Synonyms: center
Definition: a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
Similar words: position
Definition: (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
Usage: what position does he play?
Synonyms: center
Definition: (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play
Usage: it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback
Similar words: lineman
Definition: (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage
Synonyms: center
Definition: the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
Similar words: position
Definition: (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
Usage: what position does he play?
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: center, center field, centerfield
Definition: the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
Usage: he hit the ball to deep center
Similar words: piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel, parcel of land
Definition: an extended area of land
Synonyms: mall, center, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall
Definition: 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
Usage: a good plaza should have a movie house; they spent their weekends at the local malls
Similar words: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outlet
Definition: a place of business for retailing goods
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
Synonyms: center
Definition: politically moderate persons; centrists
Similar words: social class, socio-economic class, class, stratum
Definition: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
Usage: the working class; an emerging professional class
Synonyms: center
Definition: the middle of a military or naval formation
Usage: they had to reinforce the center
Similar words: formation
Definition: an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
Usage: a defensive formation; a formation of planes
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
Definition: (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
Usage: the center fumbled the handoff
Similar words: lineman
Definition: one of the players on the line of scrimmage
Synonyms: center
Definition: (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
Similar words: basketball player, basketeer, cager
Definition: an athlete who plays basketball
Synonyms: center
Definition: (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
Similar words: hockey player, ice-hockey player
Definition: an athlete who plays hockey
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
Synonyms: revolve about, revolve around, concentrate on, focus on, center, center on
Definition: center upon
Usage: Her entire attention centered on her children; Our day revolved around our work
Similar words: concern, bear on, come to, refer, relate, touch, touch on, have-to doe with, pertain
Definition: be relevant to
Usage: There were lots of questions referring to her talk; My remark pertained to your earlier comments
Synonyms: center, middle, midway, halfway
Definition: equally distant from the extremes
Similar words: central
Definition: in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area
Usage: a central position
Synonyms: center
Definition: of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
Similar words: centrist, middle-of-the-road
Definition: supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative