center

/ˈsɛntər/

意味: 中心、センター

例文: Momo claimed she’s the center of the house.
　　  モモが「この家の中心は私」と主張した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: center of attention(注目の的), city center(市の中心), center stage(中心舞台)

定義: 中心、真ん中のこと。何かの真ん中や重要な部分を指す。建物や場所の中心、または人々の注目が集まる場所や人を指すこともある。

centerは約6,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an area that is approximately central within some larger region
Noun: the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
Noun: a building dedicated to a particular activity
Noun: a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
Noun: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Noun: the object upon which interest and attention focuses
Noun: a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
Noun: the middle of a military or naval formation
Noun: (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
Noun: (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
Noun: a place where some particular activity is concentrated
Noun: politically moderate persons; centrists
Noun: (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
Noun: the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
Noun: mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
Noun: the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
Noun: (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play
Noun: a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
Verb: center upon
Verb: direct one’s attention on something
Verb: move into the center
Adjective: equally distant from the extremes
Adjective: of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

The park’s fountain is at the center of the garden.(公園の噴水は庭の中心にあります。)
Let’s meet at the center of the mall for lunch!(ランチはショッピングモールの中心で会いましょう！)
In the center of the debate, clarity emerged as a crucial point.(討論の中心で、明確さが重要なポイントとして浮かび上がりました。)
Noun: it is in the center of town
Noun: they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
Noun: they were in the eye of the storm
Noun: he hit the ball to deep center
Noun: they were raising money to build a new center for research
Noun: the gist of the prosecutor’s argument
Noun: the heart and soul of the Republican Party
Noun: the nub of the story
Noun: his stories made him the center of the party
Noun: in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere
Noun: they had to reinforce the center
Noun: the center fumbled the handoff
Noun: they received messages from several centers
Noun: a good plaza should have a movie house
Noun: they spent their weekends at the local malls
Noun: it is a center’s responsibility to get the football to the quarterback
Verb: Her entire attention centered on her children
Verb: Our day revolved around our work
Verb: Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies
Verb: That vase in the picture is not centered

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): center, center field, center of attention, center on, centerfield, centre, centre of attention, concentrate, concentrate on, core, essence, eye, focus, focus on, gist, halfway, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, mall, marrow, meat, middle, midpoint, midway, nerve center, nerve centre, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, plaza, pore, revolve about, revolve around, rivet, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall, snapper, substance, sum

Antonyms(反意語): left, right

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): area, basketball player, building, class, content, formation, hockey player, lineman, mercantile establishment, move, neural structure, object, place, point, position, refer, sweet, think, tract

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abattoir, abutment, acculturation, advance, age class, agitate, agriculture, anchorage, antinode, antipathy, apartment building, apply, architecture, arena, associate, autonomic nervous system, aviary, back, backfield, baseball diamond, bathhouse, battlefield, beat, bed ground, beginning, belief, blind spot, block, blow, boatyard, booboisie, bowling alley, brain, brainstem, brainstorm, brandish, breeding ground, broadcast area, brotherhood, bugbear, candied apple, candy, caste, catcher, celestial point, center, center field, cerebellar hemisphere, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrum, change hands, chapterhouse, chase away, chew over, chewing gum, chokepoint, cingulate gyrus, circulate, cleanup, clearing, clubhouse, colony, comfit, commonalty, concentrate, confectionery, confiture, corner, country store, craft, crossing, dandle, danger, demimonde, department store, desert, diencephalon, disarrange, disaster area, discount house, dislocate, displace, dormitory, drag, dribbler, drive, drop, dunker, education, end, engage, estate of the realm, evaluate, execration, expel, experience, exteriorize, fairground, fairway, farm building, feedlot, field, field of fire, firetrap, firing line, first base, flank, flick, flight, fluctuate, focus, focus on, food, forebrain, forward, free port, funnel, gambling house, ganglion, gazebo, geniculate body, geographic point, give, glide, goal, goalkeeper, government building, grassland, greenhouse, ground zero, grounds, guard, hall, hall of fame, hallucination, hardbake, hatchery, haunt, head, hearth, hemisphere, herd, heresy, high country, hilum, hindbrain, hippocampus, hit, hot spot, hotel, hotel-casino, house, hunting ground, hustle, hypothalamus, idea, ignorance, immigrant class, industrial park, infatuation, involve, issue, jar, kernel, knowledge domain, labor, lateralize, launch, left field, library, lift, limbic system, line, lineman, lore, lot, love, lower, lower class, mamillary body, maraschino, market, marketplace, matter to, mcburney’s point, medical building, medulla oblongata, metaknowledge, mid-off, mid-on, midair, midbrain, middle class, midway, military formation, military position, mine field, minefield, ministry, mobilize, morgue, mud flat, myelencephalon, navel, neencephalon, neighborhood, ninja, no man’s land, no-go area, node, nonpareil, noumenon, nucleus, oasis, object, observatory, office building, old school, olfactory bulb, open, opium den, outbuilding, outfield, overturn, packinghouse, paleencephalon, paleocerebellum, parade ground, park, peasantry, philosophize, picnic area, pitcher, place of worship, plan, planetarium, play, playing field, plaza, plot, pons, position, pour, presbytery, press down, pressure point, propel, public square, pull, pulse, pump, punctum, push, put, puzzle over, pyriform area, quadrant, race, radiation, rain shadow, raise, rake, range, rationalize, rear, reason, reflex arc, relocate, representation, resort area, rest house, restaurant, retreat, right field, rink, rock, roll, roman building, rotunda, rout out, ruin, run, safety, saltate, sanctuary, scan, scene, school, second base, secondary, section, sector, send, separate, shift, shooting gallery, shop, short, shortstop, shrubbery, signal box, singsong, sink, site, skyscraper, slide, sling, slip, space, spill, spinal cord, staging area, station, stir, strip mall, student union, study, subdivision, substantia nigra, subthalamus, sweetmeat, swing, tackle, take back, tank farm, tavern, telecom hotel, telencephalon, temple, terrain, thalamus, theater, think, think about, third base, toll plaza, topic, topographic point, tradition, transfer, translate, transmit, transport, trichion, tug, turn, unbelief, underworld, universe, unseat, unwind, upper class, uproot, upstage, vanishing point, vermis, wash, wedge, whistle, whorehouse, wind, wing, winner’s circle, wisdom, womanhood, woosh, work, world, yard, yeomanry

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): auditory center, bare bones, bight, bowels, broca’s area, bull’s eye, burn center, call center, capital, center of curvature, center of gravity, center of mass, center stage, city center, community center, conference center, control center, conversation piece, core, crosshairs, cynosure, eye-catcher, financial center, hub, hypostasis, inferior colliculus, inner city, listen, medical center, midfield, midstream, navel, nerve center, nombril, nucleus, quiddity, quintessence, recall, research center, respiratory center, rhinencephalon, seat, service club, settlement house, steep, storm center, student center, stuff, superior colliculus, think, wernicke’s area, zoom in

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: center, centering, central, centre, centric, centrical, concentration, essential, focus, focusing, focussing, meaty, middle, pithy, snap, summate

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics, law, science

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): er

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive, trust