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# midi

«midi» in Mova's school dictionary: **a skirt or dress that reaches the middle of the lower leg** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a midi, midis); adjective (midi); abbreviation (MIDI)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A midi is a skirt or dress that reaches the middle of the lower leg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midi/#m1)

2) MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a way for electronic instruments and computers to send music notes to each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midi/#m2)

3) Midi is French for «noon» or «south» (French), as in «le Midi», the south of France. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midi/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music technology lessons, a MIDI keyboard plays sounds through a computer. In fashion, «midi skirt» is between mini and maxi. In French lessons, «midi» means midday: «à midi» = at noon.

### examples

- She wore a blue midi dress to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midi/#x1)
- Plug the MIDI keyboard into the laptop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midi/#x2)
- The game's music was made with MIDI files. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midi/#x3)
- In French, «midi» means twelve o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midi/#x4)
- Mini, midi, maxi — short, middle, long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midi/#x5)
- We had lunch at midi in Paris. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midi/#x6)

### note

Pronounced «MID-ee». MIDI is written in capitals when it means the music system. Not the same as «middy».

### In the corpora

- [midi means noon and minuit means midnight; le Midi is also a name for the south of France.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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