What is center?

More definitions of "center":

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

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

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

• (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 position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the center jump to start 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): A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure.
  Synonyms: centre, midpoint

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

• (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

• (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

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

• (noun): Politically moderate persons; centrists.

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

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

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

• (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): 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

Famous quotes containing the word center:

“New York is what Paris was in the twenties ... the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It’s the greatest place on earth.... I’ve got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)

“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)

“Whenever there’s a big war coming on, you should rope off a big field. And on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put ‘em in the center dressed in their underpants and let them fight it out with clubs. The best country wins.”
—Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)