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middle

 
Adjective middle has 4 senses
  1. 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"
    Antonym: first (indirect, via last, intermediate)
    Antonym: last (indirect, via intermediate, first)
  2. center, halfway, middle, midway - equally distant from the extremes
    Antonym: peripheral (indirect, via central)
  3. 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"
    Antonyms:
    late, Modern, New, early, Old
  4. middle - between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
    Antonyms:
    late, advanced, ripe, after-hours, latish, posthumous, early, aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial, advance, beforehand, archean, archaean, archeozoic, archaeozoic, azoic, earlier, earliest, earlyish, matutinal, untimely, previous, premature, proterozoic, proto, wee
Noun middle has 4 senses
  1. 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"
    --1 is a kind of area, country
    --1 has particulars:
     center stage, centre stage; city center, city centre, central city; storm center, storm centre; financial center; hub; inner city; medical center; midfield; seat; City of London, the City; midstream
    Derived form: verb middle1
  2. middle - an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
    --2 is a kind of
    part, section, division
    Antonyms: end, beginning
    Derived form: verb middle1
  3. middle, midriff, midsection - the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
    --3 is a kind of area, region
    --3 is a part of torso, trunk, body
  4. middle - time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
    --4 is a kind of
    point, point in time
    Antonyms: end, ending, beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset
    --4 has particulars: deep
Verb middle has 1 sense
  1. middle - put in the middle
    --1 is one way to
    put, set, place, pose, position, lay
    Derived forms: noun middle2, noun middle1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
middle-class middle-ear deafness middle-eastern middle-eight middle-income middle-level middle-of-the-road middle-school middle middle age middle ages middle asia middle atlantic middle buster middle c middle cerebral artery middle cerebral vein

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