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/sˈɛntərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Centre, Center v. i. (past & past part. centered or centred; pres. part. centering or centring)

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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." "Our hopes must center in ourselves alone."

noun

Centering n. (Written also centring) (Arch.) Same as Center, n., 6.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Centering" Quotes from Famous Books

... his rush toward the burning building, since from various directions human figures were to be seen centering in that quarter, for the employes of the fur company were certainly loyal and willing to do all that men might in order to ...

— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne

... 10,000. Besides being the centre of a large trade in agricultural products, it is extensively engaged in manufacturing lumber, sash, doors and blinds, and possesses numerous large manufactories, oat-meal mills, and the finest marble works in the State. It is also the centering point of a very large wholesale and retail trade. It is situated at the head of the rich Muscatine Island, the garden spot of the Northwest, and is the shipping point for millions of melons and sweet ...

— Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk • Black Hawk

... dark and unusual. The men of this land never take anything for granted. It is a part of the training of the woodsman and seaman to identify any unusual movement or object, or to trace any unusual sound, before he is satisfied to let it pass unheeded. Centering his attention upon the distant object the man distinguished a movement back and forth. Nothing but a man could make such a movement he knew, and he also knew that any man out there was in grave danger. He called some other fishermen, manned a boat and Dr. Grenfell ...

— The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador - A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell • Dillon Wallace

... the Ontario data of the relation of the evaporation to the results in livable chicks, it can be readily observed that all good hatches have evaporation centering around the 12 per cent. moisture loss, and that all lots with evaporations above 15 per cent. hatch ...

— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings

... be changed, and a habit formed of ruling for the benefit of the subject peoples. Two or three generations of provincials must have grown up in love with Rome before the end of the cycle, or the Empire would then inevitably break. By 37 A.D., the Crest-Wave would have left Italy, and would be centering in Spain. Spain, hating Rome, would shake off the Roman yoke; she would have the men to do it;—and the rest of the world would follow suit. Even if Spain should set herself to the Gods' work of union-making, what path should she take towards it? Only that of ...

— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

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