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Center Point Meaning Attested 531.Center 英 美 Sɛntɚ

正面 531.center
英 美 ['sɛntɚ]

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释义:
n. 中心,中央;中锋;中心点vi. 居中,被置于中心vt. 集中,使聚集在一点;定中心adj. 中央的,位在正中的n. (Center)人名;(英)森特
例句:
1. The reader is cross - referenced to the entry " center " .读者可参见 center 词条.

1. 从里面走出来,重大事件。事件的出现、出来,发生事件。
center 中心来自PIE*kent, 刺,词根ac的现在分词,词源同acid, cone, amniocentesis(羊膜穿刺术). 原指圆规的固定点,中心点。
center (n.)late 14c., "middle point of a circle; point round which something revolves," from Old French centre (14c.), from Latin centrum "center," originally fixed point of the two points of a drafting compass, from Greek kentron "sharp point, goad, sting of a wasp," from kentein "stitch," from PIE root *kent- "to prick" (cognates: Breton kentr "a spur," Welsh cethr "nail," Old High German hantag "sharp, pointed"). Figuratively from 1680s. Meaning "the middle of anything" attested from 1590s. Spelling with -re popularized in Britain by Johnson's dictionary (following Bailey's), though -er is older and was used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Pope. Center of gravity is recorded from 1650s. Center of attention is from 1868.center (v.)1590s, "to concentrate at a center," from center (n.). Related: Centered; centering. Meaning "to rest as at a center" is from 1620s. Sports sense of "to hit toward the center" is from 1890. To be centered on is from 1713. In combinations, -centered is attested by 1958."

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