Center vs Front - What's the difference?
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The point in the interior of a circle or sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
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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.
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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.
(senseid)The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
The side of a building with the main entrance.
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(meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
(military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
(military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
(military) The direction of the enemy.
(military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
(obsolete) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
(informal) An act, show, , persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
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(historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
* Elizabeth Browning
The most conspicuous part.
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(obsolete) The beginning.
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(UK) a seafront or coastal promenade.
(obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
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Located at or near the front.
(comparable, phonetics) Of a vowel pronounced near the tip of the tongue.
(dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
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*:The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin, 2011, p.35:
*:The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.
*1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam, 2011, p.312:
*:They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.
*2010 , Ingrid D Rowland, "The Siege of Rome", New York Review of Books , Blog, 26 March:
*:The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
To face, be opposite to.
*1749 , (John Cleland), Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , Penguin, 1985, p.66:
*:After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.
*1813 , (Jane Austen), Pride and Prejudice :
*:down they ran into the dining-room, which fronted the lane, in quest of this wonder; it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton at the garden gate.
*1913 , (DH Lawrence), Sons and Lovers , Penguin, 2006, p.49:
*:She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening.
To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
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*:those that have willed to attaine to some greater excellence, have not beene content, at home, and at rest to expect the rigors of fortune; but have rather gone to meet and front her before, and witting-earnestly cast themselves to the triall of the hardest difficulties.
*1623 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry IV, Part 2 :
*:What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
To adorn the front of; to put on the front.
*2001 , (Terry Goodkind), The Pillars of Creation , p.148:
*:Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
(phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
*2005 , Paul Skandera / Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology , p.48:
*:The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
(linguistics) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence.
(slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
*2007 , Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher , p.183:
*:Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
*2009 September 1, Mark Sweney, The Guardian :
*:Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.
(colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
*2004 , (Danielle Steele), Ransom , p.104:
*:I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.
To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
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*:Boy don't try to front , / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
*2008 Markus Naerheim, The City , p.531
*:You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin' .
To appear before, as in to front court.
As nouns the difference between center and front
is that center is centre / center while front is the front end or side of something.center
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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.
Usage notes
The spelling centre is standard in UK English. In Canada it is typical in proper names, e.g. Toronto Centre for the Arts'', but "center" is also commonly used otherwise, e.g. ''shopping center'', ''center of town . Both spellings can be encountered even in the same text, e.g. in NHL hockey where there are many Canadian and US teams, reference might be made to the "center" forward position and a "centre" where a game is played. The indirect object of the intransitive verb is given the prepositions (on), (in), (at) or (around). (term) is primary used only in mathematical contexts. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary observes that (term) is objected to by some people on the grounds that it is illogical, but states that it is an idiom, and thus that such objections are irrelevant. It offers (term) as an alternative to (term) for those who would avoid the idiom.External links
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Noun
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- with smiling fronts encountering
- The inhabitants showed a bold front .
- like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front
- the very head and front of my offending
- summer's front
- Bless'd with his father's front , his mother's tongue.
- Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front .
- His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
Synonyms
* (l)Antonyms
* back * rearDerived terms
* active front * arctic front * battlefront * beachfront * back to front/back-to-front * bowfront * breakfront * cold front * common front * company front * confront * fly front * forefront * frontage * frontal * front and center * front bench/frontbench * front bottom * front burner * frontcourt * front crawl * front door * front drive * front end/front-end * front-facing * front fee * front foot * front grant * front group * frontispiece * frontless * frontlet * frontline/front line * front load * front man * front matter * front money * frontmost * front name * frontness * front nine * front office * front of house * front of the house * front organization * front page * front porch * front projector * front range * front ring * front room * front row * front runner * front running * front stall/front-stall * front teeth * front vowel * front wall * frontward * frontwards * front-wheel drive * frontwise * front yard * home front * in front * in front of * lakefront * occluded front * oceanfront * out-front * polar front * popular front * riverfront * seafront * shirtfront * shock front * shop front/shopfront * shorefront * stationary front * storefront * up front/upfront * warm front * waterfront * weather front * Y-fronts * zip-frontHyponyms
* (The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves) (nautical) (of a ship)Adjective
(-)- The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
