middle has definitions from the fields of anatomy,linguistics,education
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[ noun ] an area that is approximately central within some larger region

Synonyms

center heart eye centre

Examples

"it is in the center of town" "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle" "they were in the eye of the storm"

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Then Heywood_Sullivan , Kansas_City catcher , singled up the middle and Throneberry was across with what proved to be the winning run .

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

There is an extraordinary sense of presence in all of these recordings , apparently obtained at_least in part by emphasizing the middle and high_frequencies .

(Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)

It was then distilled at_least three times from a trap at_- 78 ` to a liquid_air trap with only a small middle fraction being retained in each distillation .

(Howard Fast, April Morning....)

We tumbled to a stop in Deacon_Gordon 's cow hole , a low-lying bit of pasture with a muddy pool of water in its middle .

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

In_particular he sought the gentle , sweet-faced nuns , with head_coverings and veils coming to the middle of their foreheads , remembering their expressions until he reached home and set them down on paper .

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[ adjective ] being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

Synonyms

mediate in-between

Examples

"adolescence is an awkward in-between age" "in a mediate position" "the middle point on a line"

Used in print

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

By the middle of the summer , many_of the larvae apparently receive such a good diet that it is `` optimal '' , and it is then that young queens begin to appear .

(S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)

There the middle one of the three curves denotes `` mean Skeletal Age '' for the Maturity Series boys and girls .

Thus , a child 's Skeletal Age `` dots '' may be classified as `` advanced '' when they appear above the middle curve , `` moderate '' when they appear immediately above or below the middle curve , and `` delayed '' when they appear below the lower curve .

Thus , a child 's Skeletal Age `` dots '' may be classified as `` advanced '' when they appear above the middle curve , `` moderate '' when they appear immediately above or below the middle curve , and `` delayed '' when they appear below the lower curve .

Related terms

intermediate

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[ adjective ] being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

Synonyms

mediate in-between

Examples

"adolescence is an awkward in-between age" "in a mediate position" "the middle point on a line"

Related terms

intermediate

4
[ adjective ] equally distant from the extremes

Synonyms

halfway midway center

Used in print

(James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)

On the third voyage , a near mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew_members on the Half_Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in mid Atlantic .

(Donald J. Plantz, Sweeney Squadron....)

I 'll take the middle .

Related terms

central

5
[ noun ] an intermediate part or section

Examples

: "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle

Used in print

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

In a series of fairy_tales and fantasies , Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story , with beginning , middle and end , complications , resolutions , climaxes , and conclusions .

Related terms

end beginning part

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[ noun ] (anatomy) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)

Synonyms

midsection midriff

Examples

"young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"

Used in print

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

When he had left , I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles , laughingly , with a thick index_finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action , not bothering to look .

Related terms

area torso

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[ adjective ] (linguistics) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages

Examples

"Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500" "Middle Gaelic"

Used in print

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

For_example , when the film is only four minutes old , Neitzbohr refers to a small , Victorian piano_stool as `` Wilhelmina '' , and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano_stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name , of_course , was Doris ( the English equivalent , when passed_through middle Gaelic derivations , of Wilhelmina ) .

Related terms

early late linguistics

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[ noun ] time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period

Examples

: "the middle of the war" "rain during the middle of April"

Used in print

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative , which is , at its simplest , the story of an action with , usually , a beginning , a middle , and an end - elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence .

Related terms

end beginning point deep

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[ adjective ] between an earlier and a later period of time

Examples

"in the middle years" "in his middle thirties"

Used in print

(Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)

He specifies , `` In the middle period of the Nineteenth Century it was colored by Christian supernaturalism , in the Twentieth Century it was affected by naturalism .

Related terms

early late mid intervening timing

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[ adjective ] (education) of the stage of education and schools between elementary and secondary including middle grades centering on 5 through 7

Synonyms

intermediate

Examples

"intermediate schools" "the intermediate (or middle) grades" "a middle school"

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[ verb ] put in the middle

Related terms

situate put

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