middle

noun

1. A centre, midpoint.

   “The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.”

2. The part between the beginning and the end.

   “I woke up in the middle of the night.”

   “In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.”

   “Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.”

3. The middle stump.
4. The central part of a human body; the waist.

   “If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.”

5. The middle voice.
6. the center of the political spectrum.

   “As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.”

7. An essay on social or literary issues in a newspaper or magazine, originally placed between the leading articles and the reviews.

   “‘Did you see the Spec. had a middle on “Rural Tenacities” last week. That was all Huckley.’”

adj

1. (no-comparative)Located in the middle; in between.

   “the middle point”

   “middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages”

2. (no-comparative)Central.
3. (no-comparative)Pertaining to the middle voice.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To take a middle view of.

   “And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.
3. (transitive)To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.

name

1. A sheading of the Isle of Man.