Center

['sɛntɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game.

(noun.) (American football) 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'; 'they ran forward into the heart of the struggle'; 'they were in the eye of the storm'.

(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.

(verb.) move into the center; 'That vase in the picture is not centered'.

(adj.) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually .

(adj.) equally distant from the extremes .

手打:玛吉--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.

(n.) The middle or central portion of anything.

(n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.

(n.) The earth.

(n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

(n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.

(n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.

(n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.

(v. i.) Alt. of Centre

(v. t.) Alt. of Centre

手打:威特

解釋/意思:

See Centre.

錄入:玛丽