Definition: a building dedicated to a particular activity
Usage: they were raising money to build a new center for research
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Definition: the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
Definition: a place where some particular activity is concentrated
Usage: they received messages from several centers
Main entry: center, centre, midpoint
Definition: a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
Main entry: 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
Main entry: Centre
Definition: a low-lying region in central France
Main entry: focus, concentrate, center, centre, rivet, pore
Definition: direct one's attention on something
Usage: Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies
Definition: move into the center
Usage: That vase in the picture is not centered