Mid
[mɪd]
Definition
(adj.) used in combination to denote the middle; 'midmorning'; 'midsummer'; 'in mid-1958'; 'a mid-June wedding' .
Editor: Winthrop--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.
(superl.) Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.
(superl.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11.
(n.) Middle.
(prep.) See Amid.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Middle.
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Definition
adj. middle: situated between extremes.—prep. amid.—n. (Shak.) middle.—ns. Mid′-age (Shak.) the middle time of life a person in middle-life; Mid′-air Mid′-heav′en the middle of the sky; Mid′day the middle of the day: noon.—adj. of or pertaining to noon.—adj. Mid′dest (Spens.) most nearly in the middle: middlemost.—n. the midst middle.—n. Mid′-hour the middle part of the day.—adj. Mid′land in the middle of or surrounded by land: distant from the coast: inland.—n. the interior of a country: (pl.) esp. the central parts of England.—n. Mid′-Lent the middle or fourth Sunday in Lent.—adj. Mid′most middlemost.—n. Mid′night the middle of the night: twelve o'clock at night.—adj. being at midnight: dark as midnight.—ns. Mid′noon noon; Mid′-sea the open sea.—adj. Mid′ship being in the middle of a ship.—n. Mid′shipman in the British navy an officer whose rank is next above that of a naval cadet: in the U.S. navy the lowest grade of officers in the line of promotion now called Naval cadet.—adv. Mid′ships.—ns. Mid′summer the middle of summer: the summer solstice about the 21st of June; Mid′summer-day the 24th of June; Mid′way the middle of the way or distance.—adj. being in the middle of the way or distance.—adv. half-way.—n. Mid′winter the middle of winter: the winter solstice (21st or 22d December) or the time shortly before or after it.
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Examples
- He stopped in mid career. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It is chiefly rose red, then blue, a metallic, mid-blue, and a very soft dark blue. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We are now in the heart of summer--in mid-June--the June of 1812. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I went out about mid-day to transact some business in Oxford Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- At about mid-day, we set out for the office of Messrs Spenlow and Jorkins, in Doctors' Commons. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I'll tell you how you mid see her, Mr. Yeobright, said Sam. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Twelve o'clock mid-day. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Quickly he unslung his bow and fitted a well-daubed arrow, and as Sabor sprang, the tiny missile leaped to meet her in mid-air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The little model was in good preservation up to the year 1900, when, being shipped to the Paris Exposition, it was lost, the steamer that carried it foundering in mid-ocean. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Views of an ox trotting, a wild bull on the charge, greyhounds and deer running and birds flying in mid-air were shown, also athletes in various positions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At mid-day following he reappeared at the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters, in the character, not new to him, of a witness before a Coroner's Jury. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was mid-afternoon when I was awakened by some one seizing my hand and covering it with kisses. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In tenements, where there is no yard for the family washing, clothes often appear flapping in mid-air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- By a master-stroke of secret arrangement, the inexhaustible baby here appeared at the door, suspended in mid-air by invisible agency. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The great lines send Marconigrams to each other in mid-ocean, and publish daily papers giving the latest news of the whole world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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