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# middle

«middle» in Mova's school dictionary: **the part that is halfway between the two ends or sides** — 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

noun (the middle, middles); adjective (middle)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The middle is the part that is halfway between the two ends or sides. In a row of three, the middle one is the second. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#m1)

2) The middle of a time is the part between its start and end: the middle of the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#m2)

3) Middle as an adjective means in the centre: the middle finger, the middle child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#m3)

4) «In the middle of doing something» means busy doing it now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#m4)

5) Middle can also mean medium, neither loud nor quiet, as in a middle voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

a place in a row, line or shape; sometimes the middle number of a list (the median), or the middle step of a story (beginning, middle, end); phrases «in the middle», «middle school», «middle name», «the Middle Ages»

### examples

- Tom stands in the middle of the line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#x1)
- Cut the ribbon in the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#x2)
- There are 4 people on each side of the one in the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#x3)
- What is the middle number of 3, 7 and 9? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#x4)
- I woke up in the middle of the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#x5)
- She is the middle child of three. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#x6)
- My middle name is James. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#x7)
- Sorry, I'm in the middle of my homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#x8)
- said the Middle Bear in his middle voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/middle/#x9)

### note

«In the middle» of a line often means equal numbers on both sides, so total = 2 × side + 1. Cutting «in the middle» gives two equal halves. Trap: do not forget to count the middle one itself. The middle number of an ordered list is the median; with an even count there are two middle numbers.

### In the corpora

- [Change is hard for the people in the middle of it, and their worries are real.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/12/)
- [In the Middle Ages narwhal tusks were sold in Europe as unicorn horns and were worth more than their weight in gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/8/)
- [Musk oxen form a ring facing outwards, with calves in the middle, so wolves meet only a wall of horns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/17/)
- [When wolves come, musk oxen stand in a ring with the calves in the middle and their horns pointing out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/4/)
- [Red blood cells are made in the bone marrow, the soft middle of big bones, about 2 million every second.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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