middle

nouns

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"
center, centre, eye, heart, middle
an intermediate part or section
"A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
middle
antonym
end
antonym
beginning
is a type of (narrower)
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
"the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
division, part, section
the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
"young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
middle, midriff, midsection
time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
"the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
middle
antonym
end
antonym
beginning
is a type of (narrower)
an instant of time
"at that point I had to leave"
point, point in time

verbs

put in the middle
middle
is a type of (narrower)
put into a certain place or abstract location
"Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
lay, place, pose, position, put, set

adjectives

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"
in-between, mediate, middle
equally distant from the extremes
center, halfway, middle, midway
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"
middle
antonym
late
antonym
early
domain category
the scientific study of language
linguistics
between an earlier and a later period of time
"in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
middle
antonym
late
antonym
early
is similar to
occurring or falling between events or points in time
"so much had happened during the intervening years"
intervening
is similar to
used in combination to denote the middle
"midmorning"; "midsummer"; "in mid-1958"; "a mid-June wedding"
mid
is an attribute of
the time when something happens
timing