Middle

['mɪd(ə)l] or ['mɪdl]

Definition

(noun.) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); 'young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable'.

(noun.) an intermediate part or section; 'A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end'- Aristotle.

(noun.) time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; 'the middle of the war'; 'rain during the middle of April'.

(verb.) put in the middle.

(adj.) between an earlier and a later period of time; 'in the middle years'; 'in his middle thirties' .

(adj.) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; 'Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500'; 'Middle Gaelic' .

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Definition

(a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.

(a.) Intermediate; intervening.

(a.) The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion

(a.) the waist.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Mean, medial, half way, between the extremes.

n. Midst, centre, central part.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See MEAN]

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Definition

adj. equally distant from the extremes: intermediate: intervening: (gram.) intermediate between active and passive reflexive.—n. the middle point or part: midst: central portion waist.—adjs. Midd′le-aged of or about the middle period of life (from about 35 to 50); Midd′le-class pertaining to or included in the middle class.—ns. Midd′le-earth (Shak.) the earth considered as placed between the upper and lower regions; Midd′leman one who stands in the middle between two persons: an agent who does business between two parties: in Ireland one who rents land in large tracts and lets it in small portions to the peasantry.—adjs. Midd′lemost Mid′most (B.) nearest the middle; Midd′le-sized of middle or average size.—ns. Midd′le-watch the period between midnight and 4 A.M.; Midd′le-weight a boxer or jockey of intermediate weight between light and heavy weight.—adj. Midd′ling of middle rate state size or quality: about equally distant from the extremes: moderate: (Scot.) not in very good health: fairly well or prosperous.—adv. moderately.—n. Midd′lingness mediocrity.—n.pl. Midd′lings the coarser part of ground wheat.—Middle Ages the time between the downfall of the western Roman empire about 476 A.D. and the Reformation in the first quarter of the 16th century or even earlier—in the later half of the preceding century when printing was invented America discovered and the revival of learning took place; Middle class that part of the people which comes between the nobility and the working-class; Middle distance (same as Middle ground); Middle English English as spoken and written from 1350 to 1500 or 1550; Middle ground the central portion of a picture—that is between the foreground and background; Middle Kingdom China; Middle passage the voyage across the Atlantic from Africa to the West Indies which was a time of horror on board a slave-ship; Middle States New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware; Middle term (logic) that term of a syllogism which appears both in the major premise and the minor but not in the conclusion.—Middle-class schools schools for the higher education of the middle class intermediate between the primary schools and the large public schools or the universities.

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