middle

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Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#MIDDLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#MIDDLE middel, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#MIDDLECategory:English terms derived from Old English#MIDDLE middel (middle, centre, waist), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#MIDDLECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MIDDLE *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (middle), a diminutive of Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MIDDLE *midjō (middle, midst) (compare *midjaz (mid, middle, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MIDDLE *médʰyos (between, in the middle, middle).

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Noun

middle (plural middles)Category:English lemmas#MIDDLECategory:English nouns#MIDDLECategory:English countable nouns#MIDDLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MIDDLECategory:Pages with entries#MIDDLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MIDDLE

  1. A centre, midpoint.
    The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.Category:English terms with usage examples#MIDDLE
  2. The part between the beginning and the end.
    I woke up in the middle of the night.Category:English terms with usage examples#MIDDLE
    In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.Category:English terms with usage examples#MIDDLE
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
      Category:English terms with quotations#MIDDLE
  3. (cricketCategory:en:Cricket#MIDDLE) The middle stump.
  4. The central part of a human body; the waist.
  5. (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#MIDDLE) The middle voice.
  6. (politicsCategory:en:Politics#MIDDLE) the center of the political spectrum.
    As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.Category:English terms with usage examples#MIDDLE
  7. An essay on social or literary issues in a newspaper or magazine, originally placed between the leading articles and the reviews.

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Adjective

middle (no comparative, superlative middlemost or (colloquial, childish) middlest)Category:English lemmas#MIDDLECategory:English adjectives#MIDDLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MIDDLECategory:Pages with entries#MIDDLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MIDDLE

  1. Located in the middle; in between.
  2. Central.
  3. (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#MIDDLE) Pertaining to the middle voice.

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Verb

middle (third-person singular simple present middles, present participle middling, simple past and past participle middled)Category:English lemmas#MIDDLECategory:English verbs#MIDDLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MIDDLECategory:Pages with entries#MIDDLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MIDDLE

  1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#MIDDLE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MIDDLE) To take a middle view of. [17th–18th c.]
  2. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#MIDDLE, nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#MIDDLE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MIDDLE) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle. [19th c.]
  3. (cricketCategory:en:Cricket#MIDDLE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MIDDLE) To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.

Middle English

Adjective

middleCategory:Middle English non-lemma forms#MIDDLECategory:Middle English adjective forms#MIDDLECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#MIDDLECategory:Pages with entries#MIDDLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MIDDLE

  1. inflection of middel:
    1. weak singular
    2. strong/weak plural
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