Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See centering.
  • noun See centering.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See centring.

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  • verb Present participle of centre.
  • noun The act of moving something to the centre

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Examples

  • The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, which has just published its final report, has shown wisdom, therefore, in centring its recommendations about that fundamental question.

    Dollars, Doctors, and Disease 1969

  • The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, which has just published its final report, has shown wisdom, therefore, in centring its recommendations about that fundamental question.

    Dollars, Doctors, and Disease 1933

  • The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, which has just published its final report, has shown wisdom, therefore, in centring its recommendations about that fundamental question.

    Dollars, Doctors, and Disease 1933

  • The file was kept at the solicitors Harbottle & Lewis, and the police investigation is now centring on which executives tried to conceal its contents.

    Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking humble pie 2011

  • Yusuf Sonmez, 53, is among at least nine people indicted in Kosovo in a case centring on a clinic in the Kosovan capital Pristina where organs were allegedly illegally removed from victims and transplanted into wealthy recipients.

    Turkish doctor arrested over organ traffic allegations 2011

  • Questions relating specifically to the authorities' ongoing inquiries, centring on allegations that Terry racially abused Anton Ferdinand during his club's defeat by Queens Park Rangers on 23 October, were blocked by the FA on Monday to ensure the cases are not prejudiced, yet the 30-year-old said he remains focused and ready to lead the side out on Tuesday.

    John Terry frustrated by FA block on answering racial-abuse questions 2011

  • Male relationship woes are sympathetically mocked in this multi-stranded romcom, centring on Carell's near-divorcee and Gosling's flawed pick-up artist.

    This week's new films 2011

  • It is the biggest historical abuse claim against the Roman Catholic church of England and Wales, centring on the alleged abuse of boys, aged between 10 and 16, from 1960 to 1992.

    Roman Catholic church faces £8m abuse payout Riazat Butt 2010

  • Shown in competition at Cannes as Panique au village, this feature-length, French, stop-action animated film is a sort of highly eccentric, not to say whimsical, Gallic Wallace & Gromit, centring on the adventures around the world and under the sea of three toys – an Indian, a cowboy and a talking horse, who's twice as smart as the other two.

    A Town Called Panic – review Philip French 2010

  • This centring on the experience and combining with the other elements means that emotion in any experience which is expressed significantly enough is directed to an adequate and fully expressed end; in the process, therefore, of this artistic experiencing it is employed creatively.

    Poetry Appreciation and Eating Babies 2009

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