MIDDLE
\mˈɪdə͡l], \mˈɪdəl], \m_ˈɪ_d_əl]\
Definitions of MIDDLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
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time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
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between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
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of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic"
By Princeton University
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an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
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time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
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between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
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(linguistics) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
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Intermediate; intervening.
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The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion
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the waist.
By Oddity Software
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Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
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Intermediate; intervening.
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The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion
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the waist.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Equally distant from the extremes: intermediate: intervening.
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The middle point or part: midst: central portion.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Equally distant from the extremes; intermediate. Middle Ages, the period which intervened between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters in the fifteenth century. Middle term, that term in the premises with which those of the conclus; on are successively compared.
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The point or part equally distant from the extremities; the midst; centre. Middle-aged, being about the middle of the ordinary age of man. Middle-class, the class between the aristocracy and the labouring class. Middle-deck, the deck below the main deck in three-deckers. Middle-man, an agent between two parties, chiefly connected with the letting of land.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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