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Meaning of middle

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  middle
      adj 1: 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" [syn:
             {in-between}, {mediate}, {middle}]
      2: equally distant from the extremes [syn: {center(a)},
         {halfway}, {middle(a)}, {midway}]
      3: 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"
         [ant: {early}, {late}]
      4: between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle
         years"; "in his middle thirties" [ant: {early}, {late}]
      n 1: 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" [syn: {center}, {centre}, {middle}, {heart},
           {eye}]
      2: an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has
         beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle [ant: {beginning},
         {end}]
      3: the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young
         American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
         [syn: {middle}, {midriff}, {midsection}]
      4: time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period;
         "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
         [ant: {beginning}, {commencement}, {end}, {ending}, {first},
         {get-go}, {kickoff}, {offset}, {outset}, {showtime}, {start},
         {starting time}]
      v 1: put in the middle

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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