centre

[cen·tre]

A low lying region in central France

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See Center.

Noun
a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"

Noun
a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"

Noun
the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering

Noun
a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers"

Noun
a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

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Noun
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"

Noun
a low-lying region in central France

Verb
direct one''s attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

Verb
move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered"


v. i.
To be placed in a center; to be central.

v. i.
To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.

v. t.
To place or fix in the center or on a central point.

v. t.
To collect to a point; to concentrate.

v. t.
To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

n. & v.
See Center.


Centre

Cen"tre , n. & v. See Center.

See Center.

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Usage Examples

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

The Centre is very important to me it's about trust - about truth.

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