Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- preposition Surrounded by; amid.
- adjective Middle; central.
- adjective Being the part in the middle or center.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A midshipman. Also
middy . - An abbreviation of
amid , used in poetry. - noun An abbreviation of
middle (voice). - Middle; being the middle part or midst.
- Being between; intermediate; intervening: only in inseparable compounds: as, midrib, midriff, midwicket.
- noun Middle; midst.
- With: a preposition formerly in common use, but now entirely superseded by with. It remains only in the compound midwife.
- noun A dialectal form of
might .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Middle.
- preposition See
amid . - adjective Denoting the middle part.
- adjective Occupying a middle position; middle
- adjective (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun computing Mobile information device
- adjective Denoting the middle part.
- adjective Occupying a middle position; middle.
- adjective 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).
- preposition obsolete
With . - preposition
Amid . - noun archaic
middle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used in combination to denote the middle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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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
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+ 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you start looking at ISV-502, I use the term mid-margin diseases; blepharoconjunctivitis is a part of mid-margin disease.
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If you start looking at ISV-502, I use the term mid-margin diseases; blepharoconjunctivitis is a part of mid-margin disease.
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If you start looking at ISV-502, I use the term mid-margin diseases; blepharoconjunctivitis is a part of mid-margin disease.
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If you start looking at ISV-502, I use the term mid-margin diseases; blepharoconjunctivitis is a part of mid-margin disease.
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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.
Douglas Alexander delivers jolt to Tories as he says Labour can win
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