All center synonyms
cenΒ·ter
C c verb center
- concentrate β If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
- meet β greatest lower bound
- attract β If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
- gather β to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- intensify β to make intense or more intense.
- consolidate β If you consolidate something that you have, for example power or success, you strengthen it so that it becomes more effective or secure.
noun center
- heart β Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- place β a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- hub β the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.
- town β Ithiel [ith-ee-uh l] /ΛΙͺΞΈ i Ιl/ (Show IPA), 1784β1844, U.S. architect.
- city β The City is the part of London where many important financial institutions have their main offices. People often refer to these financial institutions as the City.
- shopping center β a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
- plaza β a public square or open space in a city or town.
- club β A club is an organization of people interested in a particular activity or subject who usually meet on a regular basis.
- mall β Also called shopping mall. a large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants and other business establishments housed in a series of connected or adjacent buildings or in a single large building. Compare shopping center.
- station β a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- capital β Capital is a large sum of money which you use to start a business, or which you invest in order to make more money.
- market β an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- kernel β the softer, usually edible part contained in the shell of a nut or the stone of a fruit.
- focus β a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- seat β something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- pivot β a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
- midst β the position of anything surrounded by other things or parts, or occurring in the middle of a period of time, course of action, etc. (usually preceded by the): a familiar face in the midst of the crowd; in the midst of the performance.
- axis β An axis is an imaginary line through the middle of something.
- interior β being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house.
- core β The core of a fruit is the central part of it. It contains seeds or pips.
- gist β the main or essential part of a matter: What was the gist of his speech?
- midpoint β a point at or near the middle of, or equidistant from, both ends, as of a line: the midpoint of a boundary.
- nucleus β a central part about which other parts are grouped or gathered; core: A few faithful friends formed the nucleus of the club.
- marrow β a partner; fellow worker.
- mainstream β the principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend: the mainstream of American culture.
- inside β on the inner side or part of; within: inside the circle; inside the envelope.
- pith β Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- quick β done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- root β Elihu [el-uh-hyoo] /ΛΙl ΙΛhyu/ (Show IPA), 1845β1937, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1912.
- nave β the principal longitudinal area of a church, extending from the main entrance or narthex to the chancel, usually flanked by aisles of less height and breadth: generally used only by the congregation.
- omphalos β the navel; umbilicus.
- polestar β Polaris.
- centrality β the state or condition of being central
- hotbed β a bottomless, boxlike, usually glass-covered structure and the bed of earth it covers, heated typically by fermenting manure or electrical cables, for growing plants out of season.
- cynosure β a person or thing that attracts notice, esp because of its brilliance or beauty
- centrum β the main part or body of a vertebra
- navel β umbilicus (def 1).
- centriole β either of two rodlike bodies in most animal cells that form the poles of the spindle during mitosis
- bull's-eye β The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
- marketplace β an open area in a town where a market is held.
- metropolis β any large, busy city.
- mart β a cow or ox fattened for slaughter.
- concourse β A concourse is a wide hall in a public building, for example a hotel, airport, or station.
- crossroads β A crossroads is a place where two roads meet and cross each other.