center – English noun declension

English noun forms of center

Noun: center
Singularcenter
Pluralcenters

Sample Sentences

  • If a point be taken within a circle, and more than two equal straight lines fall from the point on the circle, the point taken is the centre of the circle. [1908, Euclid, translated by Thomas L. Heath, Elements, III.9:]
  • Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below. [2005 June 4, David Adam, The Guardian:]
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  • As far remov'd from God and light of Heav'n
  • As from the Center thrice to th'utmost Pole. [1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 73-75:]
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  • In those Foundations which I build upon,
  • The Centre is not bigge enough to beare
  • A Schoole-Boyes Top. [c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 282, column 2:]
  • The centroid is one of the centres of a triangle
  • There are several centers of a triangle such as its circumcenter, incenter, orthocenter and centroid.
  • shopping center, convention center, civic center, garment center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Rockefeller Center
  • In Anatolia tensions between state officials (ehl-i örf) and the peasants were strained to breaking point.
  • At several places—particularly in the frontier provinces—there were fierce clashes between the janissaries stationed there and the governors. In Aleppo and Damascus incidents were common after 1589: the kuls threw rocks at the beylerbeyi’s house, killed people, broke into the divan several times and took the money prepared by the council for remittance to the centre. [2018, Pál Fodor, The Business of State. Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s–1615) (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker; 28), Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag × De Gruyter, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, page 50:]
  • the center of the controversy
  • the center of attention
  • Bent twice sent efforts wide of the far post after cutting in from the left, Wellbeck missed his kick from an inviting centre and failed to get on the end of a looping pass when six yards out. [2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC:]
  • Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape. [2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
3. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der.
4. Latin centrumder.
5. Middle French centrebor.
6. Middle English center
7. English center
8. 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.
9. * (group theory): In the notation Z(G), the letter Z derives from the German Zentrum (“center”). See: Middle English Nouns 'center', Latin Nouns 'centrum', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κέντρον'.

Verbs referencing "center"

Finnish Nouns sentteri.