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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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... cleaner, in many of them sidewalks have been made, not always the widest to be sure, but smoothly floored with the asphaltum of Seyssel, which answers the purpose admirably; the gutters have been removed from the middle of the street to the edge of the curbstone, and lately the curbstone has been made to project over them, so that the foot-passengers may escape the bespattering from carriage-wheels which he would otherwise be sure to get in a rainy day, and there are many such days in this climate—it has ...

— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant

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— Tales of Two Countries • Alexander Kielland

... that the Pope, as a sovereign, is bound by the common law to the forms and ideas of the Middle Ages; and that in consequence of the progress of society, of the difference between the thirteenth century and the nineteenth, there is an irreconcilable discord between the Papacy and the necessities of civil government. All Catholics are bound to oppose this opinion. Only that which is of ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... at Tregarth, came all too soon. They went to the little church together, sitting among the simple fisher folk at Evensong. As they looked over one hymn book, and sang "Eternal Father, strong to save," both thought of "Davy Jones" in the middle of the hymn, and had to exchange a smile; yet with an instant added reverence of ...

— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay

... height of land to the source of the River Winnipic, or Winnipeg (meaning by such last named river the principal branch of the waters which unite in Lake Sagenagos), thence along the main stream of these waters and the middle of the several lakes through which they flow to the mouth of the Winnipic River and thence in a northerly direction through the middle of Lake Winnipic to the place of beginning." The deed is accompanied by a map intended to ...

— The Treaties of Canada with The Indians of Manitoba - and the North-West Territories • Alexander Morris

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