mid
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
mid
adj 1: used in combination to denote the middle; "midmorning";
"midsummer"; "in mid-1958"; "a mid-June wedding"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mid \Mid\ (m[i^]d), a. [Compar. wanting; superl. {Midmost}.]
[AS. midd; akin to OS. middi, D. mid (in comp.), OHG. mitti,
Icel. mi[eth]r, Goth. midjis, L. medius, Gr. me`sos, Skr.
madhya. [root]271. Cf. {Amid}, {Middle}, {Midst}, {Mean},
{Mediate}, {Meridian}, {Mizzen}, {Moiety}.]
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1. Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings,
Shall list'ning in mid air suspend their wings.
--Pope.
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2. Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger;
the mid hour of night.
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3. (Phon.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some
certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate;
midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain
vowel sounds; as, [=a] ([=a]le), [e^] ([e^]ll), [=o]
([=o]ld). See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 10, 11.
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Note: Mid is much used as a prefix, or combining form,
denoting the middle or middle part of a thing; as,
mid-air, mid-channel, mid-age, midday, midland, etc.
Also, specifically, in geometry, to denote a circle
inscribed in a triangle (a midcircle), or relation to
such a circle; as, mid-center, midradius.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "mid":
accented, alveolar, amid, amidships, amidst, among, amongst,
apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated,
average, back, barytone, between, betwixt, betwixt and between,
bilabial, broad, cacuminal, center, centermost, central, cerebral,
checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, core, dental,
dissimilated, dorsal, equatorial, equidistant, flat, front, glide,
glossal, glottal, guttural, halfway, hard, heavy, high, interior,
intermediary, intermediate, intonated, labial, labiodental,
labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mean,
medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo,
middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midst,
midway, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nuclear,
occlusive, open, over, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal,
pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched,
posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stopped,
stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty,
throughout, together with, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented,
unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless,
vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, with
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