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KK Pronunciation

〔 ˋmIdL 〕

Pronunciation

〔 ˊmidl 〕


Overview of noun middle

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")


Overview of verb middle

The verb middle has 1 sense


  • middle -- (put in the middle)


Overview of adj 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")