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Word Meanings - RECENTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.

Related words: (words related to RECENTER)

  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • AGAINSAY
    To gainsay. Wyclif.
  • AGAIN
    again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
  • CENTERING
    See 6
  • RESTORE
    To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
  • CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
    An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
  • CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
    A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel
  • AGAINST
    1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
  • AGAIN; AGAINS
    Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
  • RESTORER
    One who, or that which, restores.
  • CENTERPIECE; CENTREPIECE
    An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
  • AGAINWARD
    Back again.
  • CENTER; CENTRE
    1. To be placed in a center; to be central. 2. 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. Dr. H. More. Our hopes
  • CENTERFIRE CARTRIDGE
    See CARTRIDGE
  • RESTOREMENT
    Restoration.
  • AGAINBUY
    To redeem. Wyclif.
  • CENTER
    A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position util the work becomes self-supporting. One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
  • CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
    To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
  • THEREAGAIN
    In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
  • SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
    Centering in one's self.
  • SELF-CENTERED; SELF-CENTRED
    Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.
  • ORTHOCENTER
    That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
  • CIRCUMCENTER
    The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

 

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