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# mid

«mid» in Mova's school dictionary: **in the middle of something, often in a word with a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

prefix and adjective (mid-, mid); preposition (mid — poetic, short for amid)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mid means in the middle of something, often in a word with a hyphen: mid-morning, mid-air, mid-sentence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#m1)

2) (adjective) Mid shows a position in the middle: the mid point, mid range. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#m2)

3) (slang, US) Mid means just average or not very good: «That film was mid.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#m3)

4) (poetic) Mid is a short form of amid, meaning among. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths the midpoint is the point exactly halfway along a line. In time talk mid-morning, midday, midnight and mid-week tell where in the day or week something happens. In stories «mid-air» and «mid-sentence» show that something was interrupted halfway. Phrases: in mid-air, mid-way, in the mid-twenties (of an age or temperature).

### examples

- The ball stopped in mid-air and fell back down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#x1)
- We have a snack at mid-morning break. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#x2)
- She stopped mid-sentence when the teacher came in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#x3)
- Mark the midpoint of the line AB. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#x4)
- The temperature was in the mid-twenties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#x5)
- Our holiday is in mid-summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#x6)
- (slang) Honestly, that new game is kinda mid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#x7)
- He caught the frisbee mid-jump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#x8)
- About mid-day he reached a sandy plain, scorching in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/#x9)

### note

Usually joined to another word with a hyphen (mid-air, mid-week) or written as one word (midday, midnight, midpoint). «Mid» as slang for «average or poor» is informal teen talk, not for written work. In maths «mid» means halfway, so the midpoint of 0 and 10 is 5.

### In the corpora

- [Slang: «lush» (Wales) means lovely; «mid» means average.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/30/)
- [Sam wants chess club; Jake says chess is «mid» — Gen Z for boring, nothing special.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/20/)
- [«Conkers is so mid, it's literally a nut on a string,» he says — and watches every single game.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/12/)
- [After hearing a kid call him «mid» (boring), Monty in Los Angeles decides to test his friends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/0/)
- [In Vancouver, Lin's Mandarin is «mid» (Gen Z slang for just average).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.