe. |
Earth
(n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria. |
Earth
(n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta. |
Earth
(n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself |
Earth
(v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth |
Earth
(v. t.) To cover with earth or mold |
Earth
(v. i.) To burrow. |
Earth
(n.) A plowing. |
Earth flax
() A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. |
Earth shine
() See Earth light, under Earth. |
Earth-tongue
(n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Middle-earth
(n.) The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. |
Neuro-central
(a.) Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra |
Nucleus
(n.) A kernel |
Nucleus
(n.) The body or the head of a comet. |
Nucleus
(n.) An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue. |
Nucleus
(n.) A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats. |
Nucleus
(n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division. |
Nucleus
(n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell. |
Nucleus
(n.) The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum. |
Nucleus
(n.) A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks. |
| scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
central chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes troglodytes | black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa, closely related to eastern chimpanzees |
central
telephone exchange
exchange | a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication |
| central heating | a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators |
central processing unit
CPU
C.P.U.
central processor
processor
mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
| core | a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil |
| core | the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place |
| core magnetic core | (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data, now superseded by semiconductor memories, each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit |
| core bit | a hollow drilling bit that is the cutting part of a core drill, allows core samples to be taken |
| core drill | a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole |
| ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
magnetic core memory
core memory | (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores, now superseded by semiconductor memories |
fissure of Rolando
Rolando's fissure
central sulcus
sulcus centralis | a brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres, separates the frontal and parietal lobes |
lens nucleus
nucleus | the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex |
central artery of the retina
arteria centralis retinae | a branch of the ophthalmic artery, enters the eyeball with the optic nerve |
central veins of liver
venae centrales hepatis | terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids |
central vein of retina
vena centrales retinae | vein formed by the union of the retinal veins, accompanies central arteries of the retina in the optic nerve |
central vein of suprarenal gland
vena centralis glandulae suprarenalis | a single draining vein, on the right it empties into the inferior vena cava, on the left it empties into the left renal vein |
nucleus
cell nucleus
karyon | a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction |
centrosome
central body | small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus, contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules |
central nervous system
CNS
systema nervosum centrale | the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord |
| dentate nucleus | a large laminar nucleus of grey matter within the white matter of each cerebral hemisphere |
| central gyrus | either of two gyri on either side of the central sulcus |
amygdala
amygdaloid nucleus
corpus amygdaloideum | an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, intimately connected with the hypothalamus and the hippocampus and the cingulate gyrus, as part of the limbic system it plays an important role in motivation and emotional behavior |
caudate nucleus
caudate | a tail-shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain |
lenticular nucleus
lentiform nucleus | a basal ganglion shaped like a lens and including the outer reddish putamen and the inner pale yellow pallidum |
| subthalamic nucleus | an oval mass of grey matter located in the caudal part of the subthalamus, associated with the striate body |
substantia nigra
nucleus niger
locus niger | a layer of deeply pigmented grey matter in the midbrain, associated with the striate body, is involved in metabolic disturbances associated with Parkinson's disease and with Huntington's disease |
| nucleus | any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord |
| central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea, the middle part of the visual field |
worldly concern
earthly concern
world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | 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 |
| earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
| core dump | (computer science) dump of the contents of the chief registers in the CPU, usually used for debugging |
effect
essence
burden
core
gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
Thai
Siamese
Central Thai | a branch of the Tai languages |
| South-Central Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in south central India |
| Central Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India |
tremor
earth tremor
microseism | a small earthquake |
a Hizballah
Hezbollah
Hizbollah
Hizbullah
Lebanese Hizballah
Party of God
Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
Revolutionary Justice Organization
Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
Revolutionary Proletarian Nucleus
Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei
NIPR | a clandestine group of leftist extremists who oppose Italy's labor policies and foreign policy, responsible for bombing building in the historic center of Rome from to |
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest, headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council |
| Central Powers | in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies |
| Central America | the nations of Central America collectively |
core
nucleus
core group | a small group of indispensable persons or things, five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program |
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE | an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in to work for racial equality |
Central Intelligence Machinery
CIM | the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies |
| central bank | a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government |
| European Central Bank | the central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency, The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve |