VERBS
be
ADV
very
The new office is very central, making it convenient for all employees to commute.
quite
VERBS
be
ADV
absolutely
Getting enough sleep is absolutely central to performing well at school or work.
PREP
to
Good communication is central to building strong relationships with your family.
adj
Being in the centre.
Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised.
The plantoid[…]will have a central stem containing a reservoir of liquid plastic of a sort that can be frozen by ultraviolet light. Half a dozen cylindrical roots will branch off this stem, and the plastic will flow through these from the reservoir to the tip. As in a real root, the tip will be a specialised structure.
Having or containing the centre of something.
Being very important, or key to something.
Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion.
Passengers crowd in the main concourse at London Euston on January 28 2017, before boarding West Coast Main Line services. The urgent need to relieve congestion and improve reliability on the WCML remains central in the recently published Full Business Case for HS2.
Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
noun
center
name
A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).
An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central.
Last month, L Brands Inc lingerie chain Victoria's Secrets chose to locate its first Hong Kong stores at the mall and the prime downtown district of Central.[…] British fashion brand Topshop will open a 14,000 sq ft store in Central in June, paying $516,000 a month in rent.
The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.
A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.
noun — a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility whe
adjective — serving as an essential component
Conforming to the stereotypical image of a particular type of person or group.
"Do I or do I not have the quintessential in-laws? I swear they're right out of central casting. A blowhard brother-in-law, bratty kids, and a sourpuss mother-in-law wide as a bill
Synonym of out of central casting.
He was not the pompous university president from central casting, always pontificating; he was more like a charming professor who walked around his campus wearing the navy blue cap
Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised.
WiktionaryThe plantoid[…]will have a central stem containing a reservoir of liquid plastic of a sort that can be frozen by ultraviolet light. Half a dozen cylindrical roots will branch off this stem, and the pl
WiktionaryThe network had no central ownership or controller; and it did only one thing – transfer data packets from one edge of the network to their destination at another edge.
WiktionaryThe best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central.
WiktionaryLast month, L Brands Inc lingerie chain Victoria's Secrets chose to locate its first Hong Kong stores at the mall and the prime downtown district of Central.[…] British fashion brand Topshop will open
WiktionaryThousands of protesters block the main street leading to the financial area known as the Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, central is marked as US. Watch for register when choosing this word.