Middle

/ˈmɪdl̩/ · noun

Meaning

A centre, midpoint..

Definitions by Sense

1. A centre, midpoint.
2. The part between the beginning and the end.
3. (cricket) The middle stump.
4. The central part of a human body; the waist.
5. (grammar) The middle voice.
6. (politics) the center of the political spectrum.
7. An essay on social or literary issues in a newspaper or magazine, originally placed between the leading articles and the reviews.
8. Located in the middle; in between.

Example Sentences

The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.

I woke up in the middle of the night.

In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.

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.

If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.

As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.

‘Did you see the Spec. had a middle on “Rural Tenacities” last week. That was all Huckley.’

the middle point

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Word Forms

• middles
• myddle
• middlemost
• middlest
• middling
• middled

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