middle

Plural: middles

Noun

• an area that is approximately central within some larger region
• an intermediate part or section; - Aristotle
  • "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"
• the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
• time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
  • "the middle of the war"
  • "rain during the middle of April"
• A centre, midpoint.
• The part between the beginning and the end.
• The middle stump.
• The central part of a human body; the waist.
• The middle voice.
• the center of the political spectrum.

Verb

Verb Forms: middled, middling, middles

• To place or position something in the center.
• put in the middle
• To take a middle view of.
• To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.
• To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.

Adjective Satellite

• being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
  • "the middle point on a line"
• equally distant from the extremes

Adjective

• of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
  • "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"
  • "Middle Gaelic"
• between an earlier and a later period of time
  • "in the middle years"
  • "in his middle thirties"

Adj

• Located in the middle; in between.
• Central.
• Pertaining to the middle voice.

Examples

• He tried to MIDDLE his high-scoring letter to maximize its value.
• I woke up in the middle of the night.
• In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.
• The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.

Synonyms

center, centre, eye, halfway, heart, in-between, mediate, midriff, midsection, midway, midpoint, midst

Antonyms

beginning, early, end, late

Related Words

mid-, middle-, middling

Anagrams of middle