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Entertainment Definition–noun | 1. | the act of entertaining; agreeable occupation for the mind; diversion; amusement: Solving the daily crossword puzzle is an entertainment for many. |
| 2. | something affording pleasure, diversion, or amusement, esp. a performance of some kind: The highlight of the ball was an elaborate entertainment. |
| 3. | hospitable provision for the needs and wants of guests. |
| 4. | a divertingly adventurous, comic, or picaresque novel. |
| 5. | Obsolete. maintenance in service. |
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Center Definition–noun | 1. | Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices. |
| 2. | a point, pivot, axis, etc., around which anything rotates or revolves: The sun is the center of the solar system. <
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| 3. | the source of an influence, action, force, etc.: the center of a problem. |
| 4. | a point, place, person, etc., upon which interest, emotion, etc., focuses: His family is the center of his life. |
| 5. | a principal point, place, or object: a shipping center. |
| 6. | a building or part of a building used as a meeting place for a particular group or having facilities for certain activities: a youth center; The company has a complete recreation center in the basement. |
| 7. | an office or other facility providing a specific service or dealing with a particular emergency: a flood-relief center; a crisis center. |
| 8. | a person, thing, group, etc., occupying the middle position, esp. a body of troops. |
| 9. | the core or middle of anything: chocolate candies with fruit centers. |
| 10. | a store or establishment devoted to a particular subject or hobby, carrying supplies, materials, tools, and books as well as offering guidance and advice: a garden center; a nutrition center. |
| 12. | (usually initial capital letter ) Government. | a. | the part of a legislative assembly, esp. in continental Europe, that sits in the center of the chamber, a position customarily assigned to members of the legislature who hold political views intermediate between those of the Right and Left. |
| b. | the members of such an assembly who sit in the Center. |
| c. | the political position of persons who hold moderate views. |
| d. | politically moderate persons, taken collectively; Centrists; middle-of-the-roaders: Unfortunately, his homeland has always lacked a responsible Center. |
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| 13. | Football. | a. | a lineman who occupies a position in the middle of the line and who puts the ball into play by tossing it between his legs to a back. |
| b. | the position played by this lineman. |
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| 14. | Basketball. | a. | a player who participates in a center jump. |
| b. | the position of the player in the center of the court, where the center jump takes place at the beginning of play. |
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| 15. | Ice Hockey. a player who participates in a face-off at the beginning of play. |
| 17. | Physiology. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific organic process: the vasomotor center. |
| 18. | Mathematics. | a. | the mean position of a figure or system. |
| b. | the set of elements of a group that commute with every element of the group. |
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| 19. | Machinery. | a. | a tapered rod, mounted in the headstock spindle (live center) or the tailstock spindle (dead center) of a lathe, upon which the work to be turned is placed. |
| b. | one of two similar points on some other machine, as a planing machine, enabling an object to be turned on its axis. |
| c. | a tapered indentation, in a piece to be turned on a lathe, into which a center is fitted. |
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–verb (used with object) | 20. | to place in or on a center: She centered the clock on the mantelpiece. |
| 21. | to collect to or around a center; focus: He centered his novel on the Civil War. |
| 22. | to determine or mark the center of: A small brass star centered the tabletop. |
| 23. | to adjust, shape, or modify (an object, part, etc.) so that its axis or the like is in a central or normal position: to center the lens of a telescope; to center the work on a lathe. |
| 24. | to place (an object, part, etc.) so as to be equidistant from all bo
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| 25. | Football. snap (def. 20). |
| 26. | to pass (a basketball, hockey puck, etc.) from any place along the periphery toward the middle of the playing area. |
–verb (used without object) | 27. | to be at or come to a center. |
| 28. | to come to a focus; converge; concentrate (fol. by at, about, around, in, or on): The interest of the book centers specifically on the character of the eccentric hero. Political power in the town centers in the position of mayor. |
| 29. | to gather or accumulate in a cluster; collect (fol. by at, about, around, in, or on): Shops and municipal buildings center around the city square. |
—Idiom| 30. | on center, from the centerline or midpoint of a structural member, an area of a plan, etc., to that of a similar member, area, etc.: The studs are set 30 inches on center. Abbreviation: o.c. |
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Cabinet Definition–noun | 1. | a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet. |
| 2. | a wall cupboard used for storage, as of kitchen utensils or toilet articles: a kitchen cabinet; a medicine cabinet. |
| 3. | a piece of furniture containing a radio or television set, usually standing on the floor and often having a record player or a place for phonograph records. |
| 4. | (often initial capital letter) a council advising a president, sovereign, etc., esp. the group of ministers or executives responsible for the government of a nation. |
| 5. | (often initial capital letter) (in the U.S.) an advisory body to the president, consisting of the heads of the 13 executive departments of the federal government. |
| 6. | a small case with compartments for valuables or other small objects. |
| 7. | a small chamber or booth for special use, esp. a shower stall. |
| 9. | a room set aside for the exhibition of small works of art or objets d'art. |
| 10. | Also called cabinet wine. a dry white wine produced in Germany from fully matured grapes without the addition of extra sugar. |
| 11. | New England (chiefly Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts). a milk shake made with ice cream. |
| 12. | Archaic. a small room. |
| 13. | Obsolete. a small cabin. |
–adjective | 14. | pertaining to a political cabinet: a cabinet meeting. |
| 15. | private; confidential; secret. |
| 16. | pertaining to a private room. |
| 17. | of suitable value, beauty, or size for a private room, small display case, etc.: a cabinet edition of Milton. |
| 18. | of, pertaining to, or used by a cabinetmaker or in cabinetmaking. |
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