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You're listening to Joanna
She has an American accent.
NGSL Rank: 333
centre
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Meanings
noun
- the point that is equally distant from every point on the circumference of a circle or sphere.
- the point from which an activity or process is directed, or on which it is focused.E.g. the city was a centre of discontent
- a place or group of buildings where a specified activity is concentrated.E.g. a conference centre
verb
- occur mainly in or around (a specified place).E.g. the textile industry was centred in Lancashire and Yorkshire
- place in the middle.E.g. to centre the needle, turn the knob