Synonyms of the word

central

• adj. Being in the centre.
• adj. Being the most important.
• adj. Having or containing the centre of something.
• adj. Being very important, or key to something.
• adj. (anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.

amidship

• adv. In the middle of a ship (as opposed to bow or stern).

bicentric

• adj. Having two centres.

bifocal

• adj. (optics) Having two focal lengths.
• adj. (of a correcting lens) Divided into two parts, one of which corrects for distance vision and the other…

cardinal

• adj. Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
• adj. (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
• adj. Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal…
• adj. Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
• n. A number indicating quantity, or the size of a set, e.g., one, two, three. (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal…
• n. (grammar) A word used to represent a cardinal number; a cardinal numeral.
• n. An official in the Catholic Church, ranking only below the Pope and the patriarchs. (See Wikipedia article…
• n. Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
• n. Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals)…
• n. A shade of scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock.
• n. (historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
• n. (obsolete) Mulled red wine.
• n. A freshwater fish, the cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi).

center

• n. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
• n. (geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
• n. (geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates…
• n. A place where some function or activity occurs.
• n. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
• n. (basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
• n. (ice hockey) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the…
• n. (American football, Canadian football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
• n. (netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
• n. (soccer) A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
• n. (rugby) One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside…
• n. (architecture) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position…
• n. (engineering) One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about…
• n. (engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point…
• n. (politics) The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
• adj. Of, at, or related to a center.
• v. (transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
• v. (transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway…
• v. (transitive) To give (something) a central basis.
• v. (intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
• v. (engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

centered

• adj. middlemost; located at the center.
• adj. (especially Canada, US) emotionally stable, calm, serene; having a balanced mind.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of center.

centric

• adj. Being in the centre; central.
• adj. (physics) Pertaining to a nerve centre.
• adj. (of diatoms) Being a member of the class Centrales.

centrical

• adj. In or by the center; central.
• adj. Containing a center.

exchange

• n. An act of exchanging or trading.
• n. A place for conducting trading.
• n. A telephone exchange.
• n. (telephony, US only?) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before…
• n. A conversation.
• n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
• n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
• n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…
• v. (transitive) To trade or barter.
• v. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

focal

• adj. Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.
• adj. (medicine) limited to a small area.

fundamental

• n. (usually in the plural) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork…
• n. (physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
• n. (music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.
• adj. Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
• adj. Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.

halfway

• adv. Half of the way between two points; midway.
• adv. Moderately; somewhat.

important

• adj. Having relevant and crucial value.

inner

• adj. Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside…
• adj. Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
• adj. Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
• adj. Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual,…
• adj. Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure, ; innermost…
• adj. Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more…
• n. An inner part.
• n. (South Africa) A duvet, excluding the cover.
• n. A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
• n. (cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
• n. (Britain, politics) One who supports remaining in the European Union.

key

• n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
• n. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain…
• n. A crucial step or requirement.
• n. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
• n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
• n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly…
• n. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular…
• n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a…
• n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
• n. (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
• n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple;…
• n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
• n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
• n. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
• n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
• n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
• n. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw…
• n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the…
• n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
• n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
• n. (masonry) A keystone.
• n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
• n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
• n. (heraldry) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.
• n. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or…
• adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
• adj. Important, salient.
• v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
• v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
• v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
• v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
• v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
• v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
• v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
• v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
• v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
• v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
• n. One of a string of small islands.
• n. Alternative form of quay.
• n. (slang) Clipping of kilogram. (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).

medial

• adj. Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
• adj. In or near the middle; not at either end.
• adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.
• adj. (linguistics) Closer to the addressee.
• adj. (linguistics, of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the…
• n. One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
• n. Any of various things that occur in the middle.

median

• n. (anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through…
• n. (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
• n. (statistics) In statistics and probability theory, the median is the number separating the higher half…
• n. (US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
• adj. Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.
• adj. (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
• adj. (statistics) Having the median as its value.

middle

• n. A centre, midpoint.
• n. The part between the beginning and the end.
• n. (cricket) The middle stump.
• n. The central part of a human body.
• n. (grammar) The middle voice.
• adj. Located in the middle; in between.
• adj. Central.
• adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.

middlemost

• adj. Nearest to the exact middle; midmost.

midmost

• adj. In the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost.

midway

• n. The middle; the midst.
• n. A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes.
• n. (US) The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated.
• n. (US) The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard)…
• adj. Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle.
• adv. Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points.

nuclear

• adj. (biology) Pertaining to the nucleus of a cell.
• adj. Pertaining to a centre around which something is developed or organised; central, pivotal.
• adj. Pertaining to the atomic nucleus.
• adj. Involving energy released by nuclear reactions (fission, fusion, radioactive decay).
• adj. Of a weapon: deriving its force from rapid release of energy through nuclear reactions.
• adj. (by extension, metaphoric, of a solution or response) Involving the destruction of something.
• n. nuclear power.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

primal

• adj. Being the first in time, or history.
• adj. Being of greatest importance; primary.
• adj. (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior…
• n. primal cut (of meat).

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

workplace

• n. The place where someone works.