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MIDDLE

/ˈmɪdəl/
Meanings
  • adjective, noun

    The central part of something.

    - "The middle of the road is the safest place to walk."
    - "The middle child often feels neglected."
    - "The middle of a pie is filled with delicious fruit."

  • A place between two other things.

    - "The middle of the week is Wednesday."
    - "The middle of a sentence is the point where the meaning becomes clear."
Pronunciation
  1. /ˈmɪdəl/



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  2. /ˈmɪdəl/



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Synonyms

center , centre , midpoint , center , centre , midst
Rhymes
Words rhyming with MIDDLE
diddle , middled , riddled , piddle , fiddle
Homonyms
Words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins

  1. Middle (Scottish) : Middle of the night

  2. Middle (Marathi) : A type of Indian bread

Homophones
Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,

  1. middling

  2. midel

  3. midwife

  4. middy

Variants
List of all variants of middle that leads to same result
middle , middle of nowhere , middles , middle age , middle ages , middle-aged , middle-ager , middle-agers , Middle Ages , Middle America , Middle American , middle americas , middle-American , middle C , middle Cs , middle-class , middle-classness , middle-classnesses , middle class , middle classes , middle distance , middle distances , Middle Dutch
Forms
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middles, middle's, middling

Etymology
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Old English middel, from midde, mid 'middle'. Related to mid-, myd-, in the middle of.

Trivia
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  1. The term 'middle class' was first used in the 18th century.

  2. The middle finger is the most commonly used insulting gesture in the world.

  3. The median is a more robust measure of central tendency than the mean.

Related Concepts
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  1. Median: In statistics, the median is the middle value in a dataset when arranged in order.

  2. Middle class: A social class in the middle of a hierarchical order, often defined by income and education levels.

Culture
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In literature, 'middle' is often used metaphorically to represent a balanced or neutral state. For example, in Shakespeare's 'Henry IV, Part 1', Prince Hal says, 'I'll so offend, to make offense a virtue; / So sink, as not to sink, so rise, as to rise.' Here, 'middle' represents a state of balance between good and evil.

How to Memorize "middle"

  1. visualize

    - Visualize a horizontal line representing a road. The middle of the road is the safest place for a pedestrian.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word 'middle' with the number '5'. For example, 'Middle' is the number in the middle of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6.

  3. mnemonics

    - Use the mnemonic 'My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas' to remember the order of the planets from the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

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