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/sˈɛntər/ Listen

noun

centre n., v. See Center. (chiefly British)

verb

Centre, Center v. t.

To place or fix in the center or on a central point.

To collect to a point; to concentrate. "Thy joys are centered all in me alone."

(Mech.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

Centre, Center v. i. (past & past part. centered or centred; pres. part. centering or centring)

To be placed in a center; to be central.

To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. "Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies." "Our hopes must center in ourselves alone."

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Etymology of 'Centre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... 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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