…a region of central France, including the cities of Orleans, Tours, and Chartres…
…the point that is equally distant from every point on the circumference of a circle or sphere…
…occur mainly in or around (a specified place)…
…an office in which large numbers of telephone calls are handled, especially one providing the customer services functions of a large organization…
…a real or imaginary line through the centre of something, especially one following an axis of symmetry…
…a part of an organization to which costs may be charged for accounting purposes…
…a large group of networked computer servers typically used by organizations for the remote storage, processing, or distribution of large amounts of data…
…a place providing care and recreation facilities for those who cannot be fully independent…
…(in the UK) an independent publicly funded advisory service on legal matters…
…a place separate from school where children can play under supervision…
…a tool consisting of a metal rod with a conical point for making an indentation, to allow a drill to make a hole at the same spot without slipping…
…the area in the centre of a town where municipal offices and other public buildings are situated…
…an establishment where plants and gardening equipment are sold…
…(in South East Asia) a market at which individual vendors sell ready-to-eat food from small booths…
…a building or establishment housing local medical services or the practice of a group of doctors…
…a group of closely connected nerve cells that perform a particular function; a ganglion…
…a part of an organization with assignable revenues and costs and hence ascertainable profitability…
…(in the UK and Canada) an institution in which people accused of a crime are held in custody while awaiting trial…
…a region of the brain involved in the comprehension or production of speech…
…the central point around which controversy or trouble happens…
…a large public building with many different sports and exercise facilities…
…a modern art gallery, exhibition centre, and concert hall in Paris, designed by Sir Richard Rogers and the Italian architect Renzo Piano (b.1937) and opened in 1977…
…an area of the brain situated in the hypothalamus and concerned with the regulation of food intake…
…(in the UK) a place to which young offenders are ordered by a court to report regularly for a set period, as a minor penalty…
…a point representing the mean position of the matter in a body or system…
…a place where people from a particular neighbourhood can meet for social events, education classes, or recreational activities…
…an institution for the short-term detention of illegal immigrants, refugees, people awaiting trial or sentence, or (formerly in the UK) young offenders…
…a place run by a welfare agency or charity where people may call casually for advice or assistance…
…a hostel providing temporary accommodation for distressed people such as refugees, the homeless, and those with psychiatric difficulties…
…the centroid of the immersed part of a ship or other floating body…
…a point from which the weight of a body or system may be considered to act. In uniform gravity it is the same as the centre of mass…
…a point on a surface through which the resultant force due to pressure passes…
…an agency offering advice and support to victims of violent sexual crime…
…the furthest point of a piston’s travel, at which it changes from an upward to a downward stroke…
…have or cause to have (a specified concern or theme)…
…a person or thing that excites everyone’s interest or concern…
…the point to which bodies tend by gravity…
…the centre of a circle which passes through a curve at a given point and has the same tangent and curvature at that point…
