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Middle

adjective

Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series. Synonyms: in-between, mediate. "In a mediate position" , "The middle point on a line"

Equally distant from the extremes. Synonyms: center, halfway, midway.

Of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages. "Middle Gaelic"

Between an earlier and a later period of time. "In his middle thirties"

noun

An area that is approximately central within some larger region. Synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart. "They ran forward into the heart of the struggle" , "They were in the eye of the storm"

An intermediate part or section.

The middle area of the human torso (usually in front). Synonyms: midriff, midsection.

Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period. "Rain during the middle of April"

verb

Put in the middle.

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"Middle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Disease and accident make short work of even the most prosperous persons; death costs nothing, and the expense of a headstone is an inconsiderable trifle to the happy heir. To be suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes, is tragical enough at best; but when a man has been grudging himself his own life in the meanwhile, and saving up everything for the festival that was never to be, it becomes that hysterically moving sort ...

— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson

... silken plantains of Ceylon were mingled in rich contrast with the high fan-like foliage of the Palmyra,—that favorite tree of the luxurious bird that lights up the chambers of its nest with fire-flies.[188]. In the middle of the lawn where the pavilion stood there was a tank surrounded by small mango-trees on the clear cold waters of which floated multitudes of the beautiful red lotus,[189] while at a distance stood the ruins of a strange and awful- looking tower which ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... this murder now!" said Mr. Berners, standing in the middle of the room and speaking to the ...

— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... the means of travel and transportation defective. With few roads, and commerce undeveloped, there is little intercommunication, little culture, little civilization. This was the condition of Scotland as late as the middle of the eighteenth century. (Buckle.) England had some external commerce as early as the thirteenth century (Hallam), but did not send a ship of her own into the Mediterranean till the fifteenth. (Robertson.) Think of the difference ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... rival's cause had all submitted,—her brother, Robert of Gloucester, Brian Fitz Count, Miles of Gloucester, Payne Fitz John, the Bishop of Salisbury, and his great ministerial family. The powerful house of Beaumont, the earls of Warwick and of Leicester, who held almost a kingdom in middle England, promised to be as faithful to the new sovereign as it had been to earlier ones. Even Matilda herself and her husband Geoffrey seemed to have abandoned effort, having met with no better success in their ...

— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams

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