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 |
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 |
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 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 |
center
centre | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering |
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 |
Nonproliferation Center
NPC | an agency that serves as the focal point for all Intelligence Community activities related to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems |
National Climatic Data Center
NCDC | the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data |
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
FLETC | a center in the Department of that trains law enforcement professionals for more than seventy federal agencies |
Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
NAWCWPNS | the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems |
Naval Surface Warfare Center
NSWC | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare |
Naval Underwater Warfare Center
NUWC | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
Defense Technical Information Center
DTIC | the agency in the Department of Defense that provides scientific and technical information to federal agencies and their contractors |
placement office
placement center | an office that finds suitable employment for applicants |
Casualty Care Research Center
CCRC | an agency in the Department of Defense that is a national center for research on all aspects of injury control and casualty care |
| center | politically moderate persons, centrists |
| center | the middle of a military or naval formation, they had to reinforce the center |
| center centre | a place where some particular activity is concentrated, they received messages from several centers |
nerve center
nerve centre | a center that provides information and control, the nerve center of the diamond industry is in Amsterdam |
center
centre
midpoint | a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure |
center of buoyancy
centre of buoyancy
center of immersion
centre of immersion | (physics) the center of mass of the immersed part of ship or other floating object |