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(satellite adjective) equally distant from the extremes |
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Synonyms: halfway, middle, midway |
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(noun) a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the center jump to start the game |
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Related Words: position |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: lineman |
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(noun) the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game |
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Related Words: position |
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(verb) move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered" |
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Synonyms: centre |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually |
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Antonyms: left, right |
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(noun) a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research" |
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Synonyms: centre |
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Related Words: building, burn center, civic center, community center, conference center, conference house, control center, edifice, research center, service club, student center |
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(noun) a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere" |
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Synonyms: centre, nerve center, nerve centre |
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Related Words: Broca's area, Broca's center, Wernicke's area, Wernicke's center, auditory center, neural structure, respiratory center |
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(noun) the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party" |
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Synonyms: center of attention |
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Related Words: conversation piece, cynosure, object |
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(noun) politically moderate persons; centrists |
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Related Words: class, social class, socio-economic class |
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(noun) the middle of a military or naval formation; "they had to reinforce the center" |
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Related Words: formation |
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(noun) a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers" |
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Synonyms: centre |
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Related Words: place, property |
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(noun) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure |
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Synonyms: centre, midpoint |
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Related Words: bight, bowels, bull, bull's eye, center of curvature, center of gravity, center of mass, centre of curvature, centre of gravity, centroid, core, navel, navel point, nombril, nucleus, point, storm center, storm centre |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: centre, eye, heart, middle |
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Related Words: area, central city, city center, civic center, country, down town, financial center, hub, inner city, medical center, midfield, midstream, municipal center, see |
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(noun) (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage; "the center fumbled the handoff" |
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Related Words: lineman |
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(noun) (basketball) the person who plays center |
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Related Words: basketball player, basketeer, cager |
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(noun) (ice_hockey) the person who plays center |
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Related Words: hockey player |
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(noun) the part of the outfield directly ahead of the catcher; "he hit the ball to deep center" |
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Synonyms: centerfield |
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Related Words: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract |
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(verb) focus one's attention on something |
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Synonyms: centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
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Related Words: absorb, cerebrate, cogitate, engross, engulf, hear, immerse, listen, plunge, recall, steep, take heed, think, think, zoom in |
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(noun) a modern complex of shops; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls" |
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Synonyms: mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping mall |
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Related Words: mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet |
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(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the nub of the story" |
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Synonyms: core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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Related Words: cognitive content, content, hypostasis, mental object, quintessence, stuff |
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(verb) center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" |
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Synonyms: center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
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Related Words: bear on, come to, concern, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
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