amble promenade saunter stroll perambulation | a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) |
city planning town planning urban planning | determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community |
bullpen detention cell detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
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 |
city hall | a building that houses administrative offices of a municipal government |
city university | an urban university in a large city |
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 |
row house town house | a house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls |
town hall | a government building that houses administrative offices of a town government |
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 |
Celestial City City of God Heavenly City Holy City | phrases used to refer to Heaven, the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress' |
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 |
talk talk of the town | idle gossip or rumor, there has been talk about you lately |
center centre | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering |
the City | used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain |
city desk city room | the editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news |
city state city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city |
city metropolis | people living in a large densely populated municipality, the city voted for Republicans in |
town townspeople townsfolk | the people living in a municipality smaller than a city, the whole town cheered the team |
village small town settlement | a community of people smaller than a town |
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 |
city council | a municipal body that can pass ordinances and appropriate funds etc. |
town meeting | government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters |
town meeting | a meeting of the inhabitants of a town |
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 |
city line | the boundary of a city |
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 |
center of gravity centre of gravity | the point within something at which gravity can be considered to act, in uniform gravity it is equal to the center of mass |
center of flotation centre of flotation | the center of gravity of a floating object |
center of mass centre of mass | point representing the mean position of the matter in a body |
center centre middle heart eye | an area that is approximately central within some larger region, it is in the center of town, they ran forward into the heart of the struggle, they were in the eye of the storm |
center stage centre stage | the central area on a theater stage |
city center city centre central city | the central part of a city |
storm center storm centre | the central area or place of lowest barometric pressure within a storm |
city metropolis urban center | a large and densely populated urban area, may include several independent administrative districts, Ancient Troy was a great city |
city district | a district of a town or city |
city | an incorporated administrative district established by state charter, the city raised the tax rate |
city limit city limits | the limits of the area occupied by a city or town |
civic center municipal center down town | the center of a city |
inner city | the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city |
county town shire town | the town or city that is the seat of government for a shire |
new town | a planned urban community created in a rural or undeveloped area and designed to be self-sufficient with its own housing and education and commerce and recreation |