What is center?

More definitions of "center":

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

• (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): 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"

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

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

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

• (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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (noun): Politically moderate persons; centrists.

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

• (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): The sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering.
  Synonyms: centre

Famous quotes containing the word center:

“Louise Bryant: I’m sorry if you don’t believe in mutual independence and free love and respect.
Eugene O’Neill: Don’t give me a lot of parlor socialism that you learned in the village. If you were mine, I wouldn’t share you with anybody or anything. It would be just you and me. You’d be at the center of it all. You know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work.”
—Warren Beatty (b. 1937)

“Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)

“Actually being married seemed so crowded with unspoken rules and odd secrets and unfathomable responsibilities that it had no more occurred to her to imagine being married herself than it had to imagine driving a motorcycle or having a job. She had, however, thought about being a bride, which had more to do with being the center of attention and looking inexplicably, temporarily beautiful than it did with sharing a double bed with someone with hairy legs and a drawer full of boxer shorts.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)