Centers is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CENTERS in dictionary:

VERB (USED WITHOUT OBJECT):
• to be at or come to a center.
• to come to a focus; converge; concentrate (followed by at, about, around, in, or on): The interest of the book centers specifically on the character of the eccentric hero. Political power in the town centers in the position of mayor.
• to gather or accumulate in a cluster; collect (followed by at, about, around, in, or on): Shops and municipal buildings center around the city square.
VERB (USED WITH OBJECT):
• to place in or on a center: She centered the clock on the mantelpiece.
• to collect to or around a center; focus: He centered his novel on the Civil War.
• to determine or mark the center of: A small brass star centered the tabletop.
• to adjust, shape, or modify (an object, part, etc.) so that its axis or the like is in a central or normal position: to center the lens of a telescope; to center the work on a lathe.
• to place (an object, part, etc.) so as to be equidistant from all bordering or adjacent areas.
• snap.
• to pass (a basketball, hockey puck, etc.) from any place along the periphery toward the middle of the playing area.
VERB:
• CENTER, to place at the middle point
NOUN:
• the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
• a point, pivot, axis, etc., around which anything rotates or revolves: The sun is the center of the solar system.
• the source of an influence, action, force, etc.: the center of a problem.
• a point, place, person, etc., upon which interest, emotion, etc., focuses: His family is the center of his life.
• a principal point, place, or object: a shipping center.
• a building or part of a building used as a meeting place for a particular group or having facilities for certain activities: a youth center; The company has a complete recreation center in the basement.
• an office or other facility providing a specific service or dealing with a particular emergency: a flood-relief center; a crisis center.
• a person, thing, group, etc., occupying the middle position, especially a body of troops.
• the core or middle of anything: chocolate candies with fruit centers.
• a store or establishment devoted to a particular subject or hobby, carrying supplies, materials, tools, and books as well as offering guidance and advice: a garden center; a nutrition center.
• shopping center.
• a player who participates in a face-off at the beginning of play.
• center field.
• a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific organic process: the vasomotor center.
I:
• from the centerline or midpoint of a structural member, an area of a plan, etc., to that of a similar member, area, etc.: The studs are set 30 inches on center. Abbreviation: o.c.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to place at the center (the midpoint)

Words related to CENTERS

center8 centered11 centering12

Words that contain CENTERS

decenters12 incenters11 concenters14 epicenters14 subcenters14 hypocenters21 metacenters15 pericenters15 orthocenters17 supercenters16 multicenters16 chromocenters22 circumcenters21

How to use CENTERS in a sentence

• Its little adobe villages, queer and quaint as they seemed to Middle-Western eyes, were centers of established life.
• By the capture of Insterberg the Russians paralyzed one of the main German strategic centers and gained control of an important railroad.
• The usual Negro quarters in northern centers of this sort have been filled up and the overflow of the black population scattered throughout the city among white people.
• The referee called the two centers to the middle of the floor, and then tossed the ball high in the air between them.
• It may be that the successful new centers were merely a few of thousands of attempts in other places.
• As is well known, alcohol acts as a disturbing element upon the nerve centers, even if it has only once been imbibed in excessive quantity.
• This succession of alterations forms a trace behind the obstacle, and in opposition to the line of the centers.
• There are also Peoria Free-Net public-access terminals in numerous area libraries, other government buildings and senior-citizen centers.
• You will observe that all the activity then centers around the diaphragm.
• In the smaller cities the condition of the Italians is in many respects much better than in the great centers, since the tenement evils are escaped.
• The enlightenment of the world of thought comes from these centers of light and sources of mysteries.
• He has been encouraged by the reports reaching him from all centers.
• But the same points are also in the plane passing through the centers of the three spheres, which is the same with the plane of the paper on which the figure is drawn.
• The smaller shops were the centers for the gossip, rumors and discussions which agitated the community.
• The cooeperative stores, both in Great Britain and on the Continent, have continued to develop mainly among the industrial classes in urban centers.
• Then, in time, there must be distributing centers in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
• The chief centers of heavy industry, commerce and finance were in Europe.
• Whether occupied by friend or enemy, towns and cities were centers of actual or potential wealth and power.
• In the centers of civilization public service is a profession, often well paid and usually quite permanent.
• On the contrary, it has established, maintained and consolidated centers of economic interests and activities at the national level.
• They were mounted in the finest possible manner and sent to the principal cities along the road, as well as to the railroad centers of the country.
• As the interest of the first centers in Tony Weston, so that of the second does in Charles Hardy.
• This said residence is, as it were, a nursery and asylum for all the missions and centers of teaching that are under the charge of the aforesaid Society in that province.
• It is easy for women to stock up their lower nerve centers with reflex actions.
• Holes were also drilled into the other boards at their centers.
• In four great centers state building began in Africa.

Similar words containing CENTER without suffix s

center8 centered11 decenter11 incenter10 recenter10 centering12 concenter13 decenters12 epicenter13 incenters11 subcenter13 centerfold16 centerings13 centerless12 centerline12 concenters14 decentered14 epicenters14 hypocenter20 indecenter13 innocenter12 metacenter14 pericenter14 subcenters14 centerboard16 centerfolds17 centerlines13 centerpiece17 concentered16 decentering15 hypocenters21 metacenters15 multicenter15 orthocenter16 pericenters15 supercenter15 centerboards17 centeredness15 centerpieces18 chromocenter21 circumcenter20 concentering17 orthocenters17 supercenters16 decenterings16 multicenters16 chromocenters22 circumcenters21 multicentered18 centerednesses17

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