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Synonyms for centre
ˈsɑ̃ trəcen·tre
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Princeton's WordNet
Centrenoun
a low-lying region in central France
Synonyms:
nitty-gritty, meat, middle, core, inwardness, sum, midpoint, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, kernel, eye, center of attention, essence, nerve center, nerve centre, heart, centre of attention, marrow, pithcenter, centre, middle, heart, eyenoun
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
"it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"
Synonyms:
affection, warmness, affectionateness, substance, center of attention, center field, philia, plaza, meat, center, tenderness, snapper, core, marrow, sum, fondness, nerve, ticker, nerve center, shopping center, midsection, optic, midriff, kernel, nitty-gritty, spirit, centerfield, gist, warmheartedness, nerve centre, inwardness, centre of attention, pith, heart, shopping mall, bosom, mall, essence, nub, mettle, pump, heart and soul, shopping centre, oculus, spunk, midpoint, eye, middlecenter, centre, midpointnoun
a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
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nitty-gritty, meat, center, middle, core, inwardness, shopping mall, sum, midpoint, centre of attention, shopping centre, gist, heart and soul, shopping center, substance, nub, mall, kernel, eye, center of attention, essence, nerve center, center field, plaza, nerve centre, heart, centerfield, marrow, pith, snappercenter, centrenoun
a place where some particular activity is concentrated
"they received messages from several centers"
Synonyms:
nitty-gritty, meat, center, middle, core, inwardness, shopping mall, sum, midpoint, centre of attention, shopping centre, gist, heart and soul, shopping center, substance, nub, mall, kernel, eye, center of attention, essence, nerve center, center field, plaza, nerve centre, heart, centerfield, marrow, pith, snappercenter, centrenoun
the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
Synonyms:
nitty-gritty, meat, center, middle, core, inwardness, shopping mall, sum, midpoint, centre of attention, shopping centre, gist, heart and soul, shopping center, substance, nub, mall, kernel, eye, center of attention, essence, nerve center, center field, plaza, nerve centre, heart, centerfield, marrow, pith, snapperkernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-grittynoun
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
Synonyms:
affection, summation, warmness, sum of money, sum total, means, affectionateness, substance, center of attention, center field, content, nucleus, plaza, meaning, meat, bone marrow, burden, stub, center, tenderness, snapper, core, totality, marrow, heart and soul, sum, fondness, total, nerve, core group, internality, marrow squash, nerve center, shopping center, aggregate, nub, join, kernel, nitty-gritty, union, spirit, centerfield, gist, warmheartedness, nerve centre, inwardness, centre of attention, pith, heart, shopping mall, nubble, bosom, mall, essence, ticker, message, pump, magnetic core, effect, mettle, shopping centre, perfume, spunk, philia, subject matter, amount of money, midpoint, vegetable marrow, eye, amount, middlecenter, centre, center of attention, centre of attentionnoun
the object upon which interest and attention focuses
"his stories made him the center of the party"
Synonyms:
nitty-gritty, meat, center, middle, core, inwardness, shopping mall, sum, midpoint, centre of attention, shopping centre, gist, heart and soul, shopping center, substance, nub, mall, kernel, eye, center of attention, essence, nerve center, center field, plaza, nerve centre, heart, centerfield, marrow, pith, snappercenter, centre, nerve center, nerve centrenoun
a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
"in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
Synonyms:
nitty-gritty, meat, center, middle, core, inwardness, shopping mall, sum, midpoint, centre of attention, shopping centre, gist, heart and soul, shopping center, substance, nub, mall, kernel, eye, center of attention, essence, nerve center, center field, plaza, nerve centre, heart, centerfield, marrow, pith, snappercenter, centreverb
a building dedicated to a particular activity
"they were raising money to build a new center for research"
Synonyms:
nitty-gritty, meat, center, middle, core, inwardness, shopping mall, sum, midpoint, centre of attention, shopping centre, gist, heart and soul, shopping center, substance, nub, mall, kernel, eye, center of attention, essence, nerve center, center field, plaza, nerve centre, heart, centerfield, marrow, pith, snappercenter, centreverb
move into the center
"That vase in the picture is not centered"
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center, rivet, concentrate, concentrate on, focus on, pore, center on, focus, revolve around, revolve aboutconcentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivetverb
direct one's attention on something
"Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
Synonyms:
decoct, center on, concentrate on, focus, concentrate, sharpen, centralise, focus on, concenter, contract, digest, revolve around, condense, focalise, center, boil down, focalize, revolve about, reduce, rivet, pore, concentre, centralize
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Editors Contribution
centroid
in the middle of something, or where when you would fold it in half horizontally and vertically and then unfold the centre will pop out or in
that's not the centre
Dictionary of English Synonymes
centrenoun
Synonyms:
[Written also Center.] middle, midst, middle point
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
centre
Synonyms:
See Center
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#149 | message | |
#216 | center | |
#315 | total | |
#395 | content | |
#438 | point | |
#439 | join | |
#602 | status | |
#686 | central | |
#754 | means | |
#824 | centre | |
#870 | amount | |
#889 | heart | |
#1071 | effect | |
#1106 | union | |
#1141 | middle | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1230 | focus | |
#1566 | eye | |
#1617 | core | |
#1865 | facility | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2181 | spirit | |
#2264 | centers | |
#2764 | meaning | |
#3505 | kernel | |
#3601 | sum | |
#3877 | pump | |
#4041 | meat | |
#4308 | substance | |
#4518 | mall | |
#4562 | digest | |
#4733 | plaza | |
#4839 | centres | |
#5666 | hub | |
#5696 | perfume | |
#6303 | burden | |
#7024 | aggregate | |
#7091 | irc | |
#7805 | essence | |
#8377 | nerve | |
#9081 | focal | |
#9196 | concentrate | |
#10691 | optic | |
#11692 | observatory | |
#12085 | nucleus | |
#12558 | ticker | |
#14560 | marrow | |
#15557 | centro | |
#15988 | affection | |
#16651 | stub | |
#16735 | clearinghouse | |
#16758 | itc | |
#22682 | pore | |
#26713 | tenderness | |
#27827 | snapper | |
#29421 | centrum | |
#30236 | summation | |
#30449 | sharpen | |
#32051 | bosom | |
#32803 | gist | |
#33888 | totality | |
#34909 | rivet | |
#37398 | midpoint | |
#44610 | spunk | |
#48084 | fondness | |
#52804 | zentrum | |
#60459 | condense | |
#64681 | centralize | |
#65586 | mettle | |
#69995 | pith | |
#70251 | nub | |
#71898 | centerfield | |
#80579 | centrepiece | |
#99790 | midsection | |
#106597 | midriff | |
#131859 | oculus | |
#158813 | capsa | |
#164247 | centralise | |
#194780 | philia | |
#244606 | inwardness | |
#307964 | nubble | |
#315244 | warmness | |
#320415 | gichd |
How to use centre in a sentence?
A successor will create another centre of power, which is what Mugabe has been fighting by dismantling Mujuru's pillars of support, mugabe may give an impression that those appointed stand a good chance of succeeding him, but he is consolidating and will remain the centre of gravity in the party and state.
I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown.
We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again.
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the centre.
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