Definition of Centre

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Centre

To be placed in a center; to be central.

To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.

To place or fix in the center or on a central point.

To collect to a point; to concentrate.

To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

See Center.

Alt. of seal

Alt. of punch

Related Definitions:

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Centre Quotations

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George Eliot

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
Peter Singer

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.
Cheech Marin

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
Timothy Radcliffe

We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.
David Pleat

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
Gabriela Sabatini

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
Harold Pinter

Centre Translations

centre in Dutch is binnenste, centrum, middelpunt
centre in Finnish is keskus
centre in French is centre
centre in Portuguese is centro
centre in Spanish is centro
centre in Swedish is medelpunkt, centrum, center, centrera

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