middle
1. an area that is approximately central within some larger region (Freq. 10)
- it is in the center of town
- they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
- they were in the eye of the storm
• Syn:
center, centre, heart, eye
• Derivationally related forms:
central (for: center), centric (for: center), centrical (for: center)
• Hypernyms:
area, country
• Hyponyms:
center stage, centre stage, city center, city centre, central city,
storm center, storm centre, financial center, hub, inner city, medical center,
midfield, seat, midstream
• Instance Hyponyms:
City of London, the City
2. an intermediate part or section (Freq. 2)
- "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
• Ant:
end, beginning
• Hypernyms:
part, section, division
3. the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) (Freq. 2)
- young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable
• Syn:
midriff, midsection
• Hypernyms:
area, region
• Part Holonyms:
torso, trunk, body
4. time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period (Freq. 1)
- the middle of the war
- rain during the middle of April
• Ant:
end, beginning
• Hypernyms:
point, point in time
• Hyponyms:
deep
put in the middle
• Hypernyms:
put, set, place, pose, position, lay
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
1. being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series (Freq. 5)
- adolescence is an awkward in-between age
- in a mediate position
- the middle point on a line
• Syn:
in-between, mediate
• Similar to:
intermediate
2. equally distant from the extremes (Freq. 4)
• Syn:
center, halfway, midway
• Similar to:
central
• Derivationally related forms:
center (for: center)
3. of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages (Freq. 1)
- Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500
- Middle Gaelic
• Ant:
late, early
• Topics:
linguistics
4. between an earlier and a later period of time (Freq. 1)
- in the middle years
- in his middle thirties
• Ant:
late, early
• Similar to:
intervening, mid
• Attrubites:
timing
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