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Meaning of "decentre" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DECENTRE

decentre  [diːˈsɛntə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DECENTRE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Decentre is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb decentre in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DECENTRE

PRESENT

Present
I decentre
you decentre
he/she/it decentres
we decentre
you decentre
they decentre
Present continuous
I am decentring
you are decentring
he/she/it is decentring
we are decentring
you are decentring
they are decentring
Present perfect
I have decentred
you have decentred
he/she/it has decentred
we have decentred
you have decentred
they have decentred
Present perfect continuous
I have been decentring
you have been decentring
he/she/it has been decentring
we have been decentring
you have been decentring
they have been decentring
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I decentred
you decentred
he/she/it decentred
we decentred
you decentred
they decentred
Past continuous
I was decentring
you were decentring
he/she/it was decentring
we were decentring
you were decentring
they were decentring
Past perfect
I had decentred
you had decentred
he/she/it had decentred
we had decentred
you had decentred
they had decentred
Past perfect continuous
I had been decentring
you had been decentring
he/she/it had been decentring
we had been decentring
you had been decentring
they had been decentring
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will decentre
you will decentre
he/she/it will decentre
we will decentre
you will decentre
they will decentre
Future continuous
I will be decentring
you will be decentring
he/she/it will be decentring
we will be decentring
you will be decentring
they will be decentring
Future perfect
I will have decentred
you will have decentred
he/she/it will have decentred
we will have decentred
you will have decentred
they will have decentred
Future perfect continuous
I will have been decentring
you will have been decentring
he/she/it will have been decentring
we will have been decentring
you will have been decentring
they will have been decentring
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would decentre
you would decentre
he/she/it would decentre
we would decentre
you would decentre
they would decentre
Conditional continuous
I would be decentring
you would be decentring
he/she/it would be decentring
we would be decentring
you would be decentring
they would be decentring
Conditional perfect
I would have decentre
you would have decentre
he/she/it would have decentre
we would have decentre
you would have decentre
they would have decentre
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been decentring
you would have been decentring
he/she/it would have been decentring
we would have been decentring
you would have been decentring
they would have been decentring
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you decentre
we let´s decentre
you decentre
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to decentre
Past participle
decentred
Present Participle
decentring
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DECENTRE


absenter
æbˈsɛntə
augmenter
ɔːɡˈmɛntə
center
ˈsɛntə
centre
ˈsɛntə
commenter
ˈkɒmɛntə
concentre
kɒnˈsɛntə
enter
ˈɛntə
epicenter
ˈɛpɪˌsɛntə
epicentre
ˈɛpɪˌsɛntə
inventor
ɪnˈvɛntə
Jobcentre
ˈdʒɒbˌsɛntə
magenta
məˈdʒɛntə
orienter
ˈɔːrɪˌɛntə
placenta
pləˈsɛntə
presenter
prɪˈzɛntə
recentre
riːˈsɛntə
renter
ˈrɛntə
right-of-centre
ˌraɪtəvˈsɛntə
supercenter
ˈsuːpərˌsɛntə
tenter
ˈtɛntə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DECENTRE

decencies
decency
decennaries
decennary
decennia
decennial
decennially
decennium
decennoval
decent
decenter
decently
decentness
decentralisation
decentralise
decentralist
decentralization
decentralize
decentralized processing
deceptibility

WORDS THAT END LIKE DECENTRE

business centre
call centre
city centre
community centre
conference centre
convention centre
craft centre
drop-in centre
exhibition centre
fitness centre
garden centre
health centre
information centre
leisure centre
rencontre
resource centre
service centre
shopping centre
the Centre
town centre
training centre

Synonyms and antonyms of decentre in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «decentre» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DECENTRE

Find out the translation of decentre to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of decentre from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «decentre» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

decentre
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

descentrar
570 millions of speakers

English

decentre
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

decentre
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

decentre
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

decentre
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

descentrar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

decentre
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

décentrer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersungguh-sungguh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dezentrieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

decentre
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

decentre
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Decentre
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

decentre
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

decentre
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सभ्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

décentré
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

decentrare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

decentre
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

decentre
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

decentre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

decentre
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

decentre
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

decentre
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

decentre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of decentre

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DECENTRE»

The term «decentre» is used very little and occupies the 161.281 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DECENTRE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «decentre» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «decentre» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about decentre

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECENTRE»

Discover the use of decentre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to decentre and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Understanding Child Psychology
A child in the concrete operations stage can decentre. Piaget's term. THINK ABOUT IT Given what you have learnt about Piaget's experiments looking at conservation, think about the Piaget and Inhelder study outlined here. Identify one main ...
Christine Brain, Penny Mukherji, 2005
2
A Teaching Assistant's Guide to Child Development and ...
However, children at this age are limited in their logical thinking as according to Piaget they are egocentric and unable to decentre. Egocentrism, or being egocentric, involves the child believing that others see the world as they do. The classic ...
Susan Bentham, 2014
3
From Foreign Language Education to Education for ...
If this were the case, then it would be necessary to teach biculturals to decentre from their dual ethnocentricity, but the ways in which this would be done would differ from the methods used with monoculturals to encourage them to decentre ...
Michael Byram, 2008
4
European dimension in pre- and in-service language teacher ...
To achieve this, learners undergo psychological change of a cognitive and of an affective nature. The relativisation or problematisation of learners' own culture requires of them an ability to 'decentre' from their own culture's representations of  ...
‎1994
5
Child Care and Education Level 3
... child is asked, Ts there the same amount of clay in each?' Learning to read Harry is 5 years old. His older. 1 1. Why does Anthony think that the mouse should look under the hat? 2. What does this tell you about Anthony's ability to decentre?
Penny Tassoni, 2007
6
Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders: Metacognition, ...
Metacognition, States of Mind and Interpersonal Cycles Giancarlo Dimaggio, Antonio Semerari, Antonino Carcione, Giuseppe Nicolò, Michele Procacci. him. It is, nevertheless, to be noted that, even if paranoids are usually unable to decentre, ...
Giancarlo Dimaggio, Antonio Semerari, Antonino Carcione, 2007
7
Decentre : À Propos de Centres D'artistes:
decentre is a book about artist-run culture that hopes to describe the breadth and quality of artist-initiated programs, projects and events, the issues we face in this milieu and how effectively we deal with them, that aims to both ...
Yyzbooks, 2008
8
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays
My proposal to decentre the plays and to reconsider their afterlives is not to be interpreted as a call for a palace revolution. Instead, it is a summons for the occasional adjustment of our perspective. To decentre the bard enables one better to ...
Michael Hattaway, 2002
9
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, ...
Centre/decentre. Each society tends to perceive reality in more or less coherent ways and maintains generally systematic and systemic values. These constitute its foundations or centres and are often viewed as the firm structures which are ...
Irene Rima Makaryk, 1993
10
Psychology and Education
Limitations include the inability to decentre and conserve and faulty views in regard to egocentrism. Egocentrism Piaget defined this not as being selfish but as being unable to take another's point of view or simply believing that everyone sees ...
Susan Bentham, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECENTRE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term decentre is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Art in post-normal times
It is time to decentre the celebrated so that a new self, novel genres and more relevant literature can be created. The writer is a freelance ... «The News International, Mar 15»
2
Businesses on the mindfulness bandwagon
The kind of awareness cultivated through mindfulness helps people to “decentre” from disruptive inner experiences, enabling us “to see ... «Financial Times, Mar 15»
3
Whatever happened to London's knife-crime epidemic?
We need to decentre the police as a way of tackling it." Sure enough, now that public attention has moved on and the debate can be conducted ... «The Independent, Apr 14»
4
Transhumanism for the Encyclopedia of Ethics, Science, Technology …
In this respect, 'transhumanism' needs to be distinguished from 'posthumanism', which aims to decentre the human as the locus of value ... «h+ Magazine, Mar 14»
5
Caribbean International Finance Industry: Why and What Politics …
If it can be argued that OFCs decentre the core/periphery dichotomy because these serve as conduits for multinationals to access the global ... «Stabroek News, Feb 14»
6
Royal Academy's Mexican revolution misses the bigger picture
By one of those intellectual masterstrokes of modern curating, the organisers of this show have decided to decentre the big three macho ... «The Guardian, Aug 13»
7
Divine astroturf: should anti-vaccinationists get their own church?
In this work, “Johannes di silentio”, one of the many pseudonyms Kierkegaard uses in order to decentre authorial authority, considers whether ... «The Conversation, Jun 13»
8
Is God interesting?
But there are no monographs devoted to my footwear on a July Sunday - not even a postmodern journal article hoping to decentre the binaries ... «ABC Online, Jul 12»
9
Brian Eno — Six Releases
... Juju Space Jazz; The Roil, The Choke; Ali Click, Distributed Being; Web; Web (Lascaux Mix); Decentre; Fractal Zoom (Separate time edit); ... «Audiophile Audition, Oct 11»
10
Building on shaky ground
Another concept is to decentre the city by creating a long snaking settlement pattern - stretching from Blenheim in the north to Oamaru in the ... «New Zealand Herald, Mar 11»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Decentre [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/decentre>. Apr 2024 ».
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