dead-man's float
prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
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 |
| dead reckoning | navigation without the aid of celestial observations |
| Office of the Dead | an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church |
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 |
blind alley
cul de sac
dead-end street
impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
| 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 |
cul
cul de sac dead end | a passage with access only at one end |
day nursery
day care center | a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work |
| dead-air space | an unventilated area where no air circulates |
| dead axle | an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it |
| dead load | a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself |
| entertainment center | a wall unit containing sound and television systems |
morgue
mortuary
dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
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 |
World Trade Center
WTC
twin towers | twin skyscrapersstories high in New York City, built feet tall into , destroyed by a terrorist attack on September , |
| dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
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 |
dead hand
dead hand of the past
mortmain | the oppressive influence of past events or decisions |
| body dead body | a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person, they found the body in the lake |
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 |
guess
guesswork
guessing
shot
dead reckoning | an estimate based on little or no information |
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 |
| dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
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 |
| dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
| Dead Sea scrolls | (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late s, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus |
dead letter
dead mail | mail that can neither be delivered nor returned |
funeral march
dead march | a slow march to be played for funeral processions |
dead metaphor
frozen metaphor | a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake') |
| dead heat | a tie in a race |