n. an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle

n. time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"

n. the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips

n. the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"

n. 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"

v. put in the middle

adj. between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"

adj. 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"

adj. between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"

adj. 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"

adj. around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"

adj. equally distant from the extremes

n. the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis

n. (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration

n. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

n. 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"

n. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"

n. the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"

n. the property of being central

n. the center of the Earth

n. the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"

n. a seat of government

n. the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher; "he hit the ball to deep center"

n. the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips

n. a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection"

n. the lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of the hill"

n. a relation that provides the foundation for something; "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an interim basis"

n. the central part of the earth

n. the basis on which something is grounded; "there is little foundation for his objections"

n. the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"

n. supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation; "the statue stood on a marble support"

n. a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"

n. the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium"

n. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

adj. lying between two extremes in time or space or degree; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate level"

adj. of or relating to or characterized by transition; "adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood"

adj. at a point midway between two extremes; "at the halfway mark"

adj. occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so much had happened during the intervening years"

adj. used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"

adj. coming next after first; "a second chance"; "the second vice president"

adj. used of the second year in United States high school or college; "the sophomore class"; "his sophomore year"

adj. avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"

adj. not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"

adj. not excessive

adj. not extreme, especially in political views

adj. not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"

adj. located in the middle part of a ship or aircraft

adj. having two centers

adj. having two foci; "bifocal eyeglasses"

adj. being or placed in the center

adj. having or situated at or near a center

adj. having or localized centrally at a focus; "focal point"; "focal infection"

adj. relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle

adj. being in the exact middle

adj. constituting or like a nucleus; "annexation of the suburban fringe by the nuclear metropolis"; "the nuclear core of the congregation"

n. a final part or section; "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end"

n. the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"

n. the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"

n. the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"

n. the outermost or farthest region or point

n. the outside boundary or surface of something

adj. being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast"

adj. at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties"

adj. of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages; "Late Greek"

adj. of an early stage in the development of a language or literature; "the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C."; "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700"

adj. of the stage of education and schools preceding collegiate: "secondary school"; "high school"

adj. of the first stage of education and schools: "elementary school"; "an elementary grammar"