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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
middle
mid·dle [middle middles middled middling] noun, adjective BrE [ˈmɪdl] NAmE [ˈmɪdl]
noun
1. the middlesingular the part of sth that is at an equal distance from all its edges or sides; a point or a period of time between the beginning and the end of sth
•a lake with an island in the middle
• He was standing in the middle of the room.
• The phone rang in the middle of the night.
•This chicken isn't cooked in the middle.
•His picture was right/bang (= exactly) in the middle of the front page.
•I have a pain in the middle of my back.
•Take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle.
•I should have finished by the middle of the week.
•You can't leave in the middle of the meeting!
•I like a story with a beginning, a middle and an end.
•When they quarrel, I am often caught in the middle.
see also ↑monkey in the middle, ↑piggy in the middle
2. countable, usually singular (informal)a person's waist
•He grabbed her around the middle.
•I've put on weight around the middle.
Word Origin:
Old English middel, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch middel and German Mittel.
Thesaurus:
the
middle noun sing.
•a lake with an island in the middle
centre •
Opp: edge, Opp: end, Opp: side
the middle/centre of sth
in the middle/centre
The middle or the centre? The centre of an area may be a more precise area than the middle: the centre of a circle is the point in the exact middle. Middle but not centre can be used to describe a situation or a period of time:
•When they quarrel, I am often caught in the middle.
✗ When they quarrel, I am often caught in the centre.
Example Bank:
•Divide the cake down the middle.
•It hit him bang in the middle of his forehead.
•Let's wait until the middle of April.
•They stood in the middle of the field.
•We moved to the middle of London.
Idioms: ↑in the middle of of doing something ▪ middle course ▪ ↑middle of nowhere ▪ middle way ▪ ↑split something down the middle
adjective only before noun
in a position in the middle of an object, group of objects, people, etc; between the beginning and the end of sth
•Pens are kept in the middle drawer.
•She's the middle child of three.
•He was very successful in his middle forties.
•a middle-sized room
•the middle-income groups in society
Word Origin:
Old English middel, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch middel and German Mittel.
Example Bank:
•She's the middle child of three.
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