Meaning of central | Babel Free

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1. A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).
2. Being in the centre
3. center
   US, especially
4. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
5. Having or containing the centre of something
6. The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
7. Being very important, or key to something
8. A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.
9. Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs
10. Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure. Of an element of an algebraic structure: which commutes with all other elements under multiplication Of a unital algebra over a field: whose center is exactly equal to the image of the base field

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Examples

“The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central.”

“Last month, L Brands Inc lingerie chain Victoria's Secrets chose to locate its first Hong Kong stores at the mall and the prime downtown district of Central.[…] British fashion brand Topshop will open a 14,000 sq ft store in Central in June, paying $516,000 a month in rent.”

“Thousands of protesters block the main street leading to the financial area known as the Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014.”

“For non-hikers, this tram, in operation since 1888, takes passengers from the bottom of Hong Kong Island’s Central neighborhood up 1,312 feet on Victoria Peak, the island’s highest mountain.”

“The sale of The Center, a 73-storey building in Hong Kong’s bustling Central district, surpassed a transaction earlier this year, where a prime commercial lot — occupied by a multi-storey car park also in Central — was sold off for HK$23.28 billion by the government to Henderson Land, which is owned by the city’s second richest man, Lee Shau-kee.”

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