Definition: a building dedicated to a particular activity
Usage: they were raising money to build a new center for research
Similar words: building, edifice
Definition: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
Usage: there was a three-story building on the corner; it was an imposing edifice
Synonyms: nerve center, nerve centre, centre, center
Definition: a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
Usage: in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere
Similar words: neural structure
Definition: a structure that is part of the nervous system
Synonyms: center, center of attention, centre, centre of attention
Definition: the object upon which interest and attention focuses
Usage: his stories made him the center of the party
Similar words: object
Definition: the focus of cognitions or feelings
Usage: objects of thought; the object of my affection
Synonyms: gist, heart, heart and soul, nub, nitty-gritty, essence, core, centre, center, pith, meat, inwardness, kernel, marrow, substance, sum
Definition: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Usage: the gist of the prosecutor's argument; the heart and soul of the Republican Party; the nub of the story
Similar words: mental object, content, cognitive content
Definition: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
Definition: the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
Similar words: confection, sweet
Definition: a food rich in sugar
Definition: a place where some particular activity is concentrated
Usage: they received messages from several centers
Similar words: property, place
Definition: any area set aside for a particular purpose
Usage: who owns this place?; the president was concerned about the property across from the White House
Synonyms: center, centre, midpoint
Definition: a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
Similar words: point
Definition: the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
Usage: she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street
Synonyms: eye, heart, centre, center, middle
Definition: an area that is approximately central within some larger region
Usage: it is in the center of town; they ran forward into the heart of the struggle; they were in the eye of the storm
Definition: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
Usage: it was a mountainous area; Bible country
Synonyms: Centre
Definition: a low-lying region in central France
Similar words: French region
Definition: a geographical subdivision of France
Synonyms: focus, concentrate, center, centre, rivet, pore
Definition: direct one's attention on something
Usage: Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies
Similar words: think, cogitate, cerebrate
Definition: use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
Usage: I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere
Definition: move into the center
Usage: That vase in the picture is not centered
Definition: cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
Usage: Move those boxes into the corner, please; I'm moving my money to another bank; The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant