mid·dle  (m ĭd l)
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adj.1. Equally distant from extremes or limits; central: the middle point on a line. 2. Being at neither one extreme nor the other, as of a sequence or scale; intermediate: the middle decades of the century. 3. Middlea. Of or relating to a division of geologic time between an earlier and a later division: the Middle Paleozoic. b. Of or relating to a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages: Middle Swedish. 4. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a verb form or voice in which the subject both performs and is affected by the action specified. n.1. An area or a point equidistant between extremes; a center: the middle of a circle. 2. Something intermediate between extremes: the middle of the story. 3. The middle part of the human body; the waist. 4. Logic A middle term. 5. Grammar a. The middle voice. b. A verb form in the middle voice. tr.v. mid·dled, mid·dling, mid·dles 1. To place in the middle. 2. Nautical To fold in the middle: middle the sail. Idiom: in the middle1. In a difficult situation: caught in the middle of a controversy. 2. Engaged in doing something: I'm in the middle of making dinner.
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