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dead center
[ded sen-ter]
adverb
in or at the exact midpoint.
The town is located dead center between Dallas and Houston.
She took a single shot and hit the cardboard figure dead center.
noun
the exact center or midpoint.
I live in the dead center of the capitol, and parking is a nightmare.
I hate when people leave their shopping cart in the dead center of the aisle.
Machinery.
Also called dead point.(in a reciprocating engine) either of two positions at which the crank cannot be turned by the connecting rod, occurring at each end of a stroke when the crank and connecting rod are in the same line.
a tapered rod, mounted in the tailstock spindle of a lathe, upon which the work to be turned is placed.
Other 51Թ Forms
- dead-center adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dead center1
Example Sentences
But the Dodgers needed just four batters to match that with Andy Pages belting a three-run homer, his ninth of the season, to dead center in the bottom of the inning.
"RoboCop" endures and we are still talking about it almost four decades later because of the social and political issues it confronted, right there, dead center in the film.
Julio Rodriguez ended Williams’ run of scoreless innings and his personal home run drought, crushing a sinker over the wall in dead center for this third homer of the year.
Sophomore Jordan Woolery, who struck out with the bases loaded in the second inning, didn’t miss in the fifth, delivering a three-run homer to dead center field.
So, imagine me standing on top of a soapbox, dead center in the middle of a crowd of about 1,000 people, yelling at the top of my lungs, "All books are not created equal!"
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