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General dictionaries General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. center: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. center: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  3. center: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  4. center, center: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  5. Center, Center, center, center: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. center: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Center, center: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. center: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. center: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. center: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. center: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. center: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Center, center: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. center: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. center: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  16. Center (American and Canadian football), Center (American football), Center (Gridiron football), Center (algebra), Center (band), Center (basketball), Center (category theory), Center (disambiguation), Center (football), Center (geometry), Center (gridiron football), Center (group theory), Center (ice hockey), Center (politics), Center (ring theory), Center, The Center (TV series), The Center, .center: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. center: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  18. Center: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. center: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. center: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. center: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. center: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. center: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. center: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. center: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. Center, center: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. center: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  28. center: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
  29. center, center: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  30. center: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Center: Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Center: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  2. Center (algebra), Center (disambiguation), center: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Center (disambiguation), center: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Center (disambiguation), center: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CENTER: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
  2. CENTER: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. CENTER: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  4. center: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Center: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
  2. Center: National Hurrican Center [home, info]
  3. center, center, center, center, center, center, center, center, center, center, center, center (rings): PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Center: A Seattle Lexicon [home, info]
  2. the center: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Center: Chess Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Center: Sports Terms [home, info]
  3. center, center, center: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
  4. Center: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Center: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. center: DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [home, info]
  3. Center: National Weather Service Glossary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (center)

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 ("It is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback")
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 ("They were raising money to build a new center for research")
noun:  a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process ("In most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere")
noun:  the object upon which interest and attention focuses ("His stories made him the center of the party")
noun:  the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
noun:  politically moderate persons; centrists
noun:  the middle of a military or naval formation ("They had to reinforce the center")
noun:  a place where some particular activity is concentrated ("They received messages from several centers")
noun:  a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
noun:  an area that is approximately central within some larger region ("It is in the center of town")
noun:  (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback ("The center fumbled the handoff")
noun:  (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
noun:  (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
noun:  the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher ("He hit the ball to deep center")
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
noun:  the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
verb:  move into the center ("That vase in the picture is not centered")
verb:  direct one's attention on something
verb:  center upon ("Her entire attention centered on her children")
adjective:  of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #7769)

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Phrases that include center:   center of mass, nerve center, center punch, center stage, center of flotation, more...

Words similar to center:   concentrate, core, centered, centerfield, centering, centerless, centre, essence, eye, focus, gist, halfway, heart, inwardness, kernel, mall, marrow, meat, middle, midpoint, more...


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