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Definition: Middle |
MiddleAdjective1. 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". 2. Equally distant from the extremes. 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". 4. Between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties". Noun1. 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". 2. An intermediate part or section: "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle. 3. The middle area of the human torso (usually in front). 4. Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period: "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April". Verb1. Put in the middle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "middle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Industry | Framework of the watch case. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Bacon side without the ham and the shoulder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Pertaining to a segment of geologic time intermediate between Late and Early, or to rocks intermediate between Upper and Lower. Thus, rocks of the Middle Jurassic Series were formed during the Middle Jurassic Epoch.CF:Upper; Lower. (references) |
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The Middle East, as a geographic entity, comprises the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. Also called southwestern Asia.The Middle East includes Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
"Middle East" is still not a completely settled term and in some documents this area can also be referred to as the Near East. In some references, "Near East" also includes northeastern Africa. Moreover, the list of countries discussed in the context of Middle East is occasionally extended due to strong cultural, economic and political relationships to include such countries as Morocco, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and even Greece.
The region is well known for its huge stock of crude oil and for being the birthplace and spritual centre of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The Middle East is a subregion of Africa-Eurasia.
See also Levant, History of Levant, Mesopotamia, Orientalism
History
The Middle East is the earliest area in the world to see the development of civilization in Mesopotamia around 2400 BC. The Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians and others built important states. Not lon afterwards an even more advanced civilization developed in Egypt.The first Empire to dominate the region was the Persian Empire, until it was defeated by Alexander the Great who swept through most of the Middle East. The Roman Empire also gained a large presence in the eastern areas, and it was replaced by the Byzantine Empire. While in the east the Sasanian Empire replaced that of the Persians.
The rise of Islam beginning in the year 610 was one of the most important turning points in the history of the Middle East. The Arabs came to dominate almost the entire region, supplanting many of the original cultures. The great Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates ruled almost all the Middle East.
After Arabian rule centred in Baghdad was ended by a combination if internal decline and external invasion by the Mongols in 1258. The Mongols did not last long in the region and by the 16th century the area was under control of the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire in Persia. The empires lasted for many centuries.
The rise of the economies of western Europe began to transform the region in the 19th century and the region began to fall prey to European colonialism. Egypt was seized by the British in 1882. When the Ottoman Empire finally collapsed after the First World War the Middle East was divided between Britain and France. After the Second World War most of the Middle East was regranted independence.
Since that time the Middle East has fallen behind the rest of the world economically, and has also been plagued with an ongoing conflict between Arabs and Israel. In 1979 the Safavid Empire finally fell to an Islamic revolution in Iran
Transportation
Transportation in the Middle East throughout history was cheaper than in most other areas of the world. While the region lacks rivers, the rivers that did exist, such as the Nile and the Tigris and Euphrates, linked large sections of the population. More importantly, however, was the camel. This hardy and efficient pack animal gave the Middle East a comparative advantage in trade for many centuries.
In part because of this, but mostly because of the impoverished nature of the regional governments railways came very late to the Middle East. In 1883 there were still no railways anywhere outside of Egypt. In those areas that were under European control, such as Egypt after 1882, there was no question of European construction and control of the railways. In areas still under the control of the Ottoman Empire Europeans were also selected to build railways. The area lacked skilled engineers and indigenous efforts were often plagued with technical problems. The most egregious example of this is the Mudanya to Bursa line that was built at too steep a grade for it to be usable by locomotives, and the whole project became a complete waste of resources. Perhaps even more important was a lack of investment capital in the empire, and money for the railway projects was thus raised on the financial markets in Paris, London, and Berlin.
The standard pattern of Middle Eastern railway building was to have the government grant a European company a monopoly over a certain route for a certain period of time. Often added to these concessions were financial guarantees promising that the government would make up a certain portion of any financial loses, if the railways succeeded in carrying a certain annual tonnage. The European companies would raise the large amounts of capital needed to fund the railways on the financial markets in the Western European capitals. There were of course many variations to this pattern. Some railways were built almost entirely by Middle Eastern capital. There is also the Hijaz line that was funded by Muslims from around the world. All these lines still relied upon European engineers, however. In Egypt, while the railways were constructed by European groups, they were managed by a central government organization, but Europeans played an important role there as well.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Middle East."
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Middle English is the name given to the English language roughly from the 11th to the 15th centuries: after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror in 1066 and before the introduction of the printing press. It was the language of the peasant and the butcher, not of the king and the nobles, who spoke French. It was the language of Geoffrey Chaucer.English before 1000 is called Old English or Anglo-Saxon; after 1500 comes the era of modern English.
History
1000
When the Vikings conquered England, they had also conquered northern France and became gallicized (as in English they became anglicized). In 1066, led by William the Conqueror, these gallicized Vikings, the Normans, attacked, conquered, and ruled England (and still ruled northern France). England became more closely tied politically to feudal western Europe, and became trilingual: French became the language of the king and the nobles, Latin the language of the priest and professor, and English the language of the people.
- Syððan wæs geworden þæt he ferde þurh þa ceastre and þæt castel: godes rice prediciende and bodiende. and hi twelfe mid. And sume wif þe wæron gehælede of awyrgdum gastum: and untrumnessum: seo magdalenisce maria ofþære seofan deoflu uteodon: and iohanna chuzan wif herodes gerefan: and susanna and manega oðre þe him of hyra spedum þenedon;
- -- Translation of Luke 8.1-3 from the New Testament
This profoundly changed the English language. This is attributable to the introduction into England not just of a new language, Norman French, but of new political structures which relied upon that language. Although it is possible to overestimate the degree of cultural shock which 1066 represented (especially given the strong Anglo-Norman connections under both Edward and Harold), the removal of the top levels of an English-speaking political and ecclesiastical hierarchy, and their replacement with a French-speaking one, both confirmed the position of French as a language of polite discourse and vernacular literature and removed the standard (Wessex) dialect of Old English and its role in education. Although Old English was by no means as standardised as modern English, its written forms were less subject to broad dialect variations than post-Conquest English.
Even now, after a thousand years, the Norman class-system is still visible in English: the words for common things are derived from Old English, for example: pig, cow, dog sheep farmer house.
The words for things used by the rich and the ruling class are derived from middle French, for example: pork, beef, court, judge, jury, parliament, honor, courage, rich and study.
Archer and fletcher are special cases. Although there is no particular reason why we kept the English version-archer and the French word fletcher has fallen, it is more than likely the archers themselves used the word 'archer' and the generals used the word 'fletcher'.
Even the word for the less wealthy classes came from the mouth of the francophone: poor.
The triplicate vocabulary of English comes from this Norman period. For instance, English has three words meaning roughly "of or relating to a king": kingly from Old English, royal from French and regal from Latin. Each carries its own nuance.
The Old English kingly brings to mind a fabled king; the French royal, the ample pomp of a medieval court; and the Latin regal, the noble expression and manner of a king, an abstract king.
Deeper changes occurred in the grammar. Bit by bit, the wealthy and the government anglicized again, though French remained the dominant language of literature and law for several centuries. The new English didn't look the same as the old. Old English had a complex system of inflectional endings, but these were gradually lost and simplified in the dialects of spoken English, and soon the change spread to its increasingly diverse written forms. This loss of case-endings can again be traced back to the loss of written standards for English, and not just to French-speaking occupation. English remained, after all, the language of the majority, but more a spoken than a written one, and certainly not a literary one until, arguably, the fourteenth century, as the Chancery Standard introduced a greater deal of conformity in English spelling, and writers like Chaucer and Gower began to expand the range and word-stock of the language (largely through French and Latin borrowing) in an attempt to establish it as a medium capable of serious literature.
1300
After standardization of the language, English began to appear almost in its modern form:
- And it is don, aftirward Jesus made iourne bi cites & castelis prechende & euangelisende þe rewme of god, & twelue wiþ hym & summe wymmen þat weren helid of wicke spiritis & sicnesses, marie þat is clepid maudeleyn, of whom seuene deuelis wenten out & Jone þe wif off chusi procuratour of eroude, & susanne & manye oþere þat mynystreden to hym of her facultes
- -- Luke 8.1-3
Construction: Key points
With its simplified case-ending system, Middle English is closer to modern English than its pre-Conquest equivalent. The caveat, of course, is the necessary instability of the term 'Middle English', which encompasses a number of dialects and regions over a 500-year period. Some general principles, though, may be observed.
1. Nouns
Despite losing the slightly more complex system of inflexional endings, Middle English retains two separate noun-ending patterns from Old English. Compare, for example, the early Modern English words 'engel' (angel) and 'nome' (name):
sing. nom/acc: engel nome gen: engles* nome dat: engle nome plur. nom/acc: engles nomen gen: engle(ne)** nomen dat: engle(s) nomenThe strong -s plural form has survived into Modern English, while the weak -n form is rare (oxen, children, brethren). These noun rules themselves break down significantly, and in later Middle English, as in Modern English, syntax and prepositions govern the behaviour of nouns more than case endings.* cf. Sawles Warde (The protection *of the soul*) **cf. Ancrene Wisse (The Anchoresses' Guide)
2. Verbs
As a general rule (and all these rules are general), the first person singular of present tense verbs ends in -e (ich here), the second person in -(e)st (þou liest), and the third person in -eþ (he comeþ). This varies according to dialect and time. -e and -en often represent the subjunctive singular and plural, while the imperative frequently has no ending in the singular and an -eþ suffix in the plural (listeþ, lordynges).
In the past tense, weak verbs are formed by an -ed(e), -d(e) or -t(e) ending. These, without their case endings, also form past participles, together with past-participle prefixes derived from the old English ge-: i-, y- and sometimes bi-. Strong verbs form their past tense by changing their stem vowel (e.g. winden -> wounden), as in Modern English.
3. Pronouns
Post-Conquest English inherits its pronouns from Old English:
singular plural First Person nom. ich, I we acc. me us gen. min, mi ure dat. me us Second Person nom. þu 3e acc. þe 3ow, ow gen. þin 3ower, ower dat. þe 3ow, ow Third Person masc. neut. fem. pl.First and second pronouns survive largely unchanged, with only minor spelling variations. In the third person, the masculine accusative singular became 'him'. The feminine form developed into 'she', but unsteadily - 'ho' remains in some areas for a long time. The lack of a strong standard written form between the eleventh and the fifteenth century makes these changes hard to map.nom. he hit ho, heo, hi hi, ho, heo acc. hine hit hi, heo hi gen. his his hire, hore hore, heore dat. him him hire hom, heom
Speaking Middle English
English before about the mid-sixteenth century follows European vowel pronunciation:
'a' as in modern 'father' long 'e' as in modern 'there' short 'e' as in modern 'egg' 'i'/vowel 'y' as in modern 'see' long 'o' as the oa in modern 'oar' short 'o' as in modern 'on' 'u' as in modern 'do'Diphthongs are generally pronounced as close but separate vowels (e.g. Troilus).
'r' sounds typically have a light roll.
Generally, all letters in Middle English words are pronounced. (Silent letters in Modern English come from pronunciation shifts but continued spelling conventions.) Therefore 'knight' is pronounced 'k-n-i-g-h-t' (with 'gh' as the 'ch' in German 'nacht' or Scottish 'loch'), not 'nite'.
Final 'e's are pronounced, unstressed - they do not, as in Modern English, affect pronunciation of central vowels. (In Modern English the 'e' changes the short 'i' in 'fin' to a long 'i' in 'fine'. In Middle English f-i-n-e would be pronounced something like 'feene'.) The exception to this is where the next word begins with a vowel, or sometimes an 'i' or an 'h', in which case the final -e elides and is unpronounced. All this is important for making sense of metre in Middle English verse, e.g.
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; (Chaucer, Canterbury Tales)Words like 'straunge' are disyllabic. 'Palmeres' is trisyllabic. (As you can hear from a read-through, the emphasis is more on regular stress patterns than on absolute syllabic regularity.) Final 'e's are pronounced in 'straunge', but not in 'kowthe', where the next letter is the 'i' of 'in'. The final 'e' on 'ferne' is pronounced this time, despite being before an 'h'.
The vast differences between Old English and Middle English (and indeed Modern English) have led some to claim English is a glorified creole. See Is Middle English a Pidgin? for a discussion.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Middle English."
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Middle Pomerania is a geographical and historical region in the middle of Pomerania in northern Poland, between Western and Eastern Pomerania. Sometimes it was considered part of Western Pomerania.Major cities: Koszalin, Slupsk, Kolobrzeg, Szczecinek, Darlowo
Administrative divisions:
See also: Dukes of Pomerania
- 1121-1238 Duchy of Slawno
- 1238-1317 divided
- 1317-1654 part of Duchy of Pomerania (districts: Duchy of Kashubia, Duchy of Vandalia, Principality of Cammin)
- 1654-1815 part of Brandenburg-Prussia (districts: Duchy of Kashubia, Duchy of Vandalia, Principality of Cammin)
- 1815-1945 District of Koszalin, part of Prussian Province of Pomerania
- 1945-1950 part of Szczecin Voivodship
- 1950-1975 Koszalin Voivodship
- 1975-1998 Koszalin Voivodship, Slupsk Voivodship
- after 1999 divided between Pomeranian Voivodship and West Pomeranian Voivodship
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Middle school and junior high school covers a period of education that overlaps primary education and secondary education. The terms are used in different ways in different countries.Taiwanese middle schools (3-year) were originally called junior high school, or chuzhong (初級中學, 初中). However, in August 1968, they were renamed to middle schools, or guozhong (國民中學, 國中) when they become free of charge and compulsory. Private middle school nowdays are still called chuzhong. Taiwanese middle schools are attended normally by those older than twelve. Accompanied with the switch from junior high to middle school was the cancelation of entrance examination needed to enter senior high school.
In the United Kingdom, some English Local Education Authorities introduced Middle Schools to cover Years 4 to 7. However these arrangements have generally been dropped because the standardisation enforced by the English National Curriculum.
In the United States, middle schools generally include grades 6 to 8 while junior high schools include grades 7 to 9.
- See also secondary education in the United States
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| MID | English | Middle East | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MiddleSynonyms: center(a) (adj), halfway (adj), in-between (adj), mediate (adj), middle(a) (adj), midway (adj), center (n), centre (n), eye (n), heart (n), midriff (n), midsection (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: early (adj), late (adj), beginning (n), end (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Centrality | Noun: centrality, centricalness, center; middle; focus. |
Adverb: middle; midst; centrally; Adjective: | |
Adjective: central, centrical; middle; azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric; middlemost; rachidian; spinal, vertebral. | |
Compromise | Noun: compromise, commutation, composition; middle term, mezzo termine; compensation; abatement of differences, adjustment, mutual concession. |
Mean | Noun: mean, average; median, mode; balance, medium, mediocrity, generality; golden mean; (mid-course); middle; compromise; middle course, middle state; neutrality. |
Adjective: mean, intermediate; middle; average; neutral. | |
Mediocrity | Noun: moderate circumstances, average circumstances; respectability; middle classes; mediocrity; golden mean; (mid-course), (moderation). |
Mid-course | Verb: keep in a middle course, preserve a middle course, preserve an even course, go straight; (direct). |
Noun: middle course, midcourse; mean; middle; juste milieu, mezzo termine, golden mean, | |
Middle | Noun: middle, midst, mediety, mean; medium, middle term; center; mid-course; mezzo termine; juste milieu; halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos; nucleus, nucleolus. |
Adverb: in the middle; midway, halfway; midships, amidships, in medias res. | |
Adjective: middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average; middlemost, midmost; mediate; intermediate; (interjacent); equidistant; central; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric. | |
Narrowness Thinness | Middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass; ravine. |
School | Day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Middle |
| English words defined with "middle": deep middle cerebral vein ♦ in the middle ♦ Middle East, Middle States. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "middle": Cholesteatoma, Middle Ear ♦ Hypothalamus, Middle ♦ middle cut, Middle Ear Ventilation, middle price, middle rate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "middle": Slave. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Middle" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Pidgin English (middle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Here? In the middle of nowhere (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) You expect me to believe that scantily clad, in the arms of another man, in the middle of the night, inside an elephant you were rehearsing for a play (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) This is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman) How would we have, like, just made a campsite in the middle of three piles of rocks, just by coincidence (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez) I could shoot you in the middle of Mardi Gras, and they can't touch me. (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) | |
Lyrics | We'd meet in the middle (Meet In The Middle; performing artist: Diamond Rio) Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride, (The Middle; performing artist: Jimmy Eat World) Work The Middle, Work The Middle (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah) With your kitty in the middle of the swing ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith) Games people play in the middle of the night (Games People Play; performing artist: Alan Parsons Project) | |
Clever | A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. (references; author: Mark Twain) Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. (references; author: unknown) The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. (references; author: unknown) You've reached middle age when the phone rings on Saturday night you pray it isn't for you. (references; author: unknown) Middle age starts when you have been warned to slow down, not by a motorcycle cop, but by your doctor. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Man in the Middle (1972) Middle of the Night (1959) The House in the Middle (1954) Review of the Royal Netherlands Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (1898) Life in the Middle (2001) | |
Song Titles | The Middle (performing artist: Jimmy Eat World) Stuck in the Middle with You (performing artist: Stealers Wheeler) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | In the middle of the photo stands a pacific yew tree. Photo was taken in Mt. Hood National Forest. Credit: Nancy Lankford (photographer). |  | From on overhead angle, a plate of potatoes and green beans, a bowl of tomatoes and yellow peppers with sour cream dip and a tossed salad are shown on a white tablecloth. Across the middle of the table, grey letters read: "Include 3-5 servings of vegetables daily". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" April 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever is a tickborne hemorrhagic fever with documented person-to-person transmission, and a case-fatality rate of approximately 30%. This widespread virus has been found in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and eastern Europe. Credit: CDC. |  | West Nile virus is a flavivirus commonly found in Africa, West Asia, and the Middle East. It is closely related to St. Louis encephalitis virus found in the United States. The virus can infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses and some other mammals. Credit: CDC. |
 | Global images taken by the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2on the Hubble Space Telescope. The top image is the Valles Marineris region(centered on roughly 60 degrees longitude), the middle image is the Tharsis region(centered on roughly 160 degrees longitude), and the bottom image is theSyrtis Major region (centered on roughly 270 degrees longitude).These three images are individual frames from one press release photograph. Credit: NASA. |  | Middle East. Credit: NASA. |
 | Artillery survey crew of 10th Marines with 3 captured Japanese battle flags Survey crew caught in middle of huge Japanese banzai charge at Battle of Saipan Robert A. Earle, in center front, commanding officer of survey crew. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Carl Aslakson in middle while in Brazil Meeting with Brazilian officials prior to survey work on upper Amazon River Aslakson with Army Air 311th Air Photo Wing. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Alijos Rocks in the middle of nowhere off the Mexican Coast. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A muskrat hut in a middle Patuxent river marsh. Observed at a very low tide. Early in the year so marsh grasses aren't too tall yet. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Empty road in the middle of th" by P-O Sedin Commentary: "Beutiful empty swedish road in the middle of the night." | "Old Shack" by Frank Gibson Commentary: "A run down shack in the middle of a pasture." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Fast arpeggios and low drum hits with a very thick gassy middle. | | A string instrument playing in a Middle Eastern style or manner. |
| A single bassoon note played in the middle register. | | A middle rage single clarinet note. |
| Low-toned, dull, hollow sound; short, low tone of a cow bell being struck by a drumstick one time; the middle bell on an agogo. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. |
Elliot Paul. | Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. |
Francis Bacon | Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. |
John Adams | In politics the middle way is none at all. |
Oscar Wilde | The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. |
Ovid | You will go most safely in the middle. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | All great men come out of the middle classes. |
Voltaire | They [the British] are like their own beer: froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And as different degrees of industry were apt to give men possessions in different proportions, so this invention of money gave them the opportunity to continue and enlarge them: for supposing an island, separate from all possible commerce with the rest of the world, wherein there were but an hundred families, but there were sheep, horses and cows, with other useful animals, wholsome fruits, and land enough for corn for a hundred thousand times as many, but nothing in the island, either because of its commonness, or perishableness, fit to supply the place of money; what reason could any one have there to enlarge his possessions beyond the use of his family, and a plentiful supply to its consumption, either in what their own industry produced, or they could barter for like perishable, useful commodities, with others? Where there is not some thing, both lasting and scarce, and so valuable to be hoarded up, there men will not be apt to enlarge their possessions of land, were it never so rich, never so free for them to take: for I ask, what would a man value ten thousand, or an hundred thousand acres of excellent land, ready cultivated, and well stocked too with cattle, in the middle of the inland parts of America, where he had no hopes of commerce with other parts of the world, to draw money to him by the sale of the product? It would not be worth the enclosing, and we should see him give up again to the wild common of nature, whatever was more than would supply the conveniencies of life to be had there for him and his family. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In the portion of Upper Silesia included within the boundaries described below, the inhabitants will be called upon to indicate by a vote whether they wish to be attached to Germany or to Poland: starting from the northern point of the salient of the old province of Austrian Silesia situated about 8 kilometres east of Neustadt, the former frontier between Germany and Austria to its junction with the boundary between the Kreise of Leobschutz and Ratibor; thence in a northerly direction to a point about 2 kilometres south-east of Katscher: the boundary between the Kreise of Leobschutz and Ratibor; thence in a south-easterly direction to a point on the course of the Oder immediately south of the Ratibor-Oderberg railway: a line to be fixed on the ground passing south of Kranowitz; thence the old boundary between Germany and Austria, then the old boundary between Germany and Russia to its junction with the administrative boundary between Posnania and Upper Silesia; thence this administrative boundary to its junction with the administrative boundary between Upper and Middle Silesia, thence westwards to the point where the administrative boundary turns in an acute angle to the south-east about 3 kilometres north-west of Simmenau: the boundary between Upper and Middle Silesia; then in a westerly direction to a point to be fixed on the ground about 2 kilometres east of Lorzendorf: a line to be fixed on the ground passing north of Klein Hennersdorf: thence southwards to the point where the boundary between Upper and Middle Silesia cuts the Stadtel-Karlsruhe road: a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Hennersdorf, Polkowitz, Noldau, Steinersdorf, and Dammer, and east of Strehlitz, Nassadel, Eckersdorf, Schwirz, and Stadtel; thence the boundary between Upper and Middle Silesia to its junction with the eastern boundary of the Kreis of Falkenberg; then the eastern boundary of the Kreis of Falkenberg to the point of the salient which is 3 kilometres east of Puschine; thence to the northern point of the salient of the old province of Austrian Silesia situated about 8 kilometres east of Neustadt: a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Zulz. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He did not suppose they could be damp now, in the middle of the day. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Peering about in this way, I happened to notice a plant with rounded leaves, and with queer little holes cut in the middle of several of them |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. |
Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | Somewhere not too far from here, toward the middle of the island, there may have been heaven on earth, but hell had certainly set up business on its porch |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These waggons kept the middle of the street |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He stood still in the middle of the roadway, his heart clamouring against his bosom in a tumult |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma got in the middle again |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I let my shirt down to my waist, and drew up the bottom, fastening it like a girdle about my middle to hide my nakedness |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | By the middle of April, for I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Middle age. It’s hard to believe. (references) | |
A useful test of middle ear function is called tympanometry. (references) | ||
A few months ago I started waking up in the middle of the night sweating. (references) | ||
Business | The ones in the middle are really struggling. (references) | |
Young people and middle aged people listen more than others. (references) | ||
These public bowling facilities are accessible to the middle class. (references) | ||
Children | Belarus | In Minsk only 11 of the 242 middle schools taught in the Belarusian language. (references) |
Spain | Approximately 60 percent of Romani children do not complete primary school, and only very few progress to middle school and beyond. (references) | |
Lebanon | Education is free in public schools and compulsory until the age of 12. However, public schools generally are inadequate, and the cost of private education is a significant problem for the middle and lower classes. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Greece | An additional 150 attended 2 bilingual middle schools with a religious curriculum. (references) |
Algeria | Satellite-dish antennas are widespread, and millions of citizens have access to European and Middle Eastern broadcasting. (references) | |
Syria | The media continued to broaden somewhat their reporting on regional developments, including the Middle East peace process. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | Figures are end-month BI middle rates. (references) |
Egypt | Major markets--E.U., U.S., Middle East, Japan. (references) | |
South Korea | Major suppliers--Japan, U.S., European Union, Middle East. (references) | |
Human Rights | Somalia | On July 24, four cars hit landmines on the road linking the Lower Juba and Middle Juba regions. (references) |
Libya | As part of the campaign to implement the Purge Law, the wealth of the middle class and affluent has been targeted as well. (references) | |
Yemen | However, persons suspected of crimes in some instances are taken from their homes in the middle of the night, without search warrants. (references) | |
Minorities | Nigeria | Both Muslims and Christians are found in large numbers in the Middle Belt. (references) |
Iraq | In 2000 Christians reported feeling caught in the middle of intra-Kurdish fighting. (references) | |
Trinidad and Tobago | The private sector is dominated by Indo-Trinidadians and persons of European, Middle Eastern, or Asian descent. (references) | |
Political Economy | Panama | Their bases remain the middle and upper classes inside Panama City. (references) |
Oman | Oman has long been an active participant in the Middle East Peace Process. (references) | |
Poland | Resistance has also come from often-bloated middle management in such enterprises. (references) | |
Political Rights | Colombia | There are credible reports that the paramilitaries are trying to coerce congressional candidates they do not support from running for office, especially in the Middle Magdalena region. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Feedback is filtered through private personal channels and has affected various policy issues, including the Middle East peace process, unemployment of young Saudi men, and the construction of new infrastructure. (references) | |
Trade | Azerbaijan | Both the IBA and the HSBC British Bank of Middle East have correspondent relationships with U.S. banks. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Great pizzas, burgers, Middle Eastern fast food and delicious ice cream. (references) |
Ghana | They provide service to Accra from Europe, other parts of Africa and the Middle East. (references) | |
Jordan | Jordan has excellent air connections with other Middle Eastern countries, Europe and Asia. (references) | |
Women | Micronesia | Women receive equal pay for equal work and are well represented in the lower and middle ranks of government. (references) |
Tunisia | Women constitute 37 percent of the civil service, employed primarily at the middle or lower levels in the fields of health, education, and social affairs. (references) | |
South Africa | The Office of the Status of Women reported in 2000 that "although gender discrimination has been removed from labor laws, this has not been sufficient to achieve equality in women's participation in the paid labor force." According to data supplied in 2000 by employers with 50 or more employees, women hold 13 percent of all top management positions, 20 percent of all senior management positions, and 43 percent of professional and middle management positions. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | Some teenage prostitutes come from middle class families. (references) |
Bangladesh | Some children also are trafficked to the Middle East to be used as camel jockeys. (references) | |
Lithuania | Women from Lithuania are trafficked mostly to Western Europe and the Middle East. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Beth Veglahn | Well, he was at work, and I decided enough was enough. And a friend of mine and my brother helped me move out in the middle of the night. |
Bill Maher | If you celebrate Christmas religiously, folks, you pray to a young man from the Middle East who today probably would get stopped at the airport. |
Dennis Miller | I've noticed that in the Middle East when they burn the American Flag, they aren't even using real flags. |
Lisa Beamer | Morgan's Todd's middle name and Kay's my middle name. So we took the best of both of us and put them together in her name and in the person that she is. |
Queen Noor al-Hussein of Jordan | The coverage in the United States is radically different from the coverage of this conflict in Europe and the Middle East. |
Rush Limbaugh | Perpetual negotiations, diplomatic half-measures, or land for peace deals will not bring peace to the Middle East. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | This accession to the profits of agriculture in the middle and western portions of our Union is accidental and temporary. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Hardworking Americans caught in the middle can really use that kind of extra cash. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In addition, the United States joined with other nations to provide relief to refugees in country of first asylum in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | From the Middle East to southern Africa to Geneva, American diplomats are taking the initiative to make peace and lower arms levels. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We are a middle class country. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | And we know that Iraq is continuing to finance terror and gives assistance to groups that use terrorism to undermine Middle East peace. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Middle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 48.63% of the time. "Middle" is used about 9,825 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 48.63% | 4,778 | 2,048 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 29.92% | 2,940 | 3,174 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.43% | 2,106 | 4,126 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9,825 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "middle". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hazar-hatticon | N/A | Biblical | Middle village |
| Tabrimon | N/A | Biblical | The middle |
| Tochen | N/A | Biblical | Middle |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
| |||
Expressions using "middle": a man of middle age ♦ bang in the middle ♦ bang in the middle of the war ♦ be in the middle ♦ being in the middle ♦ deep middle cerebral vein ♦ Excluded middle ♦ get a middle age ♦ highly,heavily indebted middle income country(HIC) ♦ in the middle ♦ in the middle of ♦ in the middle of it ♦ in the middle of nowhere ♦ in the middle of the ♦ in the middle of the night ♦ in the middle of the street ♦ law of the excluded middle ♦ middle age ♦ middle aged ♦ middle ages ♦ Middle Amana ♦ middle america ♦ middle Atlantic ♦ middle band ♦ middle body ♦ Middle Brook ♦ middle brow ♦ middle buster ♦ middle c ♦ middle cerebral artery ♦ middle cerebral vein ♦ middle class ♦ middle class family ♦ middle class income ♦ middle course ♦ middle cut ♦ middle distance ♦ middle distance runner ♦ middle distance running ♦ middle ear ♦ Middle Ear Ventilation ♦ Middle East ♦ middle east technical university ♦ middle eastern ♦ middle england ♦ middle english ♦ middle finger ♦ Middle Granville ♦ middle Greek ♦ middle ground ♦ Middle Grove ♦ middle high german ♦ Middle Hope ♦ middle Irish ♦ Middle Island ♦ middle Kingdom ♦ middle lamella ♦ Middle Lobe Syndrome ♦ middle low german ♦ middle man ♦ middle management ♦ middle marker ♦ middle meningeal artery ♦ middle mute ♦ middle name ♦ middle of the back ♦ middle of the roader ♦ middle oil ♦ middle part ♦ middle part of inferior parietal lobule ♦ middle passage ♦ middle peasant ♦ Middle Pillar technique ♦ Middle Point ♦ middle position ♦ middle post ♦ middle price ♦ middle rate ♦ middle rib ♦ Middle River ♦ middle school ♦ middle seat ♦ middle section ♦ middle sized ♦ middle state ♦ middle States ♦ middle Temple ♦ middle temporal vein ♦ middle Tenor ♦ middle term ♦ middle thyroid vein ♦ middle tint ♦ Middle Valley ♦ Middle Village ♦ middle voice ♦ middle watch ♦ middle weight ♦ middle west ♦ place in the middle ♦ reach the middle ♦ right in the middle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "middle": Middle-age, middle-aged, middle-aged man, middle-aged-to-elderly, Middle-ages, middle-american, middle-back, middle-belt, middle-biased, middle-bracket, middle-brow, middle-class, middle-class person, middle-class-dominated, middle-classes, middle-classness, middle-class-people, middle-class-prison, middle-class-tinted, middle-coat, middle-cut, middle-deemed-secondary, middle-demand, middle-distance, middle-distance race, middle-distant, middle-ear, middle-ear deafness, middle-earner, Middle-earth, Middle-east, middle-eastern, middle-eights, middle-endian, Middle-england, Middle-europe, middle-european, middle-fifties, middle-finger, middle-grade, middle-grade management, middle-grader, Middle-ground, middle-horned, middle-horns, middle-income, middle-income, middle-jumper, middle-land, middle-late, middle-length, middle-level, middle-lower-middle, middle-man, middle-management, middle-manager, middle-managers, Middle-march, middle-market, middle-men, middle-middle, middle-minded, middle-of-nowhere, middle-of-the, middle-of-the-night, middle-of-the-nightish, middle-of-the-range, middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-roader, middle-of-the-roaders, middle-of-the-roadism, middle-of-the-table, middle-order, middle-out, middle-out implementation, middle-period, middle-persons, middle-pocket, middle-power, middle-priced, middle-range, middle-rank, middle-ranked, middle-ranking, middle-right, middle-saxon, middle-scale, middle-school, middle-sector, middle-sixties, middle-size, middle-sized, middle-stage, middle-stratum, middle-strength, middle-terraced, middle-tier, middle-to, middle-to-low, middle-to-ruling, middle-water, middle-wave, middle-weight, middle-with, middle-women. | |
Ending with "middle": light-middle, lower-middle, pig-in-the-middle, upper-middle. | |
Containing "middle": lower-middle-income, upper-middle-class, upper-middle-income. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
middle east | 2,997 | middle name | 178 |
middle east map | 1,034 | middle east conflict | 174 |
middle age | 881 | middle earth online | 172 |
middle school | 803 | malcom in the middle | 162 |
middle finger | 545 | finger middle picture | 146 |
malcolm in the middle | 494 | middle market | 127 |
hotel middle east | 458 | middle island ny | 121 |
middle tennessee state university | 390 | stuck in the middle | 108 |
middle east news | 385 | the middle age | 105 |
middle east history | 335 | middle eastern recipe | 102 |
middle east travel | 326 | middle east job | 101 |
middle earth | 261 | middle east cooking recipe | 93 |
middle | 237 | job in the middle east | 90 |
middle village ny | 236 | middle school math | 87 |
map middle earth | 219 | middle eastern | 87 |
middle eastern food | 190 | middle atlantic | 86 |
middle georgia college | 188 | middle east airline | 85 |
middle river md | 185 | middle school lesson plan | 74 |
baby middle name | 183 | eat jimmy lyrics middle world | 72 |
middle passage | 180 | middle finger pic | 68 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "middle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | medium (average, mean), gemiddeld (average, mean). (various references) | |
Albanian | mes (bosom, bull's eye, dia-, heart, mean, medium, midriff, midst, thick, waist, waistline), i mesit (lumbar, medial, median, mid, middlemost). (various references) | |
Arabic | وسط (center), في وسط, متوسط (age, average, central, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, middling, moderate, ordinary, pass, poorly), معتدل (abstemious, balmy, clement, conservative, erect, genial, gentle, low key, measured, meek, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, soft, steady, straight, temperate, upright), قلب (alter, bring down, capricious, capsize, center, centre, change, convert, core, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, topple, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, turn up, upset, upturn, whimsical), وسيط (arbiter, broker, go between, interface, intermediary, mediator, pander, speculator), وسط (amid, amidst, among, amongst, center, centre, endo-, fair, john doe, mean, medium, midst, milieu, navel, ordinary, umbilicus, waist), خصر, المتوسط (average), بطن (abdomen, back, belly, gorge, interiorize, internalize, line, pad, paunch, quilt, redouble, stomach, underlay, venter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | среден залог, среден (average, indifferent, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, medium, mesial, mid, middlemost, middle-of-the-road, middling, moderate, neutral, run of the mill), среда (ambience, background, circle, core, entourage, mean, medium, setting, sphere, surroundings), стока от средно качество, централен (central, centric, middlemost, nodal, pivotal, polar), талия (waist), общ член, поставям в средата. (various references) | |
Chinese | 半中腰 (halfway), 中間 (betwixt, intermediate, mid), 中间 (Amid, Amidst, intermediate, intermediately, medial, medially, median, mediate, mid, mid-off, midst), 中央 (center, central), 中 (among, center, China, Chinese, during, hit, in, while, within). (various references) | |
Czech | střední (central, intermediate, mean, medium, mid), prostřední (medial, mid, middling, passable). (various references) | |
Danish | midte (average, mean). (various references) | |
Dutch | middelbaar (average, mean), gemiddeld (average, mean), doorsnee (average, mean, profile). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mezo (average, mean), meze (rather), meza (average, mean). (various references) | |
Faeroese | miðja (average, mean, thallium, waist, waistline). (various references) | |
Finnish | puoliväli, keskipiste (average, central point, centre, mean), keskikohta (centre), keskikesä (centre). (various references) | |
French | milieu (midst, milieu), moyen (middling), intermédiaire (middleman), centre. (various references) | |
Frisian | midden (average, mean). (various references) | |
German | Mitte (average, center, centre, mean, medium, midpoint, midst, midway, thick), mittlere (average, intermediate, mean, medial, median, medium, middling), mittlerer (average, entropy, mean), Mittel- (average, mean, medial, median, mid), Mittel (agent, aid, application, average, device, funds, mean, means, medicament, medium, method, mezzo, remedy, resource, resources, tool, vehicle, way). (various references) | |
Greek | μέση (waist, waistline), μέσοσ (average, mean, medial, median, medium, mesne, mezzo, mid), μέσο (agency, agent, channel, expedient, instrumentality, mean, means, midst, resource, way), μεσαίος (intermediate, medium), μεσαίο (mezzanine), πλαίσιο (casing, context, frame). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | mitan. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אמצע (center, mean, midst). (various references) | |
Hungarian | közép- (central, mean, median). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pinggang (loin, side, waist), pertengahan (midway), alang (crossbeam, crosswise, diagonal, medium). (various references) | |
Irish | mheán, meán. (various references) | |
Italian | mezzo (average, center, centre, equipment, half, instrumentality, mean, means, medium, mid, midst, semi, the middle, vehicle), medio (average, common, mean, median, medium, mid, middling, normal), metà (centre, half). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 半ば (half, halfway, partly, semi). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たけ (all, another family, bamboo, height, length, measure, mountain, peak, stature), ただなか, ミドル , なかば (half, halfway, partly, semi), なかほど (midway), なか (among, inside, relation, relationship), まなか (centre, mid-way), まんなか (centre, mid-way), ちゅうおうぶ (centre), ちゅうおう (center, central, Central Europe, centre), ちゅうぶ (center, heart, palsy, paralysis, region south and south-west of Tokyo area), ちゅうばん (cabinet size, medium size), ちゅうかん (daytime, during the day, interim, midway, volume two), ちゅうはん (half-finished, lunch, midday meal, the noonday meal). (various references) | |
Korean | 중간 (intermediate, medial, mediate). (various references) | |
Malay | tengah (average, mean). (various references) | |
Manx | mean-ynnyd (middle ground), mair vooar (middle finger), maidjey meanagh (middle oar). (various references) | |
Papiamen | Medio-Oriente (Middle East). (various references) | |
Pidgin English | middle. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iddlemay.(various references) | |
Polish | środek (average, centre, mean). (various references) | |
Portuguese | meio (average, center, centre, device, entourage, expedient, half, handle, intermedium, mean, means, medium, midst, navel, organ, remedy, resource, resources, surroundings, vehicle, wherewith), médio (average, mean, medial, medium, mid). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | meio. (various references) | |
Romanian | mijlociu (average, mean, medium, middling, moderate, second born, second rate), mijloc (center, centre, depth, handle, instrumentality, mean, means, medium, method, midst, resource, thick, vehicle, waist, way), miezul, mediu (average, circumstance, environment, mean, medium, mise en scene, moderate, society, surroundings), marfã de calitate medie, termen mediu (mean, medium), talie (bodice, body, corsage, figure, make, size, stature, waist, waistline), porţiunea de mijloc, partea de mijloc, diarezã medialã, de mijloc (mean, medial, median, Midland), de la mijloc. (various references) | |
Russian | средний (average, avg, mean, medial, medium, mesial, mid, middle sized, middle-of-the-road, middle-sized, middling, moderate, neuter, neutral, secondary), середина средний, середина (center, centre, inside, mean, medium, midst), талия (waist, waistline), подача мяча в центр поля. (various references) | |
Scottish | meadhon (centre, midst, the middle, waist), buillsgean (centre). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | srednji (central, intermediate, medial, median, medium, mid, neuter), sredina (ambience, matrix, medium, midst, milieu), središte (center, centre, hub, navel, omphalos), polovina (half, moiety, one half). (various references) | |
Slovene | srednje. (various references) | |
Somali | dhexdeeda (in the middle). (various references) | |
Sotho | hara (in the middle). (various references) | |
Spanish | centro (average, center, centre, core, focus, forum, goal, headquarters, heart, kernel, mean, navel, omphalos, polls, seat), medio (agent, average, extent, habitat, half, halfback, lift, line, mean, means, medial, medium, mesial, mid, midst, milieu, recipe, remedy, resources, tack, the middle, tool, way). (various references) | |
Sranan | mindri (average, mean). (various references) | |
Swedish | mitt (center, centre, my), mitten. (various references) | |
Tagalog | gitnâ (average, centre, mean). (various references) | |
Thai | ตรงกลาง (mid), ปานกลาง (average, fair, middling, moderate), จุดกึ่งกลาง (median). (various references) | |
Turkish | orta yer (midpoint, midst, navel), orta kısım (centre-piece, heart, waist), orta (bosom, c, center, central, centre, fair, in between, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediate, mediocre, medium, mesial, mesne, meso-, mezzo-, mid, mid-, middling, midst, moderate, passable, secondary). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ortanjy, ortaky, orta (center), ara (interval). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | середній (average, mean, medial, median, medium, mesial, mid, middle-of-the-road, middling, moderate, neutral, normal, secondary), середина (center, centre, core, mean, medium, midpoint, midst, navel), талія (girdle, waist, waistline). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trung thời Trung cổ Trung đông, giữa nửa người, chỗ thắt lưng, ở giữa (central, intermediate, median, mesne). (various references) | |
Welsh | canol (average, mean, midst, waist). (various references) | |
Xhosa | sekuphakathi (It is in the middle). (various references) | |
Yucatec | chumuk (average, centre, half, mean). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ib, murub, sabad. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | qablû. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | mesos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | medius. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | maidhya. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | midd. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | mezzo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 4, Verse 35 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai epetimhsen autw o ihsouV legwn fimwqhti kai exelqe ex autou kai riyan auton to daimonion eiV to meson exhlqen ap autou mhden blayan auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et increpavit illi Iesus dicens obmutesce et exi ab illo et cum proiecisset illum daemonium in medium exiit ab illo nihilque illum nocuit |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And þa cidde him se hælend and cwæþ. adumba and ga him of; and þa he ut adraf hine on heora midlene: he him fram gewat: and him naht ne derude; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Jhesus blamede hym, and seide, Wexe doumbe, and go out fro hym. And whanne the feend hadde cast hym forth in to the myddil, he wente a wei fro hym, and he noyede hym no thing. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Iesus rebuked him sayinge: holde thy peace and come oute of him. And the devyll threwe him in the myddes of them and came oute of him and hurt him not. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the demon had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Jesus said to him, Be quiet, and come out of him. And when the evil spirit had put him down on the earth in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no damage. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 4, Verse 35 |
| Cebuano | Apan gibadlong siya ni Jesus nga nag-ingon, "Hilum diha, ug gumula ka kaniya!" Ug ang yawa, sa gikalamba niya ang tawo diha sa ilang taliwala, migula gikan kaniya nga wala makahimo kaniyag kadaut. |
| Croatian | Isus mu zaprijeti: "Umukni i iziði iz njega!" Nato ðavao èovjeka obori u sredinu te iziðe iz njega ne naudiv mu ništa. |
| Danish | Og Jesus truede ham og sagde: "Ti, og far ud af ham!" Og den onde Ånd kastede ham ind imellem dem og for ud af ham uden at have gjort ham nogen Skade. |
| Dutch | En Jezus bestrafte hem, zeggende: Zwijg stil, en ga van hem uit. En de duivel, hem in het midden geworpen hebbende, voer van hem uit, zonder hem iets te beschadigen. |
| Finnish | Niin Jeesus nuhteli häntä sanoen: "Vaikene ja lähde hänestä". Ja riivaaja viskasi hänet maahan heidän keskelleen ja lähti hänestä, häntä ollenkaan vahingoittamatta. |
| French | Jésus le menaça, disant: Tais-toi, et sors de cet homme. Et le démon le jeta au milieu de l`assemblée, et sortit de lui, sans lui faire aucun mal. |
| German | Und Jesus bedrohte ihn und sprach: Verstumme und fahre aus von ihm! Und der Teufel warf ihn mitten unter sie und fuhr von ihm aus und tat ihm keinen Schaden. |
| Hungarian | És megdorgálá õt Jézus, mondván: Némulj meg és menj ki ez emberbõl! És az ördög azt a középre vetvén, kiméne belõle, és nem árta néki semmit. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Diam!" bentak Yesus kepada roh jahat itu. "Keluarlah dari orang ini!" Lalu roh jahat itu membanting orang itu di hadapan mereka semua, kemudian keluar dari orang itu tanpa menyakitinya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu Yesus menengking dia, kata-Nya, "Diam, keluarlah engkau daripada orang ini!" Maka setan itu pun menghempaskan orang itu di tengah-tengah orang banyak, lalu keluarlah setan itu dari dalamnya dengan tiada menyakiti dia. |
| Manx Gaelic | As hug Yeesey oghsan da, gra Bee dty-host, as tar magh ass. As tra va'n drogh spyrryd er hilgey neeal eh, haink eh magh ass, gyn assee da. |
| Maori | Na riria iho ia e Ihu, ka mea ia, Kati te korero, puta mai hoki i roto i a ia. Katahi te rewera ka turaki i a ia ki waenganui, a puta mai ana i roto i a ia, kihai hoki tera i ahatia. |
| Portuguese | Mas Jesus o repreendeu, dizendo: Cala-te, e sai dele. E o demônio, tendo-o lançado por terra no meio do povo, saiu dele sem lhe fazer mal algum. |
| Rumanian | Isus l -a certat, wi i -a zis: ,,Taci, wi iewi afarq din omul acesta!`` Wi dracul, dupqce l -a trkntit jos, kn mijlocul adunqrii, a iewit afarq din el, fqrq sq -i facq vreun rqu. |
| Shuar | Tutai Jesus iwianchin kakantar chicharuk "Takamatsata. Ju aishman ikiuktia" Tímiayi. Tutai nu chichamaik íwianch aishmannumia jiinki weak Nunká ajuant ikiukmiayi. Túrasha nekas yajauch awajtsuk ikiukmiayi. |
| Swahili | Lakini Yesu akamkemea huyo pepo akisema: "Nyamaza! Mtoke mtu huyu!" Basi, huyo pepo baada ya kumwangusha yule mtu chini, akamtoka bila kumdhuru hata kidogo. |
| Swedish | Men Jesus tilltalade honom strängt och sade: "Tig och far ut ur honom." Då kastade den onde anden omkull mannen mitt ibland dem och for ut ur honom, utan att hava gjort honom någon skada. |
| Uma | Yesus mpo'uli' -ki seta toei: "Ngkaba'i-ko! Palai-ko ngkai tauna tetui!" Seta to mpesuai' tau toei mpodungka-i hi laintongo' ntodea, pai' -i malai, aga uma-i napopai-pai. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "middle": middlebrow, middlebrows, middled, middleman, middlemen, middler, middlers, middles, middleweight, middleweights. (additional references) | |
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"Middle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: liddle, Maddala, Maddle, maidel, meddel, micdadei, middel, Middele, Middell, Middie, middl, middled, Middler, middly, midla, midlay, midle, midlle, muddlec, muddlee, muddleh, muddlen, Naddle, niddle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "middle" (pronounced mi"dul) |
| 4 | -i" d u l | fiddle, Piddle, riddle, twiddle, widdle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, medal, meddle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, rekindle, remodel, rhizoidal, Ruddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, tidal, toddle, trundle, twaddle, Tweedle, unbundle, vandal, Waddle, Wedel, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-l-m" | |
-1 letter: idled, limed. | |
-2 letters: deil, deli, died, diel, dime, idem, idle, lied, lime, meld, mild, mile. | |
-3 letters: del, did, die, dim, eld, elm, led, lei, lid, lie, med, mel, mid, mil. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, em, id, li, me, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-l-m" | |
+1 letter: delimed, dimpled, middled, middler, middles. | |
+2 letters: imploded, meddling, middlers, midfield, mildened, mildewed, mudslide. | |
+3 letters: bedimpled, birdlimed, declaimed, delimited, demiworld, diplomaed, dishelmed, dislimned, displumed, domiciled, impleaded, impledged, melodised, melodized, middleman, middlemen, midfields, misdialed, mislodged, mudslides. | |
+4 letters: admittedly, bemuddling, demiworlds, demolished, disclaimed, dismantled, dissembled, duodecimal, epididymal, imboldened, maledicted, manifolded, middlebrow, midfielder, misdialled, misfielded, mishandled, mispleaded, multisided, windmilled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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