centre

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But they have picked the wrong target - Top Gear is at the heart and centre of Auto culture worldwide.

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Quick take

a low-lying region in central France

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of centre gathered in one view.

noun

a low-lying region in central France

noun

an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"

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a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for centre.

noun

a low-lying region in central France

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an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"

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a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

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a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers"

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the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering

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the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"

See also: kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, inwardness

noun

the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party"

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a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"

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a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"

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verb

move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered"

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verb

direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

See also: concentrate, focus, center, pore, rivet

Example sentences

But they have picked the wrong target - Top Gear is at the heart and centre of Auto culture worldwide.

Kids are the centre of their worlds and don't really understand how to be anything else.

# # Each entry consists of three parts: # # length: the length in a straight line between the ends of the piece # at its centre.

A quiet car park in the centre of town may have a lot of pedestrians walking through it at 2am going back from clubs.

A single data centre is always susceptible to outages like this, it doesn't matter who owns it.

If any of those sites had owned a single data centre that was hit by storm damage, the impact would be the same.

It keeps happening, and I keep wondering why any thinking person would trust plain old data centre security staff with their money like this.

From what I've read, Adria is someone who is looking to be the centre of attention in a big drama and she got exactly what she was looking for.

Healthcare in EU countries is seen as the recurring cost of keeping the citizens healthy, and hence healthcare is managed as a cost centre and not a profit centre.

I suspect the one area where this will impact the most is customer service; Google is traditionally horrible because they're loathe to waste money on minimum wage call-centre employees to support loss-leader products.

There's a lot to be said for that when you're a neolithic hunter-gatherer or an iron-age peasant -- if you try something new and it fails, you maybe get to watch your family starve next spring -- but it's a bit less useful as a rule of thumb in the data centre.

This echoes comments I've heard from foreigners from France, New York, China, and elsewhere.-----Some of these things have changed a bit, especially with the changing outlook of top politicians, the livening up of the city centre, and the loosening of old bureaucratic rules.

I also believe SpaceX runs a largely virtualised command centre.>Self-driving cars...every single innovation in the car industry that does not go towards electric self driving cars is just useless fluff at this pointImagine a bond that pays, into perpetuity, 100% of the profits earned by auto manufacturers worldwide on non-self-driving cars.