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Antonyms for dead center

Grammar : Adj, noun

Definition of dead center

Origin :
  • 1590s, "to concentrate at a center," from center (n.). Related: Centered; centering. Meaning "to rest as at a center" is from 1620s. Sports sense of "to hit toward the center" is from 1890. To be centered on is from 1713. In combinations, -centered is attested by 1958.
  • As in dead-on : adj exactly correct
  • As in : noun center of a target
Example sentences :
  • Come on, though, Morey—give me a hand—I got you off dead center.
  • Extract from : « Islands of Space » by John W Campbell
  • The trunk of a tree split the field of view as close to dead center as it could be.
  • Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith
  • I eyed her dead center, eye to eye until she couldn't take it any more.
  • Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith
  • In the dead center of the small black bull's-eye was a small white dot.
  • Extract from : « Sonny » by Rick Raphael
  • When this line is level the crank will be upon its dead center.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.--No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 » by Various
  • With a sharp pencil mark off the required length, starting from the dead center end.
  • Extract from : « A Course In Wood Turning » by Archie S. Milton and Otto K. Wohlers
  • The first mark should be just far enough in on the cylinder to insure cutting past the point of the dead center.
  • Extract from : « A Course In Wood Turning » by Archie S. Milton and Otto K. Wohlers
  • At this point it is well to state that the small end of all work should be turned at the dead center.
  • Extract from : « A Course In Wood Turning » by Archie S. Milton and Otto K. Wohlers
  • Away from the dead center the ravines were body-deep in chaparral, and the hillsides stood gray-green with old cactus.
  • Extract from : « Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas » by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty
  • It brought the dot up to dead center point in the locator plate and stopped.
  • Extract from : « The Winds of Time » by James H. Schmitz

Synonyms for dead center

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