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middle   (TTS Sound)

The noun middle has 4 senses

• center, centre, middle, heart, eye -- (an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm")


• middle -- (an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle)


• middle, midriff, midsection -- (the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable")


• middle -- (time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April")

The verb middle has 1 sense

• middle -- (put in the middle)

The adj middle has 4 senses

• in-between, mediate, middle -- (being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line")


• center, halfway, middle, midway -- (equally distant from the extremes)


• middle -- (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")


• middle -- (between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties")