The line of cars stretched all the way from the expressway to the city centre.
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The other day a water quality inspection was carried out at our house. We had it down by a certain famous company's Environment Analysis Centre or some such name.
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I had expected stronger resistance from the enemy but if anything there are less of them as we advance to the centre... Don't you think that's strange?
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A desk stood in the centre, with a red-leather swivel-chair.
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This blog covers topics that centre on information infrastructure.
English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (8 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Center \Cen"ter\, Centre \Cen"tre\ v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Centered} or {Centred} (s[e^]n"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Centering} or {Centring}.]
1. To be placed in a center; to be central.
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2. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest
on, or gather about, as a center.
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Where there is no visible truth wherein to center,
error is as wide as men's fancies. --Dr. H. More.
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Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster] Center
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Center \Cen"ter\, Centre \Cen"tre\, v. t.
1. To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
--Milton.
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2. To collect to a point; to concentrate.
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Thy joys are centered all in me alone. --Prior.
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3. (Mech.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception
of a center.
[1913 Webster] Centerbit
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
centre \cen"tre\, n. & v.
See {Center}. [chiefly British]
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Centre
n 1: a low-lying region in central France
2: 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" [syn: {center}, {centre}, {middle}, {heart}, {eye}]
3: a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the
extremities of a figure [syn: {center}, {centre}, {midpoint}]
4: a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they
received messages from several centers" [syn: {center},
{centre}]
5: the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is
enclosed in chocolate or some other covering [syn: {center},
{centre}]
6: 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" [syn: {kernel}, {substance}, {core}, {center},
{centre}, {essence}, {gist}, {heart}, {heart and soul},
{inwardness}, {marrow}, {meat}, {nub}, {pith}, {sum}, {nitty-
gritty}]
7: the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his
stories made him the center of the party" [syn: {center},
{centre}, {center of attention}, {centre of attention}]
8: a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process;
"in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
[syn: {center}, {centre}, {nerve center}, {nerve centre}]
9: a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were
raising money to build a new center for research" [syn:
{center}, {centre}]
v 1: move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not
centered" [syn: {center}, {centre}]
2: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your
studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: {concentrate},
{focus}, {center}, {centre}, {pore}, {rivet}]
From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:
centre [sentər]
Mitte; Mittelpunkt [math.]; Mittelstück
From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:
centreBrit [sentərbər]
Mitte; Mittelpunkt; Zentrum
From English-French Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-fra]:
centre [sentər]
centre
From French-English Freedict dictionary [fd-fra-eng]:
centre [sãtr]
centre
core; nucleus; kernel; pit
average; mean; middle