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 |
Center (v. t.) Alt. of Centre |
Counter-roll (n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. |
Ragman's roll () The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. |
Roll (n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over |
Roll (n.) To wrap round on itself |
Roll (n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage |
Roll (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling |
Roll (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words |
Roll (n.) To press or level with a roller |
Roll (n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels. |
Roll (n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum |
Roll (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping |
Roll (n.) To turn over in one's mind |
Roll (v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding |
Roll (v. i.) To move on wheels |
Roll (v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball |
Roll (v. i.) To fall or tumble |
Roll (v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution |
Roll (v. i.) To turn |
Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression. |
Roll (v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other |
Roll (v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down |
Roll (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin |
Roll (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear. |
Roll (v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise |
Roll (v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled |
Roll (v.) That which rolls |
Roll (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods. |
Roll (v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill |
Roll (v.) That which is rolled up |
Roll (v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up |
Roll (v.) Hence, an official or public document |
Roll (v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form |
Roll (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco. |
Roll (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself. |
Roll (v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching. |
Roll (v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound |
Roll (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. |
Roll (v.) Part |
roll bowl | the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) |
roll | a flight maneuver, aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude |
barrel roll | a roll in which the plane follows a spiral course |
snap roll | a fast roll |
roll | walking with a swaying gait |
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 |
c fuck fucking screw screwing ass nooky nookie piece of ass piece of tail roll in the hay shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
roll call | calling out an official list of names |
cast roll | the act of throwing dice |
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 |
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 |
roll | anything rolled up in cylindrical form |
roll | photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light |
roll film | photographic film wound on a spool |
roll of tobacco smoke | tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder |
roll-on | a woman's foundation garment rolled on to the hips |
roll-on | a dispenser of a liquid cosmetic (such as a deodorant) having a revolving ball as an applicator |
roll-on roll-off | a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination |
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 |
scroll roll | a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) |
roll roster | a list of names, his name was struck off the rolls |
muster roll | a list of names of officers and men in a military unit or ship's company |
church roll | a list of the members of church |
rock 'n' roll rock'n'roll rock-andoll rock and roll rock rock music | a genre of popular music originating in the s, a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western, rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll. |