centre

/ˈsɛntə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈsɛntə/

centre

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> centre

Full entry

centre (US center ) /'sentǝ(r)/ n

၁။ [C] အလယ်။ ဗဟို။
the centre of a circle ❍ the centre of London ❍ a town/city centre ❍ chocolates with soft centres.
၂။ [C] အများ အာရုံစိုက်ရာ။
Children like to be the centre of attention. ❍ The Prime Minister is at the centre of a political row over leaked Cabinet documents.
၃။ [C] အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးဗဟို။
a centre of power ❍ Washington DC is a centre of government.
၄။ [C] စုဝေးရာ။ a centre of industry/ commerce/ the steel trade ❍ a shopping/sports/leisure/community centre.
၅။ (esp the centre ) [sing] လက်ဝဲစွန်း လက်ယာစွန်း မရောက်သော အနေအထား၊ ပါတီ။ This country lacks an effective party of the centre. ❍ Are her views to the left or right of centre? ❍ a centre party.
၆။ [C] (Brit ) (ဘောလုံး ကစားပွဲစသည်) အလယ်လူ။ See also centre forward
၇။ [C] (ဘောလုံး၊ ဟော်ကီ စသည်၌) ဘေးမှအလယ်သို့ပို့ခြင်း။
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၁။ အလယ်၌ထားသည်။
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၂။ (ဘောလုံးစသည် ကို) ဘေးမှအလယ်သို့ ပို့သည်။
❏ centre (sth) on/upon/round/around sb/sth [PHRV ] ဗဟိုပြုသည်။ အဓိကထားသည်။ အာရုံစိုက်သည်။
The social life of the town centres round the local sports club. ❍ Her research is centred on the social effects of unemployment. ❍ Public interest centres on the outcome of next week's by-election.
❏ centre forward (also centre ) n ဘောလုံးစသည် ကစား ရာ၌ ရှေ့တန်းအလယ်လူ၊ နေရာ။
play (at) centre forward.
❏ centre half n ဘောလုံးစသည် ကစားရာ၌ နောက်တန်း အလယ်လူ၊ နေရာ။
❏ centre of gravity n ကမ္ဘာ့ဆွဲအားဗဟို။ have a low/high centre of gravity.
❏ centre-piece n
၁။ အလယ်၌ အလှပြထားသည့် ပစ္စည်း။
၂။ အရေးကြီးဆုံးအချက်။ This agreement is the centre-piece of the international talks.
❏ centre spread n သတင်းစာ (သို့) မဂ္ဂဇင်း၏ အလယ် နှစ်ဖက်ခွမျက်နှာ။
❏ centre-stage (US center-stage ) n [U] အရေးပါသော နေရာ။ take/ move to/ occupy (the) centre-stage in world politics.

More examples

The centre of the room
[the exact/very centre] : Libourne is at the very centre of the wine-making region.
We caught a bus into the centre.
[centre of] : A hotel close to the centre of Edinburgh
[city/town centre] : Follow the signs to the town centre.
City centre shops
A health/job centre
The local Tourist Information Centre
The National Exhibition Centre
You should contact the visitor centre before you go.
A sports/shopping centre
An adult education centre
She runs a conference centre in Dover.
The Oxford Business Advice Centre
Attempts to make Prague a cultural centre
One of the world’s most important financial centres
[centre of] : The greatest centre of learning in northern Europe
[centre for] : The town is a major centre for the American book publishing trade.
[centre of] : People who live in the main centres of population
[centre of] : An issue that has been the centre of debate in this country recently
[centre of attention] : He’s very shy and hates being the centre of attention.
An attempt to make the Labour Party a party of the centre

Synonyms

address, adjust, align, arrange, at halfway point, attract, axis, balance, birthplace, bottom, breeding ground, bring to a focus, bring together, building, bull's eye, bull's-eye, capital, center ground, centermost, centralise, centrality, centriole, centrum, city, city centre, close on, club, cluster, collect, come to grips with, complex, concenter, concentrate, concentrate on, concentration, concourse, consensus, consolidate, converge upon, core, crossroads, cynosure, deal with, deepest, development, downtown, draw together, epicentre, equidistance, equidistant, essence, examine, facility, filling, focal point, focalize, focus, focus on, fulcrum, gather, gist, halfway point, happy medium, heart, home in on, hotbed, hub, inmost, inner, innermost, inside, intensify, interior, intermediacy, intermediary, intermediate, internal, involve, join, kernel, layer, magnet, mainstream, majority, mall, market, marketplace, marrow, mart, mean, medial, medialize, meet, meeting place, metropolis, mid, middle, middle America, middle England, middle course, middle ground, middle of the road, middle point, middlemost, midpoint, midst, midway, nave, navel, nerve center, nub, nucleus, omphalos, pith, pivot, pivotal point, place, plaza, polestar, position, quick, radial point, region, relate to, revolve around, root, seat, shoppers, shopping center, social center, station, target, town, trading center, travellers, turn on, unify

Antonyms

border, bordering, boundary, coating, disjoin, disperse, dissipate, divide, edge, edging, exterior, exteriority, external, extreme, ignore, margin, marginal, outer, outside, outskirts, peripheral, periphery, rim, scatter, separate, surroundings