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Middle   /mˈɪdəl/   Listen
Middle

adjective
1.
Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series.  Synonyms: in-between, mediate.  "In a mediate position" , "The middle point on a line"
2.
Equally distant from the extremes.  Synonyms: center, halfway, midway.
3.
Of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages.  "Middle Gaelic"
4.
Between an earlier and a later period of time.  "In his middle thirties"
noun
1.
An area that is approximately central within some larger region.  Synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart.  "They ran forward into the heart of the struggle" , "They were in the eye of the storm"
2.
An intermediate part or section.
3.
The middle area of the human torso (usually in front).  Synonyms: midriff, midsection.
4.
Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period.  "Rain during the middle of April"
verb
1.
Put in the middle.



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"Middle" Quotes from Famous Books



... sound, off to port. Then even the men who stood in the middle of the spar deck were able to see the top of a broad column of water that rose out of ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock

... was a sound of trumpets. The Swiss had cleared the middle of the road, along which a crier proceeded, dressed in a flowered tunic, and bearing on his breast a scutcheon on which was embroidered the arms of Paris. He read from a paper in his hand the ...
— The Forty-Five Guardsmen • Alexandre Dumas

... a theory, I will admit; but it is rather going back to the Middle Ages. You see, I have lived in the East a lot; perhaps I have ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer

... passing this Bill to restrain the trade of the New England colonies and to prohibit them the fisheries of Newfoundland, as well as from trading with foreign countries, intelligence reached England that the middle and southern colonies were countenancing and encouraging the opposition of their New England brethren, and a second Bill was brought into Parliament and passed for imposing similar restraints on the colonies of East and ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson

... an elderly man of middle height and spare and sinewy frame walked briskly in, shook hands with Lord Evelyn, was introduced to the tall, red-bearded Englishman (who still stood, hat in hand, and with a portentous stiffness in his demeanor), begged his two guests to be seated, and himself sat down at an open bureau, which ...
— Sunrise • William Black


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