What's the difference between centerpiece and centrepiece?
Centerpiece
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Centrepiece
Example Sentences:
(1) Donald Trump has made his outlandish policy of forcing Mexico to pay for his giant wall the centerpiece of his campaign,” said Podesta.
(2) Iraqi units, described by commanding general Lloyd Austin as the centerpiece of the war for the moment , are not ready to wrest Mosul or other significant territory from Isis .
(3) Photograph: Pasona Group At the Tokyo headquarters of the Pasona Group , a staffing company, tomatoes dangle from the ceiling, herbs grow fragrantly in meeting rooms and a rice paddy is the lobby centerpiece.
(4) The centerpiece for 2013 will be the huge new MuCEM (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations), opening in June.
(5) Coincidentally, Waterston also starred in last year’s centerpiece film, Inherent Vice.
(6) Double-sector aluminium centerpieces are modified for use in analytical high-speed band centrifugation up to 60,000 rpm.
(7) These findings are in keeping with the notion that TNF alpha, possibly of intraovarian (e.g., macrophage or granulosa cell) origin, may comprise the centerpiece of a regulatory loop designed to attenuate gonadotropin hormonal action.
(8) In most but not in all cases the use of stacked double-sector centerpieces is required.
(9) Current evidence favors the hypothesis that granulosa cell-derived basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) may be the centerpiece of an intraovarian autocrine loop.
(10) It capped a celebration of Pelé started by the presentation of an honorary degree by Hofstra University this weekend — itself the centerpiece of one of the largest soccer conferences ever held in the USA, 'Soccer as the Beautiful Game: Football’s Artistry, Identity and Politics' featuring over 100 speakers from around the world, including the likes of David Goldblatt ('The Ball is Round') and an intriguing proposition from Dr Jennifer Doyle, of the University of California, Riverside: 'Imagining a World Without a World Cup: An Abolitionist Perspective'.
(11) Since ceruloplasmin is the centerpiece of copper metabolism and function, we conclude with more details on its chemistry and multifunctions.
(12) The centerpiece of molecular genetics is the possibility to map and determine the fine structure of human genes and to define in molecular terms how each gene controls all the enzymes of energy metabolism, structural proteins of cells, the membrane proteins, including transport proteins and receptors, the plasma proteins and those proteins which participate in the synthesis of complex lipids, carbohydrates, lipoproteins and glycoproteins.
(13) A special operations advocacy group, Special Operations-Opsec, is criticizing President Barack Obama over alleged leaks and the making of the raid the national security centerpiece of his re-election campaign.
(14) Carbon pollution on the table Top of the energy industry executives’ minds will be the EPA rules which will for the first time limit carbon pollution from power plants and are the centerpiece of Barack Obama’s climate change agenda.
(15) Whereas the senator had made foreign policy a centerpiece of his campaign, with polling showing national security as a top concern among Republican primary voters, the electorate was not drawn to his detailed descriptions of Vladimir Putin’s aggression in the Middle East or of China’s military expansion.
(16) This paper presents methods used to develop a conceptual model for a patient database forming the centerpiece of a clinical information system under development.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest During the primaries, Donald Trump called for a complete ban on Muslims entering the US Trump made a threat to ban all Muslims entering the US a centerpiece of his presidential campaign.
(18) If an employment-based approach is to be the centerpiece of a system that provides universal coverage, special attention must be paid to all the categories of individuals who are not employees--children, unemployed spouses or singles, the unemployable ill and disabled, persons between jobs, students, retirees, the elderly.
(19) These observations along with the demonstration of the gonadotropin-dependent preovulatory induction of ovarian IL-1 beta gene expression provide strong support for the view that IL-1 may be the centerpiece of an intraovarian regulatory loop concerned with the promotion of the preovulatory cascade.
(20) Private health insurance, primarily employment-based, is the "centerpiece of the payment system" for health care in the United States.
Centrepiece
Definition:
(n.) An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The chancellor said the 2.5% cut in VAT to 15% would last for 13 months and form the centrepiece of a recovery programme which will pump £9.2bn into the economy in 2008 and a further £16.3bn in 2009-10.
(2) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
(3) With them he performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006, a revue show with Bird playing Tim Henman its centrepiece.
(4) Trump is an isolationist so the Chinese are going to see that as an opportunity to keep strengthening their position and their role in the region.” Delury said Trump was also likely to ditch the highly contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which under Obama had been “a centrepiece of an American resurgence of its role in Asia”.
(5) Defoe and Bradley were the centrepieces of a major offseason makeover by Toronto that also included the acquisition of Brazilian goalkeeper Júlio César on loan.
(6) An extra £5bn of capital investment, funded by spending cuts elsewhere, will form the centrepiece of an overall £30bn national infrastructure programme due to be announced by George Osborne on Tuesday as part of an attempt to prevent the country from sliding back into recession.
(7) The right not to be imprisoned without a fair trial has become the centrepiece of respect for the rule of law all around the world, and yet, when Ms Lynch stated at Runnymede that the fundamental principles of the Magna Carta have “given hopes to those who face oppression” and have “given a voice to those yearning for the redress of wrongs,” it was impossible not to think of Shaker Aamer, and others in Guantánamo, also “yearning for the redress of wrongs,” but finding that yearning repeatedly unfulfilled.
(8) Its centrepiece – tax cuts for small and middle-size businesses that gradually spread out to big businesses over the years – will delight the corporate world.
(9) Hunger and nutrition are the centrepiece of the IF campaign, launched in January by a coalition of 100 UK NGOs and faith groups, to lobby David Cameron, the prime minister, to use Britain's presidency of the G8 to push for an end to hunger.
(10) For one so self-conscious in his career choices, he's remarkably unself-regarding to talk to; almost as rackety and frank as Freddie Quell, his character in Paul Thomas Anderson's film – our movie of the year, of which his performance is the centrepiece.
(11) Ministers have described the bill, the centrepiece of claims to be "the greenest government ever ", as likely to generate £110bn in investment in low-carbon and efficient energy infrastructure in the UK in the biggest shakeup of the market since privatisation in the 1980s.
(12) The proposal – an unabashed extension of the flagship Thatcherite right-to-buy policy – was a centrepiece of the Tory general election manifesto.
(13) The centrepiece of the summer budget was the introduction of a national living wage — a sharp increase in the statutory minimum wage for over-25s, from the £6.70 an hour rate that will apply from next month to £7.20 in January and 40% of the median wage by 2020 — expected to be more than £9.
(14) The centrepiece of health secretary Andrew Lansley's plan to reform the NHS is to transfer power to GP-led consortiums that will commission hospital and community care.
(15) Zaha Hadid, best known in the UK for the London 2012 Aquatics Centre , the architectural centrepiece of the summer games, has taken first place in a competition to design the new Tokyo National Stadium.
(16) Electricity generated from coal in old power plants without carbon capture would be banned in a proposal that will form the centrepiece of the Liberal Democrats' commitment on the environment in its general election manifesto.
(17) With all the original timbers fitted into a steel frame that will recreate its full length and form, the ship will be the centrepiece of Viking, an exhibition opening at the Danish national museum in June , before being transported to London to launch the British Museum's new exhibition space in 2014 .
(18) The centrepiece of the legislation gives ministers a veto over any move to change the articles of association of the bank, including the five governing principles that require it to fulfil a green remit.
(19) In what is seen as a centrepiece of Labour's public service reforms, the manifesto promises a big expansion in the use of takeovers and school mergers to help drive up standards.
(20) The issue of falling commodities has replaced Greece and Chinese equity volatility as the centrepiece of the capital markets.