What is center?

More definitions of "center":

• (noun): The middle of a military or naval formation.
  Example: "They had to reinforce the center"

• (noun): 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.
  Synonyms: plaza, mall, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centre

• (noun): The position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play.
  Example: "It is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback"

• (noun): A cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process.
  Example: "In most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
  Synonyms: centre, nerve center, nerve centre

• (noun): The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.
  Synonyms: kernel, substance, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty

• (verb): Direct one's attention on something.
  Synonyms: concentrate, focus, centre, pore, rivet

• (adj): Of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually.

• (noun): (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team.

• (noun): The position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game.

• (noun): The piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher.
  Example: "He hit the ball to deep center"
  Synonyms: center field

• (noun): (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team.

• (noun): A building dedicated to a particular activity.
  Example: "They were raising money to build a new center for research"
  Synonyms: centre

• (noun): An area that is approximately central within some larger region.
  Example: "It is in the center of town"
  Synonyms: centre, middle, heart, eye

• (noun): A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure.
  Synonyms: centre, midpoint

• (noun): The sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering.
  Synonyms: centre

• (noun): The object upon which interest and attention focuses.
  Example: "His stories made him the center of the party"
  Synonyms: center of attention

• (adj): Equally distant from the extremes.
  Synonyms: halfway, middle, midway

• (noun): A place where some particular activity is concentrated.
  Synonyms: centre

• (verb): Move into the center.
  Synonyms: centre

• (noun): Politically moderate persons; centrists.

• (noun): A position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the center jump to start the game.

• (noun): (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback.
  Example: "The center fumbled the handoff"
  Synonyms: snapper

Famous quotes containing the word center:

“It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes
That all things have their center in their dying....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

“Louise Bryant: I’m sorry if you don’t believe in mutual independence and free love and respect.
Eugene O’Neill: Don’t give me a lot of parlor socialism that you learned in the village. If you were mine, I wouldn’t share you with anybody or anything. It would be just you and me. You’d be at the center of it all. You know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work.”
—Warren Beatty (b. 1937)