Bowel vs Center - What's the difference?
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(chiefly, medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
(in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
* 1592 , , I. i. 129:
(in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
* 1602 , , II. i. 48:
* Fuller
(obsolete, in plural) offspring
* 1604 , , III. i. 29:
To disembowel.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
The point in the interior of a circle or sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
* 1908 , , translating Euclid, Elements , III.9:
* 2005 , David Adam, The Guardian , 4 Jun 2005:
The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
(geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
A place where some function or activity occurs.
A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
(basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
(ice hockey) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
(American football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
(Canadian football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
(netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
(soccer) A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
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(rugby) One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
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(architecture) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
(engineering) One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
(engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
Of, at, or related to a center.
To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
* Prior
To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
(engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
As nouns the difference between bowel and center
is that bowel is (chiefly|medicine) a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine while center is centre / center.As a verb bowel
is to disembowel.bowel
English
Noun
(en noun)- And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
- The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
- His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
- Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
- Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
- Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire,
Derived terms
* bowel cancer * bowel movement * bowel obstruction * bowelless * disbowel * disembowel * embowel * irritable bowel syndrome * large bowel * unbowelVerb
(bowell)- Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].
See also
* large bowel * small bowel * small intestine * colon * laxative * tharmAnagrams
*center
English
Alternative forms
* centreNoun
(en noun)- If a point be taken within a circle, and more than two equal straight lines fall from the point on the circle, the point taken is the centre of the circle.
- Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.
- shopping center
- convention center
- the center of the controversy
- the center of attention
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Synonyms
* (point on a line midway between the ends) midpoint * (point in the interior of figure with mean coordinates) centroid, center of gravity, center of massAntonyms
* peripheryDerived terms
* center of attention * center of curvature * center of gravity * center of inertia * center of lift * center of mass * center stage * centerpiece * community center * job center * music center * pleasure center * shopping centerAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* centralVerb
(en verb)- Thy joys are centred all in me alone.