What is center?

More definitions of "center":

• (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

• (verb): Center upon.
  Synonyms: focus on, center on, revolve around, revolve about, concentrate on

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

• (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.

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

• (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

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

• (noun): (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey 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 middle of a military or naval formation.
  Example: "They had to reinforce the center"

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

• (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

Famous quotes containing the word center:

“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)

“Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin “helping” them. Such a world does not exist—never has.”
—Gerda Lerner (b. 1920)

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand—a center of gravity.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)