Word Meanings - CENTRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CENTRE)

• Bottom
• Breast
• hollow
• valley
• deep
• bed
• centre
• heart
• mind
• soul
• will
• Core
• Heart
• kernel
• nucleus
• Midst
• Middle
• thick
• throng

Related words: (words related to CENTRE)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• KERNELED; KERNELLED
  Having a kernel.
• BOTTOMRY
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
• VALLEY
  1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• NUCLEUS
  The body or the head of a comet. An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue. A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats. (more info) 1. A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made;
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• HEARTDEEP
  Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
• KERNEL
  1. The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp. ' A were as good
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• UNBOTTOMED
  Deprived of a bottom. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• INTHRONG
  To throng or collect together. Fairfax.