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middle

The place that is between two things; the place that is halfway between two ends of something. Cut the wood exactly in the middle to get two pieces of equal size. The middle of the three books is the one you want.

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(= center, centre, heart, eye) 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 (= in-between, mediate) 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 (= center) equally distant from the extremes (= midriff) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable an intermediate part or section A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end — Aristotle time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period the middle of the war rain during the middle of April between an earlier and a later period of time in the middle years in his middle thirties 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 put in the middle

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Simple sentences

Tom woke up in the middle of the night.
We have a post in the middle of our yard that we chain our dog to.
Tom is freezing in the middle of nowhere.
He's known her since middle school.
Holy crap, who's the asshole who dares call me in the middle of the night?!
The bridge is designed to open in the middle.
The professor gave a lecture on the Middle East.
What thought do you think had the biggest impact on the English in the Middle Ages?
It goes without saying that camels are very useful in the Middle East.
The bus stopped suddenly in the middle of the street.
Which idea do you think had the greatest influence on the English in the Middle Ages?
A truck was standing in the middle of the road.
The middle-aged women kept talking loudly all the way.
The middle aged man was charged with assault.
The cathedral dates back to the Middle Ages.
The baby woke up in the middle of the night.
Fold the paper in the middle.
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.
The tiger laid in the middle of the cage.
However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves.
Chicago is the principal city of the Middle West.
I had to leave the theatre in the middle of the concert.
That party is always pandering to the middle class.
We ran out of gas in the middle of the intersection.

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We sat in the middle forest in a large building.
Six survivors are in a large building in the middle of the jungle.
As a new century dawned in 1 400, the emperor YongIe had another transport technology at his disposal, which had the potential to make him master, not just of the middle Kingdom, but of the entire global market.
What they're building here in Nanjing is a fuII-scaIe replica of one of the treasure ships of admiral Zheng He - the most famous sailor in Chinese history, the man who very nearly turned the middle Kingdom into a global empire.
Dating back to the middle Ages, they're a reminder of the amazing power - economic and political - that used to be wielded by London's craftsmen and merchants.
Just take a walk from the Protecting Harmony hall to the middle Harmony hall, where the emperor had his private quarters, to the hall of Supreme Harmony, where the Dragon Throne itself sat. Harmony, harmony, harmony.
In the middle of the wood, very close to the river, I found this really weird-looking tree.
In the middle of me looking at it, somebody was watching at me.
Except some of them, I can't really reach 'cause they're in the middle of my back.
Cooper, we are in the middle of a Weird Science teenage male fantasy and you're sitting there looking for your phone?
How very middle-aged of you.
Kind of in the middle of something here.
Middle-aged?!
Since when is 37 middle-aged?
In the middle of the 19th century we knew that the stars were in fact like the sun.
Middle management positions are such a drag, aren't they?
In the latter part of the Middle Ages the earth was considered to be a stationary sphere in the middle of the universe.
I have found a strange old mechanical presentation of Hell, which offers a good understanding of the beliefs in the Middle Ages.
During the Middle Ages, devils and Hell were considered real and constantly feared.
These scenes are often found on famous Witch Sabbath pictures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Such were the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and the Devil's work were sought everywhere.
Is it from the eternal fright of the pyre that you get drunk every night, you poor old woman of the Middle Ages?
In the convents during the Middle Ages, fear of the Devil escalated into an almost hopeless despair.
In the Middle Ages it was believed that during the Sabbath the Devil put some invisible marks on the witch's body, where all sensitivity vanished.
In the Middle Ages you were in conflict with the church.
We sang for the right side first, then the middle, then the left.
Listen, Thorpe. I never quit a job in the middle of the road.
Is it the one in the middle?
It's the one in the middle.
Because I'm stuck in an illegal prison in the middle of the Sahara fucking desert.
Because you're a middle-aged man - who got married at 22.
See, my roommates and I are launching this hangover cure, and, uh, we were in the middle of a very important business meeting.
Uh, yeah, Cam, we were actually in the middle - of a business meeting, so. - What?
Last seen in the company of a tall blonde woman in her middle years.

News and current affairs

In my view, the most powerful argument to justify today's high price of gold is the dramatic emergence of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East into the global economy.
WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS - Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle-aged child.
Netanyahu was in the United States for yet another round of Middle East peace talks.
This is no longer a feasible strategy for large or middle-income developing countries.
Think of how much more genuine diversity would there be in a united Europe if national states did not squat in the middle.
Whereas the Bush administration is deploying an additional 21,000 American soldiers in Iraq, and is pushing for more allied troops in Afghanistan, America's allies are rejecting its Middle East policy.
So, in order to cut global carbon emissions in half by the middle of the century, we would obviously have to start getting a lot more of our energy from sources that don't emit carbon.
The Middle East is a place where the dust hardly ever settles.
As for America, anything it touches in the Middle East has become radioactive, even for longstanding clients and friends.
While this is a reasonable demand, the rest of the Middle East - and, indeed, much of the world, including Europe - regard the root cause of the conflict as Israeli intransigence and arrogance, together with America's blind support for it.
In the Middle East, we must break the stalemate.
Finally, long-simmering tensions in the Middle East between Israel and the US on one side and Iran on the other on the issue of nuclear proliferation could reach a boil by 2013.
It was at that crossroads that Israel and Iran, two powers vying for mastery in a rapidly changing Middle East, chose to cast their strategic competition in ideological terms.
In an Arab Middle East, Iran is the natural enemy; in an Islamic world, Iran is a potential leader.
And the incomes of the moderately educated middle class failed to benefit from deregulation-led growth (though it improved their lot as consumers).
Witness the upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East.
Finally, Baker was appealing to America's traditional allies in Europe and the Middle East, who need American friendship in many areas.
Even assuming stability in real estate prices, the global crisis surely will cause a fall in remittances by Africans working good jobs in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East.
The opposite is true for regional groupings in Africa and in the Middle East where trade with the outside world is more important than intra-regional trade.
Helping to make societies in the Middle East and elsewhere more democratic might reduce the alienation that can lead to radicalism and worse, but this is easier said than done.
We know this because we have seen it happen repeatedly: a poor, agrarian economy transforms itself into a middle- or even high-income urban economy in one or two generations.
Today, China has become an upper-middle-income country, and it is on track to become a high-income country by 2020.

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