middle

Roget category 68

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.4. Order
›› 1.4.2. Consecutive order

#68. Middle

noun

middle, midst, mediety^†, mean etc. 29 — medium, middle term — center etc. 222, mid-course etc. 628 — mezzo termine [It] — juste milieu [Fr.] etc. 628 — halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos^† — nucleus, nucleolus.
equidistance^†, bisection, half distance — equator, diaphragm, midriff — intermediate etc. 228.

adjective

middle, medial, mesial [Med.], mean, mid, median, average — middlemost, midmost — mediate — intermediate etc. (interjacent) 228 — equidistant — central etc. 222 — mediterranean, equatorial — homocentric.

adverb

in the middle — midway, halfway — midships^†, amidships, in medias res.

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