Definition of midle
1. middle [ n ] an area that is approximately central within some larger region
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"
(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 .
Synonyms center middle heart eye centre Related Terms area city_center inner_city seat midfield hub financial_center see center_stage midstream city_of_london hub medical_center storm_center2. middle [ a ] being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
Examples:
"adolescence is an awkward in-between age"
"in a mediate position"
"the middle point on a line"
(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 .
Synonyms middle mediate in-between Related Terms intermediate3. middle [ a ] being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
Examples:
"adolescence is an awkward in-between age"
"in a mediate position"
"the middle point on a line"
4. middle [ a ] equally distant from the extremes
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 .
Synonyms halfway middle midway center Related Terms central5. middle [ n ] an intermediate part or section
Examples: : "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
(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 .
Synonyms middle Related Terms end beginning part6. middle [ n ] the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
Examples:
"young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
(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 .
Synonyms middle midsection midriff Related Terms area torso7. middle [ a ] (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"
(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 ) .
Synonyms middle Related Terms early late linguistics8. middle [ n ] time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
Examples: : "the middle of the war"
"rain during the middle of April"
(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 .
Synonyms middle Related Terms end beginning point deep9. middle [ a ] between an earlier and a later period of time
Examples:
"in the middle years"
"in his middle thirties"
(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 .
Synonyms middle Related Terms early late mid intervening timing10. middle [ a ] of the stage of education and schools between elementary and secondary including middle grades centering on 5 through 7
Examples:
"intermediate schools"
"the intermediate (or middle) grades"
"a middle school"
11. middle [ v ] put in the middle
Synonyms middle Related Terms situate putSimilar Spelling
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