middle (
http://definr.com/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]
2: equally distant from the extremes [syn:
center(a),
halfway,
middle(a),
midway]
3: (linguistics) 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:
late,
early]
4: between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the
middle years"; "in his middle thirties" [ant:
late,
early]
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,
heart,
eye]
2: an intermediate part or section: "A whole is that which has
beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle [ant:
end,
beginning]
3: the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) [syn:
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:
end,
beginning]
v : put in the middle