mid

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  1. adjective Middle; central.
  2. adjective Being the part in the middle or center: in the mid Pacific.
  3. adjective Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a vowel produced with the tongue in a position approximately intermediate between high and low, as the vowel in but.
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  • I thought some states require the Governor to name a mid-term Senate replacement that is of the same political party as the outgoing Senator. —  The Minority Report -
  • Alexis and Artur stepped up this past week to look after plasma-mid, the shell for smaller devices like netbooks and what not. —  Planet KDE
  • For Latin American mid-market firms using BI technology presently, Senior Sistemas, is the key Brazilian vendor and Business Objects / SAP is the major market provider in Mexico.
  • The Samsung S5200 is a slider, described as the mid-market little brother of the S8300 but without a touchscreen. —  Pocket-lint.com
  • Only FDR in 1934 and Bush in 2002 have seen their party pick up House seats in their first confrontation with the electorate in a first term mid-term. —  RutlandHerald.com
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English midd; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Alteration of amid.

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  1. from Middle English mid, midde, myd, mydde, from Anglo-Saxon mid (a nominative form not actually found; genitive masculine and neuter middes, feminine midre, middre, etc.) = Old Saxon middi = OFries. midde, medde = Middle Dutch mydde (adjective), Dutch midden (n.) = Middle Low German midde (adjective) = Old High German mitti, Middle High German G. mitte = Icelandic midhr = Swedish Danish mid (in comp.) (cf. Swedish midten = Danish midte, n.) = Goth, midjis, mid, middle; = Old Bulgarian mezhda, middle, boundary, = Polish miedza = Bohemian meze = Russian mezha, boundary (cf. Old Bulgarian mezhdu = Servian medju = Bohemian mezi = Polish miedzy = Russian mezhdu, also mezhĭ, between), from Latin medius (later ult. English medial, mediate, medium, etc., mean, moiety, mizzen, etc.) = Greek μέσος, μέσσ, σ1ος (later ult. English mesial, meson, etc.), orig. *μέθίος = Sanskrit madhya, middle. Hence midst, middle, etc.
  2. Middle English, also myd, from Anglo-Saxon mid, also in old or dial. form mith, = Old Saxon mid, midi = OFries. mith, mithe, mit = Dutch met = Middle Low German mit, in comp. mid-, Low German med, met = Old High German Middle High German G. mit = Icelandic medh = Swedish Danish med = Gothic (Moesogothic) mith, in comp. mid-, with, = Greek μετά, with, among. over, beyond, etc. (see meta-), = Zend mad, with.
  3. Short for midshipman.
 

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