Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Middle; central.
- adj. Being the part in the middle or center: in the mid Pacific.
- adj. 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.
- prep. Surrounded by; amid: mid smoke and flame.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Middle; being the middle part or midst. The monosyllable mid, properly an adjective, is so closely connected with its noun as to assume often the aspect of a prefix; it is therefore often joined to its noun with a hyphen. The real relation, however, is nearly always the normal one of adjective and noun.
- Being between; intermediate; intervening: only in inseparable compounds: as, midrib, midriff, midwicket.
- n. Middle; midst.
- With: a preposition formerly in common use, but now entirely superseded by with. It remains only in the compound midwife.
- n. A dialectal form of might.
- n. A midshipman. Also middy.
- n. An abbreviation of middle (voice).
- An abbreviation of amid, used in poetry.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic middle
- n. computing Mobile information device
- adj. Denoting the middle part.
- adj. Occupying a middle position; middle.
- adj. linguistics Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld).
- prep. obsolete With.
- prep. Amid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Denoting the middle part.
- adj. Occupying a middle position; middle.
- adj. (Phon.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the
high and thelow ; -- said of certain vowel sounds. SeeGuide to Pronunciation , §§ 10, 11. - n. obsolete Middle.
- prep. See amid.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. used in combination to denote the middle
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old English mid ("with, in conjunction with, in company with, together with, into the presence of, through, by means of, by, among, in, at (time), in the sight of, opinion of", preposition), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰi-, *meta (“with”). Cognate with North Frisian mits ("with"), Dutch met ("with"), German mit ("with"), Danish med ("with"), Icelandic með ("with"), Ancient Greek μετά (metá, "among, between, with"), Albanian me ("with, together"), Sanskrit (smat, "together, at the same time"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English midd; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots.Alteration of amid. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“+ Ne beo in hire naþing iwrat bute chirche bisocnie ⁊ beode to criste ⁊ eoten ⁊ dri {n} ken mid griðe ⁊ mid {80} gledscipe.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“Þa ferde he mid micel færd into engle [la] nd. ⁊ wan castles. ⁊ te king ferde agenes hi {m} mid {180} micel mare ferd. ⁊ þoþwæthere fuhtten hi noht. oc ferden þe ærceb {iscop} ⁊ te wise me ` n´ betwux heo {m}. ⁊ makede ð sahte ð te king sculde ben lauerd ⁊ king wile he liuede.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“The term mid-size terror bird sounds kind of bizarre at first, as though terror birds, whatever they might be, come in a range of sizes, all of them a bit scary - sort of like coffee options at Starbucks.”
“Although the term mid-cap may be a stretch for a company with a market cap of $8 billion, I don't think that Safeway is a large enough company to accurately be described as a large-cap.”
“One of the finest achievements occurred the other night with Celtic defying history and winning a UEFA Champions League tie against a well-oiled Russian team challenging for the title mid-way through their season.”
“Instead he calls for the party to revive the spirit of what he calls the "mid nineties modernisers":For those mid nineties modernisers, making the party comfortable was never enough.”
The Guardian: Douglas Alexander delivers jolt to Tories as he says Labour can win
“The next type of paid web host is what I refer to as a mid-range web host, meaning that they offer prices and service that will satisfy the majority of web sites out there.”
“What was Tropical Depression Alpha kind of merged in with Wilma a little bit, but Wilma and what we call a mid-latitude low pressure system, which is really going to turn into a Nor'easter, basically, they're going to maintain their separate identities.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mid’.
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MUSIC - jazz
funky, pedal, bebop, rap, mix, sub, mid, rag, ECM, bpm, bop, Afro and 437 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Prefixes
a-, ab, abs, ambi, ante, anti, aqu, aqua, arch, astro, auto, bene and 71 more...
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Words Made Of Roman Numerals
dividivi, cimicic, civic, civil, idic, dill, livid, mild, ilicic, vivid, clim, imidic and 43 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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