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navel

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CIDE DICTIONARY

naveln. [AS. nafela, fr. nafu nave; akin to D. navel, G. nabel, OHG. nabolo, Icel. nafli, Dan. navle, Sw. nafle, L. umbilicus, Gr. 'omfalo`s, Skr. n. √260. See Nave hub, and cf. Omphalic, Nombril, Umbilical.].
  •  A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus; called also belly button in humans. See Umbilicus.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The central part or point of anything; the middle.  [1913 Webster]
    "Within the navel of this hideous wood,
    Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.  [1913 Webster]
Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. Johnson. -- Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

navel, n.
1 a depression in the centre of the belly caused by the detachment of the umbilical cord.
2 a central point.

Idiom
navel orange a large seedless orange with a navel-like formation at the top.
Etymology
OE nafela f. Gmc, rel. to NAVE(2)

THESAURUS

navel

axis, center, center of action, center of gravity, centroid, centrum, core, dead center, epicenter, heart, hub, kernel, marrow, medulla, metacenter, middle, nave, nub, nucleus, omphalos, pith, pivot, storm center, umbilicus

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navel

Middle

N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.

Centrality

N centrality, centricalness, center, middle, focus, core, kernel, nucleus, nucleolus, heart, pole axis, bull's eye, nave, navel, umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith, vertebra, vertebral column, hotbed, concentration, centralization, symmetry, center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of oscillation, center of buoyancy, metacenter, central, centrical, middle, azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric, middlemost, rachidian, spinal, vertebral, middle, midst, centrally.


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