Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle |
Center (n.) The middle or central portion of anything. |
Center (n.) A principal or important point of concentration |
Center (n.) The earth. |
Center (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left. |
Center (n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting. |
Center (n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves. |
Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe. |
Center (v. i.) Alt. of Centre |
Centre (v. i.) To be placed in a center |
Centre (v. i.) To be collected to a point |
Center (v. t.) Alt. of Centre |
Centre (v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point. |
Centre (v. t.) To collect to a point |
Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center. |
Centre (n. & v.) See Center. |
Demi-island (n.) Peninsula. |
Haven (n.) A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping |
Haven (n.) A place of safety |
Haven (v. t.) To shelter, as in a haven. |
Island (n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent. |
Island (n.) Anything regarded as resembling an island |
Island (n.) See Isle, n., 2. |
Island (v. t.) To cause to become or to resemble an island |
Island (v. t.) To furnish with an island or with islands |
Location (n.) The act or process of locating. |
Location (n.) Situation |
Location (n.) That which is located |
Location (n.) A leasing on rent. |
Location (n.) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. |
Location (n.) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. |
Oasis (n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert. |
Sea-island (a.) Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia |
location | a point or extent in space |
localization localisation location locating fix | a determination of the place where something is, he got a good fix on the target |
center field centerfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield |
center | a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game |
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 |
center | the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game |
placement location locating position positioning emplacement | the act of putting something in a certain place |
Leyte Leyte Island Leyte invasion | a battle in World War II, the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October , the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese |
Battle of Wake Battle of Wake Island | in December the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines |
Rhode Island red | American breed of heavy-bodied brownished general-purpose chicken |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
bullpen detention cell detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
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) |
center centre | a building dedicated to a particular activity, they were raising money to build a new center for research |
center bit centre bit | a bit with a sharp center point for guidance and two side cutters |
center field centerfield center | the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher, he hit the ball to deep center |
center punch | a tool with a conical point that is used to make indentations in metal (especially to mark points for drilling) |
community center civic 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 |
day nursery day care center | a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work |
entertainment center | a wall unit containing sound and television systems |
gas pump gasoline pump petrol pump island dispenser | a pump in a service station that draws gasoline from underground storage tanks |
haven oasis | a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary |
island | a zone or area resembling an island |
kitchen island | an unattached counter in a kitchen that permits access from all sides |
location | a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made, they shot the film on location in Nevada |
plaza mall center shopping mall shopping center shopping centre | 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 |
research center research facility | a center where research is done |
student center | a center for student activities at a college or university |
traffic island safety island safety isle safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
World Trade Center WTC twin towers | twin skyscrapersstories high in New York City, built feet tall into , destroyed by a terrorist attack on September , |
repose quiet placidity serenity tranquillity tranquility | a disposition free from stress or emotion |
dead center dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
center of curvature centre of curvature | the center of the circle of curvature |
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 |
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 |
Broca's area Broca's center Broca's gyrus Broca's convolution 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 |
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 |
center centre center of attention centre of attention | the object upon which interest and attention focuses, his stories made him the center of the party |
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 |
center spread centre spread | the spread at the center of a magazine |
change of location travel | a movement through space that changes the location of something |
tranquillity tranquility quietness quietude | a state of peace and quiet |
center centre | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering |
Thousand Island dressing | mayonnaise with chili sauce or catsup and minced olives and peppers and hardooked egg |
Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC | a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, located in Atlanta, investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases) |
Counterterrorist Center CTC | an agency that helps the Director of Central Intelligence coordinate counterterrorist efforts in order to preempt and disrupt and defeat terrorist activities at the earliest possible stage |