- center⇄adj. centerless.
- center⇄adj. of the center; at or comprising the center.
Ex. Italy's unstable center parties saw the shape of things to come (Newsweek).
Also, (especially British,) centre. - center⇄center, noun, verb, adjective.
- center⇄expr. center down, (U.S.) to settle down or concentrate on important matters.
Ex. This collective meditation which Friends like my grandmother called a ""centering down"" was mostly outside our experience (New Yorker). - center⇄noun 1. a point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface.
Ex. The bull's-eye is in the center.
2a. the middle point, place, or part.
Ex. the center of a room, the center of equilibrium. - center⇄v.i. 1a. to gather or collect at a center.
Ex. The guests centered around the table.
(SYN) converge.
b. (Figurative.) to be concentrated in; rest (on).
Ex. All his hopes centered on being promoted.
(SYN) focus.
2. - center⇄v.t. 1. to place in or at the center.
Ex. The object glass of a telescope must be accurately centered.
(SYN) centralize.
2. (Figurative.) to concentrate, focus, rest.
Ex. All his hopes are centered in her.
3. to mark or p