middle
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English myddel, middel, from Old English middel (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Middel (“middle”), West Frisian mul (“middle”), Dutch middel (“means; medicine, cure”), German mittel (“middle”, adjective), Mittel (“means; medicament, remedy”, noun), Luxembourgish Mëttel (“means, method; medicament”), Vilamovian mytuł (“middle”), Yiddish מיטל (mitl, “middle”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk middel (“means”), Icelandic meðal (“average; means, medicine”), Swedish medel (“average, mean, middle”). See also mid.
Inflected forms:
form: middles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: myddle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: middlemost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: middlest
pos: adj
tags: childish
colloquial
superlative
form: myddle
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: middles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: middling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: middled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: middled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: myddle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A centre, midpoint.
pos: noun
examples: The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
gloss: The part between the beginning and the end.
pos: noun
examples: I woke up in the middle of the night.
In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
gloss: The middle stump.
pos: noun
gloss: The central part of a human body; the waist.
pos: noun
examples: If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.
gloss: The middle voice.
pos: noun
gloss: the center of the political spectrum.
pos: noun
examples: As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.
gloss: An essay on social or literary issues in a newspaper or magazine, originally placed between the leading articles and the reviews.
pos: noun
examples: ‘Did you see the Spec. had a middle on “Rural Tenacities” last week. That was all Huckley.’
gloss: Located in the middle; in between.
pos: adj
tags: no-comparative
examples: the middle point
middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages
gloss: Central.
pos: adj
tags: no-comparative
gloss: Pertaining to the middle voice.
pos: adj
tags: no-comparative
gloss: To take a middle view of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.
gloss: To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: center
midpoint
Related words: mid-
middle-
middling
Derived words: Hartington Middle Quarter
Llangynwyd Middle
Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove
Middle America
Middle American
-n
Middle Arm
Middle Babylonian
Middleback Range
Middle Beach
Middle Belt
Middlebourne
Middle Brook
Middlebrook
Middle Brother
Middleburg
Middlebury
Middle Caicos
Middle Cambrian
Middle Claydon
Middle Congo
Middle Cove
Middle Creek
Middle Dural
Middle Earth
middle earth
Middle-earth
middle-earth
Middle East
-ern
-ization
Middle England
-er
Middle European
Middle European Time
Middle Falbrook
Middle Flat
Middle Francia
Middle Franconia
Middle Gap
Middle Harbour
Middle Kingdom
Middlemount
Middle Mouse
Middle Ocean
Middle Park
Middle Passage
Middle Pocket
Middle Point
Middle Quezon Hill Subdivision
Middle Quirino Hill
Middle Rainton
Middle Ridge
Middle River
Middle Rock Quarry
Middle Saxon
Middlesbrough
Middlesex
Middle States
Middle Stoke
Middle Swan
Middle Tamil
Middle Tarwin
Middleton
Middleton Beach
Middleton Grange
Middletown
Middle Wallop
Middle Watut
Middle West
Middle White
Middlewich
Neo-Middle Egyptian
North and Middle Andaman
middle cerebral artery
middle cervical ganglion
middle ear
middle finger
middle lamella
middle leg
middle meningeal artery
middle phalanx
phalange
middle pharyngeal constrictor
middle rib
middle scalene muscle
middle temporal artery
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