central
IPA: sˈɛntrʌɫ
noun
- (especially US) centre
- 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).
- Central (an area in Central and Western district, Hong Kong)
- The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
adjective
- Being in the centre.
- Having or containing the centre of something.
- Being very important, or key to something.
- (anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
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Examples of "central" in Sentences
- Too, which criteria matches the term central England?
- COLLINS: Obama also talked about Afghanistan, which he calls the central front in the war on terror.
- In 1958, Francis Crick used and characterized the concept of information in the context of stating what he called the central dogma of molecular biology.
- Our National Executive Committee said this in the context of addressing what it identified as the central task of the NDR - the intensification of the struggle for the eradication of poverty.
- He said he had gals come over to the condo to give him massages, that he had found the number in the "Washingtonian" magazine and recently he been using some what he called central American gals to give him massages.
- WARNER: I had the opportunity to question him, because I was concerned about this recent military action and whether that sort of sidetracked the -- what I called the central focus now on electing a unified -- not electing, but forming a unified government.
- The enormous depth of alluvial soil found in the _bolsones_ or depressions of the Mexican plateau, formed from rock-decay, or of volcanic material accumulated by the great lakes of recent times which covered them in the central part of the great _mesa central_, bear striking evidence to the filling-up process of the past.
- The moves by Mr. Maliki come after Mr. Allawi's Iraqiya bloc announced over the weekend that it was indefinitely suspending its participation in parliament to protest what it called the "central government's iron fist" in dealing with a bid by Sunni Arab leaders in several provinces to become regions with more powers independent of Baghdad.
- The few times the yuan has significantly weakened against the dollar during the trading day, rather than being guided down by Beijing through the daily setting of what it calls the central parity rate, have been due to the PBOC engineering a dollar shortage in China's interbank market, prompting banks to buy dollars on the foreign-exchange market to meet their own funding needs.
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