(n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
(n.) The middle or central portion of anything.
(n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.
(n.) The earth.
(n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.
(n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
(n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
(n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
(v. i.) Alt. of Centre
(v. t.) Alt. of Centre
Example Sentences:
(1) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(2) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(3) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(4) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(5) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
(6) By using these methods, it was clearly indicated that these factors such as TDF of rectum, Z-coordinate of weighted geometric center (WGC-Z), the dose of whole pelvic irradiation, history of chemotherapy and Treponema pallidum hemoagglutination test (TPHA) were important for occurrence of rectal complication.
(7) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(8) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(9) T cells admixed in the germinal centers were overwhelmingly of the T-helper type.
(10) Changing conditions call for each Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) to develop a survival strategy based on its own standards and values.
(11) Of the 385 records reviewed for this study, the majority (87%) received their primary care at community health centers or the hospital's own outpatient clinics.
(12) Radiologic abnormalities included an unusual "moth-eaten" appearance of the markedly short long bones, bizzare ectopic ossification centers, and marked platyspondyly with unusual ossification centers.
(13) The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a temporal association between the introduction of a Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Center and changes in fetal mortality.
(14) The lack of TBM prior to germinal center development and their absence in aged mice are inconsistent with the concept that TBM are required for the induction of the germinal center reaction.
(15) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
(16) In contrast, Sca-2 did not appear to stain peripheral T lymphocytes, but recognized only a subset of B lymphocytes which could be localized by immunohistochemistry to germinal centers.
(17) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
(18) Patient care data for patients treated at the medical center are first recorded on paper charts and then coded and transferred to computer.
(19) Intrinsic bending of the 527-bp fragment (bend center approximately at bp 240) was represented as a composite of at least two components located near bp 170 and near bp 260.
(20) The shading of the optoelectronic system had a coefficient of variation (CV) of 1.42% for measurements in the center of the displayed area, but a CV of 3.55% for measurements over the whole monitor area.
Renter
Definition:
(n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
(v. t.) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
(v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
(2) There is no evidence that buying a house means you personallly lose your job a couple of years down the line, which suggests Britons will not easily be turned on by the idea of becoming a nation of renters.
(3) The paradox is that while Fergus and Judith Wilson can evict 200 benefit-receiving tenants in their Kent buy-to-let empire, confident they will be replaced by working renters, many from eastern Europe, in other places landlords are heavily reliant on benefits.
(4) The group, which campaigns for more affordable housing, used the English Housing Survey's income profile of private renters, and the Office for National Statistics' latest house price index, to work out how many people could afford the average first home, based on the assumption that a home is affordable if it is no more than four times household income.
(5) Other politicians think all housing problems can be tackled by simply building more houses, but Corbyn has recognised that this alone won’t give private renters the rights they need.” Both Corbyn and Healey made clear that housing is the biggest problem facing the UK, and committed to policies that many in the housing sector have been long argued for.
(6) Private renters account for more than 20% of the housing market; in 1985 the figure was 9% .
(7) A lack of rights for private renters puts them at risk of sudden eviction, even if they are up to date with the rent.
(8) In 2002, 100,000 private renters in London were forced to claim housing benefit in order to pay the rent; by the end of the New Labour era, rising rents had increased the number to 250,000.
(9) The Resolution Foundation thinktank has warned that the under-35s are becoming permanent renters , with home ownership reserved for the well-off and elderly.
(10) In the rest of Europe, Berlin still enjoys a reputation as a renters' paradise.
(11) We need to bring an end to these extortionate prices and give people real choices, by building the homes this nation needs.” UK tenants pay more rent than any country in Europe Read more Roger Harding for the housing charity Shelter said private renters “are bearing the brunt of our dramatic housing shortage”.
(12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
(13) Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes, told Guardian Australia.
(14) The rise of the landlord-lodger arrangement could help utilise the estimated 15 million unused bedrooms in England alone, giving renters more options and helping squeezed families and retirees cope with the higher cost of living.
(15) Families in the UK pay an average £6,760 a year in housing costs alone, with mortgaged homeowners paying £7,436 compared to £8,320 for private renters, according to the 2010-11 English Housing Survey.
(16) Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, said: “As home ownership gets increasingly out of reach, ever more people will find themselves as permanent renters throughout their lives.
(17) For those of us who want a fairer deal for renters, this feels a lot like Groundhog Day – with the joke very much on us.
(18) Britain has up to 11 million private renters, often being charged rip-off rents and deprived of basic housing security.
(19) Ministers say the change tackles an unfair spare room subsidy not available to private-sector renters and suggest it will save around £500m a year as part of the government's deficit-reduction strategy.
(20) Banning upfront letting agency fees Facebook Twitter Pinterest To Let Signs on New Housing, houses, homes, houses for rent Photograph: Alamy Widely trailed as a plan to help “just about managing’ familes, the government’s plan to ban spiralling letting agency fees will benefit renters if it is introduced as planned.