mid·dle /ˈmɪdəl/
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"
synset: center, centre, middle, heart, eye
2. an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
synset: middle
3. the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
synset: 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"
synset: middle
synset: middle
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"
synset: in-between, mediate, middle
2. equally distant from the extremes
synset: center, halfway, middle, 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"
synset: middle
4. between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
synset: middle
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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