Word Meanings - RECENTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.

Related words: (words related to RECENTER)

• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• CENTERING
  See 6
• RESTORE
  To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
• CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
  An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
• CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
  A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• RESTORER
  One who, or that which, restores.
• CENTERPIECE; CENTREPIECE
  An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
• AGAINWARD
  Back again.
• CENTER; CENTRE
  1. To be placed in a center; to be central. 2. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes
• CENTERFIRE CARTRIDGE
  See CARTRIDGE
• RESTOREMENT
  Restoration.
• AGAINBUY
  To redeem. Wyclif.
• CENTER
  A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position util the work becomes self-supporting. One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
• 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.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• SELF-CENTERED; SELF-CENTRED
  Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.
• ORTHOCENTER
  That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
• CIRCUMCENTER
  The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.