What is center?

More definitions of "center":

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

• (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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (noun): Politically moderate persons; centrists.

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word center:

“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)

“I think that New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American culture.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)

“I don’t think America’s the center of the world anymore. I think African women will lead the way [in] ... women’s liberation ... The African woman, she’s got a country, she’s got the flag, she’s got her own army, got the navy. She doesn’t have a racism problem. She’s not afraid that if she speaks up, her man will say goodbye to her.”
—Faith Ringgold (b. 1934)