centre
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English center, centre, from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.tə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.tɚ/, [ˈsɛ.ɾ̃ɚ]
Audio (US): (file) - (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping) IPA(key): [ˈsɪɾ̃ɚ]
- Hyphenation: cen‧tre
- Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
- Homophone: sinner (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping)
- Homophone: center
Noun
[edit]centre (plural centres)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Alternative spelling of center.
- (middle portion) 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
- So after a short spell in the brass foundry the wisest course was to follow with a similar period in the steel foundry, where much important work was done, including the manufacture of centres for wheels.
- 2018, Balázs Áron Kovács, Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins, Springer, →ISBN, page 280:
- The phrase 'Imperial Manila' is used throughout the archipelago to denote the capital-heavy decision-making and the imposition of the will and culture of the political and economic centre on the peripheries.
- (middle portion)
Derived terms
[edit]- acentrous
- barycentre
- biocentre
- Catapult centre
- centrebit
- centreboard
- Centre County
- centredness
- centrefield
- centrefold
- centre forward
- centreground
- centre-left
- centreline
- Centrelink
- centreman
- centremost
- centre of attention
- centre of buoyancy
- centre of curvature
- centre of effort
- centre of gravity
- centre of inertia
- centre of lift
- centre of mass
- centrepiece
- centrepin
- centrepunch
- centre-right
- centreright
- centre stage
- Centreville
- centreward
- centrish
- centrism
- centroid
- chromocentre
- civic centre
- concentre
- daycare centre
- day centre
- decentre
- ecocentre
- epicentre
- friendship centre
- garden centre
- hypocentre
- isocentre
- Jobcentre
- megacentre
- metacentre
- metallocentre
- Middlesex Centre
- multi-centre
- Nickel Centre
- oculocentre
- orthocentre
- pericentre
- photocentre
- playcentre
- reception centre
- Rockville Centre
- stereocentre
- supercentre
- telecentre
- Thames Centre
- uncentre
Translations
[edit]center — see center
A position in Rugby football in the back line
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Verb
[edit]centre (third-person singular simple present centres, present participle centring or centreing, simple past and past participle centred)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of center
- 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: The "Midland Pullman"”, in Modern Railways, page 77:
- One controversy which has not had an airing in discussion of the new Transport Bill is that centring on the status of the Pullman Car Co.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]center — see center
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]centre m (plural centres)
- center (point in the interior of a circle)
- center (middle portion of something)
- center (place where some function or activity occurs)
- center (topic that is particularly important)
- downtown (business center of a city)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “centre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “centre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “centre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “centre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Esperanto
[edit]Adverb
[edit]centre
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]centre m (plural centres)
- centre, center
- (soccer) cross, specifically one directed into the penalty area
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “centre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Lithuanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]centrè
Noun
[edit]ceñtre
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]centre
- inflection of centrar:
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]centre
- inflection of centrar:
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