centre
verb/ˈsentə(r)/
/ˈsentər/
(US English center)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they centre | /ˈsentə(r)/ /ˈsentər/ |
| he / she / it centres | /ˈsentəz/ /ˈsentərz/ |
| past simple centred | /ˈsentəd/ /ˈsentərd/ |
| past participle centred | /ˈsentəd/ /ˈsentərd/ |
| -ing form centring | /ˈsentərɪŋ/ /ˈsentərɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to be the person or thing around which most activity takes place; to make somebody/something the central person or thing
- centre around/round somebody/something State occasions always centred around the king.
- be centred around/round somebody/something Leisure activities were largely centred around the family.
- centre on/upon somebody/something The debate centred on an important practical question.
- be centred on/upon somebody/something Discussions were centred on developments in Eastern Europe.
Extra Examples- Conversation centred around their wedding plans.
- Roosevelt's foreign policy was centred around these themes.
- The investigations centred on him as the only real suspect in the case.
- The main story is centred on two young men, one a photographer, the other a gang leader.
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- be centred in…[intransitive] to take place mainly in or around the place mentioned
- Most of the fighting was centred in the north of the capital.
- [transitive] centre something (+ adv./prep.) to move something so that it is in the centre of something else
- This button will centre the image on the page.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin centrum, from Greek kentron ‘sharp point, stationary point of a pair of compasses’, related to kentein ‘to prick’.
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