middle meaning

• Noun: middle  midul
  1. An area that is approximately central within some larger region
     - center [US], centre [Brit, Cdn], heart, eye 
  2. An intermediate part or section
     "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end" 
  3. The middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
     - 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"
  Adjective: middle  midul
  1. Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
     "the middle point on a line"
     - in-between, mediate 
  2. Equally distant from the extremes
     - center [US], halfway, midway, centre [Brit, Cdn] 
  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" 
  4. Between an earlier and a later period of time
     "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
  Verb: middle  midul
  1. Put in the middle

  Derived forms: middles, middled, middling

  See also: central, intermediate, intervening, mid, timing

  Type of: area, country, division, lay, part, place, point, point in time, pose, position, put, region, section, set

  Antonym: beginning, early, end, late

  Part of: body, torso, trunk

  Encyclopedia: Middle Middle, New Jersey

• in the middle:    [American slang]ad ...
• in the middle of:    1. Occupied with, ...
• a middle ground:    [American slang]a ...

Examples

1. put the table right in the middle of the room.
2. there is a table in the middle of the room.
3. i had little to do with the middle east.
4. the current is swiftest in the middle of the river ...
5. he broke off in the middle of a sentence.