(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.
Uptown
Definition:
(adv.) To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.
(a.) Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society.
Example Sentences:
(1) He would spend days and nights hunkered down in his small uptown Dallas apartment pouring through troves of hacked documents, writing blog posts about US government intelligence contractors and their "misplaced power" while working to garner wider media coverage.
(2) Breaking the record for the most streamed track in a single week, Uptown Funk has been listened to nearly 2.34m times in the past seven days, overtaking Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud, which notched up 1.72m streams in a single week in November.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: GUARDIAN Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk Ukip could easily crowbar this into its campaign, albeit with the line “Julio – get the stretch!” altered to include a name more in keeping with the party’s ideologies.
(4) Video of the year and best collaboration: Taylor Swift feat Kendrick Lamar – Bad Blood Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best female video and best pop video: Taylor Swift - Blank Space Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best male video: Mark Ronson feat Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best hip-hop video: Nicki Minaj – Anaconda Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best rock video: Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artist to watch: Trap Queen – Fetty Wap Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best direction: Kendrick Lamar – Alright Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best video with a social message: Big Sean feat Kayne West and John Legend – One Man Can Change The World Facebook Twitter Pinterest
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uptown, Jerry Seinfeld spent the year performing his monthly Homestead show, and reminding everyone why he became the most famous comedian in the world – absolutely nobody does observational comedy better .
(6) A character who, up until now, was allowed to only offer one opinion – on the safety of heading uptown after dark – and was now allowed to express, you know, actual emotions and opinions and ambitions and stuff.
(7) The two labels are very different in character – Preen is urban and slick and worn by Kristen Stewart; Emilia Wickstead is uptown and feminine and worn by the Duchess of Cambridge – so when they both have hit shows that use the same colour combinations, it's a sure bet there's something in the air.
(8) Fleur East is 4-11 favourite to win, according to bookmaker William Hill, after giving an impressive performance last week of the Mark Ronson track Uptown Funk.
(9) Further uptown, at a fire station on 48th Street, firefighters and bereaved families remembered the firefighters of Engine 54, Ladder 4.
(10) MFSB were to Philly what the Funk Brothers were to Motown and Booker T and the MGs were to Stax, only this was a more sophisticated, uptown sort of R&B – a precursor to the symphonic disco of Chic, Earth Wind and Fire and Michael Jackson circa Off the Wall.
(11) Others in the charts include Arctic Monkeys, The War on Drugs, and rock veterans Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, although Mark Ronson also makes the singles top 10 with Uptown Funk.
(12) "I go to unexpected places," says Johnson, who's buzzing around a hotel room in uptown Toronto, hyped up on the rave reviews that have greeted his new film, Looper, which just opened the city's film festival .
(13) In New York, thousands marched from Washington Square Park uptown, via 6th Avenue, before turning downtown to progress along Broadway and to NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza.
(14) I don't know anyone uptown who was ever fasting to begin with.
(15) You have got the talent, you are an incredibly nice guy.” Londoner East sang Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk and earned rave reviews.
(16) It is in Chicago’s Uptown neighbourhood (about 20 minutes from Route 66) and worth the detour.
(17) Even from a distance, guests could be heard rocking out to the Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson dance hit Uptown Funk.
(18) But since the military re-took control in July last year, the battle over Egypt’s economy has tilted in favour of the old regime and its supporters, and the old Cairo 2050 projects are back on track, including the Maspero Triangle and Uptown Cairo.
(19) Haenow, a former van driver from Croydon, triumphed over Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud and Up by Olly Murs featuring Demi Lovato.
(20) Well, first of all, beige cashmere is dull – leave that to the ladies who lunch and shop at Michael Kors in uptown Manhattan.