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Centre

noun

1.

A low-lying region in central France.

2.

An area that is approximately central within some larger region. Synonyms: center, eye, heart, middle. "They ran forward into the heart of the struggle" , "They were in the eye of the storm"

3.

A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure. Synonyms: center, midpoint.

4.

A place where some particular activity is concentrated. Synonym: center.

5.

The sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering. Synonym: center.

6.

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. Synonyms: center, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum. "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"

7.

The object upon which interest and attention focuses. Synonyms: center, center of attention, centre of attention.

8.

A cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process. Synonyms: center, nerve center, nerve centre.

9.

A building dedicated to a particular activity. Synonym: center.

verb

(past & past part. centered or centred; pres. part. centering or centring)

1.

Move into the center. Synonym: center.

2.

Direct one's attention on something. Synonyms: center, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet.

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"Centre" Quotes from Famous Books

... blankets. The place was the office and temporary home of a busy man, a rough board-and-tar-paper habitation that went forward on skids as the camp went forward, the workshop and living-quarters of a director who was stripped down to the hard essentials of toil and whose brain was the nerve centre of a desperate effort by a ...

— The Iron Furrow • George C. Shedd

... dozen new milk cheeses," said Rachel, "and two and one half dozen of four meal. I have marked the four meals with a cross in the centre, so you'll know them from the new milk. There are sixteen greened with sage. They look real pretty. I have put in half a dozen skims; somebody ...

— Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times - 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance • Charles Carleton Coffin

... left behind them the noisy streets of the centre of Paris. They walked along the quays, skirted the Jardin des Plantes, plunged into Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Risler followed where the other led. Sigismond's words did him so ...

— Fromont and Risler, Complete • Alphonse Daudet

... inflamed, circular hole in the centre of its blank face; a hole that resembled more closely nothing that I could think of other than a fresh bullet wound which has not yet ...

— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... might, had been painted by Conway Dalrymple as a Grace. There were, of course, three Graces in the picture, but each Grace was Mrs Dobbs Broughton repeated. We all know how Graces stand sometimes; two Graces looking one way, and one the other. In this picture, Mrs Dobbs Broughton as centre Grace looked you full in the face. The same lady looked away from you, displaying her left shoulder as one side Grace, and displaying her right shoulder as the other Grace. For this pretty toy Mr Conway Dalrymple had picked up a gilt sugar-plum to the tune of six hundred ...

— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope

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