- mid|dle
- mid|dle «MIHD uhl», noun, adjective, verb, -dled, -dling.–n.1. the point or part that is the same distance from each end or side; center: »
the middle of the road.
2. the middle part of a person's body; waist.–adj.1. halfway between; in the center; at the same distance from either end or side: »the middle house in the row, the middle point of a line.
2. in between; medium: »a man of middle size. O, beware the middle mind That purrs and never shows a tooth (Elinor H. Wylie).
SYNONYM(S): intermediate.3. Grammar. intermediate between active and passive, as a voice of Greek verbs which represents the subject as acting on or for itself.4. Phonetics. medial.–v.t.1. to set or place in the middle.2. to fold in the middle; double, as a rope.╂[Old English middel]Synonym Study noun.1 Middle, center mean a point or part halfway between certain limits. Middle most commonly means the part more or less the same distance from each end, side, or other limit of a thing or between the beginning and end of a period or action: »the middle of the room. He came in the middle of the day.
Center applies to the point in the exact middle of something having a definite outline or shape, such as a circle, sphere, or square, or to something thought of as the point from, to, or around which everything moves: »the center of a circle. Washington is the center of our government.
Mid|dle «MIHD uhl», adjective.1. between ancient and modern, or old or new: »the Middle Ages, the Middle Kingdom.
2. of or having to do with a period in the history of a language intermediate between the periods called “Old” and “Modern” (or “New”): »Middle English.
3. Geology. of or having to do with an intermediate principal division of a period, system, or the like, between the upper and lower divisions: »Middle Cambrian.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
