The centre

Definition

centre ( US center ) /'sentǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [C] အလယ္။ ဗဟို။ the centre of a circle ❍ the centre of London ❍ a town/city centre ❍ chocolates with soft centres. ၂။ [C] အမ်ား အာ႐ံုစိုက္ရာ။ 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] အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးဗဟို။ a centre of power ❍ Washington DC is a centre of government. ၄။ [C] စုေဝးရာ။ a centre of industry/ commerce/ the steel trade ❍ a shopping/sports/leisure/community centre. ၅။ (esp the centre ) [sing] လက္ဝဲစြန္း လက္ယာစြန္း မေရာက္ေသာ အေနအထား၊ 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 ) (ေဘာလံုး ကစားပြဲစသည္) အလယ္လူ။ See also centre forward ၇။ [C] (ေဘာလံုး၊ ေဟာ္ကီ စသည္၌) ေဘးမွအလယ္သို႔ပို႔ျခင္း။ v ၁။ အလယ္၌ထားသည္။ The word processor automatically centres the words on the page. ၂။ (ေဘာလံုးစသည္ ကို) ေဘးမွအလယ္သို႔ ပို႔သည္။ ❏ centre (sth) on/upon/round/around sb/sth [ PHRV ] ဗဟိုျပဳသည္။ အဓိကထားသည္။ အာ႐ံုစိုက္သည္။ 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 ေဘာလံုးစသည္ ကစား ရာ၌ ေရွ႕တန္းအလယ္လူ၊ ေနရာ။ play (at) centre forward. ❏ centre half n ေဘာလံုးစသည္ ကစားရာ၌ ေနာက္တန္း အလယ္လူ၊ ေနရာ။ ❏ centre of gravity n ကမ႓ာ့ဆြဲအားဗဟို။ have a low/high centre of gravity. ❏ centre-piece n ၁။ အလယ္၌ အလွျပထားသည့္ ပစၥည္း။ ၂။ အေရးႀကီးဆံုးအခ်က္။ This agreement is the centre-piece of the international talks. ❏ centre spread n သတင္းစာ (သို႔) မဂၢဇင္း၏ အလယ္ ႏွစ္ဖက္ခြမ်က္ႏွာ။ ❏ centre-stage ( US center-stage ) n [U] အေရးပါေသာ ေနရာ။ take/ move to/ occupy (the) centre-stage in world politics.

Examples

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