Middle

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English

Noun

Middle (plural Middles)
  1. A centre, midpoint
    The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
  2. The part between the beginning and the end.
  3. (cricket) the middle stump
  4. The central part of a human body.

Synonyms

Adjective

Middle (not comparable)

  1. Being in the middle or in-between; as middle point, middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages, middle weight, etc.
  2. Central to.

Synonyms

Verbs for Middle

ascertain—; assemble in—; balance in—; cast in—; cleave in—; cling to—; concentrate in—; contract in—; converge on—; designate—; focus on—; intersect in—; narrow toward—; proceed from—; situate in —; split in—; taper toward—; —averages; —centralizes; veer toward—.

Thesaurus

active, active voice, amidships, arbitrational, arbitrative, average, axial, axis, balance, bisect, center, center of action, center of gravity, center on, center round, centermost, central, centralize, centralized, centric, centroid, centroidal, centrosymmetric, centrum, coming between, concentrated, core, dead center, double, epicenter, equatorial, equidistant, fold, generality, geocentric, going between, golden mean, halfway, happy medium, heart, hub, intercessional, intercessory, intercurrent, interior, interjacent, interlocutory, intermedial, intermediary, intermediate, intermediatory, intervenient, intervening, interventional, juste-milieu, kernel, key, marrow, mean, medial, median, mediating, mediative, mediatorial, mediatory, medio-passive, mediocre, mediocrity, mediterranean, medium, medulla, mesial, mesne, metacenter, mezzo, mid, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle voice, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midpoint, midriff, midships, midst, midway, nave, navel, norm, normal, nub, nuclear, nucleus, omphalic, omphalos, pacificatory, par, passive, passive voice, pith, pivot, pivotal, reflexive, rule, run, stomach, storm center, umbilical, umbilicus, via media, voice, waist

Etymology

From Middle English middel, from Old English middel, middle (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midjilan, *medjilan (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō, *medjō (“middle, midst”), from Proto-Indo-European *medhy- (“middle, midst”). Cognate with West Frisian middel, Dutch middel, German mittel (“middle”, adjective), German Mittel (“middle, means”, noun), Danish {{ Template:Dan/script |middel| face=term | lang=dan }} (“means, agent, medicine”). Related also to Swedish medel (“means, medium”), Icelandic meðal (“means, medicine”). See also mid.

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

centre, midpoint
part between beginning and end
central part of human body
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Adjective

being in the middle or in-between
central

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