Middle

Word MIDDLE
Character 6
Hyphenation mid dle
Pronunciations /ˈmɪdəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Middle"

What do we mean by middle?

Equally distant from extremes or limits; central. adjective

Being at neither one extreme nor the other, as of a sequence or scale; intermediate. adjective

Of or relating to a division of geologic time between an earlier and a later division. adjective

Of or relating to a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages. adjective

Of, relating to, or being a verb form or voice in which the subject both performs and is affected by the action specified. adjective

An area or a point equidistant between extremes; a center. noun

Something intermediate between extremes. noun

The middle part of the human body; the waist. noun

A middle term. noun

The middle voice. noun

A verb form in the middle voice. noun

To place in the middle. transitive verb

To fold in the middle. transitive verb

(in the middle) In a difficult situation. idiom

(in the middle) Engaged in doing something. idiom

Equally distant from the extremes or limits; mean; middling: as, the middle point of a line; the middle time of life.

Intervening; intermediate.

In grammar: Intermediale between active and passive: applied to a body of verb-forms of which the office is more or less distinctly reflexive, or denotes the subject as acting on or for or with reference to itself, often answering to an English intransitive verb: as, middle voice, middle ending, middle tense.

A centre, midpoint.

The part between the beginning and the end.

The middle stump.

The central part of a human body; the waist.

(grammar) The middle voice.

The word "middle" in example sentences

Much easier to control masses of hungry, helpless, ill-heathed poor ppl, than a mob of middle class, gun toting well off middle& upper dollarppl. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The middle of the bell curve doesn't mean the *middle* after all. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2007)

NON DISTRIBUTIO MEDII: (Latin) _a non-distribution of the middle, or the undistributed middle_. ❋ William Patterson Atkinson (N/A)

The river Doon was near, and Tam just reached the middle of the bridge when one of the witches, whom he called Cutty Sark, reached him; but it was too late -- he had passed the _middle_ of the stream, and was out of the power of the crew. ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)

In Latin America, the term middle class certainly doesn't evoke images of suburbanites commuting to office parks in their Volvos. ❋ Matt Moffett (2011)

He's developed a form of Tourette's that causes him to employ the term "middle class" in nearly every sentence. ❋ Kimberley A. Strassel (2011)

We don't have classes in America -- I don't even like the term middle class. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sorry, if the term middle class is to have any meaning at all there has to be something on either side. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Of course there is no strict definition of the term middle class, but for you to assert that one must be living in poverty to not be included in the middle class is just plain silly. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Basically from the middle ground perspective (mine if you permit me to use the term middle-ground), a Caliphate can be a benign thing, or a threatening thing. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This is the picture it presents throughout the middle ages, during the period which, for Christianity, marked an eclipse of the intellect and, as it were, an enfeeblement of the reason to such a degree that the term middle ages becomes synonymous with intellectual decadence. ❋ Liber, Maurice (1906)

Instead, the rise to prominence of Mondeo Man in 1992 who voted Conservative and Worcester Woman who embraced Tony Blair five years later, reflects the fact that far from being a homogenous stratum of doctors and lawyers and teachers with broadly shared values, the term middle-class has expanded to cover an increasingly heterogenous swathe of tribes many of whom have little in common. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To be fair, the piece did mention passingly that, "The term middle class is a broad one, without a single, universally accepted definition." ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have no problem with the term middle brow - and indeed the more people read these texts the better. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nick Clegg aims to give money back to low and middle-income earners, but many may be shocked by what he calls middle ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the middle is a glinting drawing room that could be made of minerals; the floor is a lake of black ice. ❋ Susannah Clapp (2010)

"Somewhere in the middle is the way it went down," said Mark Keefer, a producer at MPT. ❋ Ben Pershing (2010)

In the middle is my iMac and Formac monitor with a pair of Roland monitor speakers, a shuttle pro controller and a Frontier Alphatrack controller. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I would suggest that Mr. Obama learn a lesson from his golf game, straight down the middle is the way to go! ❋ Unknown (2009)

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