What is center?

More definitions of "center":

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

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

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

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

• (noun): Politically moderate persons; centrists.

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word center:

“The question of whether it’s God’s green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)

“My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.”
—Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929)

“Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)