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mid

1[mid]
adjective
1.
being at or near the middle point of: in mid autumn.
2.
being or occupying a middle place or position: in the mid nineties of the last century.
3.
Phonetics. (of a vowel) articulated with an opening above the tongue relatively intermediate between those for high and low: the vowels of beet, bet, and hot are respectively high, mid, and low. Compare high (def. 23), low (def. 30).
noun
4.
Archaic. the middle.

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Mid is always a great word to know.
So is voiceless. Does it mean:
a frictionless speech sound with only a partial obstruction of the breath stream whose utterance can be prolonged, especially l and r
uttered without phonation

Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English midd- (both an adj. and the initial element of a compound; modern spellings such as mid autumn are probably a reanalysis of mid- as an adj.); cognate with Old High German mitti, Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis, Old Irish mide, Latin medius, Greek mésos, Sanskrit madhya middle, OCS mežda limit, border
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mid

2[mid]
preposition
Also, 'mid.

mid

3[mid]
noun Informal.
a midshipman.

Origin:
by shortening

mid-

a combining form representing mid1 in compound words: midday; mid-Victorian.

Origin:
Middle English, Old English; see mid1

Mid.

mid.

M.I.D.

Master of Industrial Design.
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mid1 (mɪd)
 
adj
1.  phonetics of, relating to, or denoting a vowel whose articulation lies approximately halfway between high and low, such as e in English bet
 
n
2.  an archaic word for middle
 
[C12 midre (inflected form of midd, unattested); related to Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis]

mid or 'mid2 (mɪd)
 
prep
a poetic word for amid
 
'mid or 'mid2
 
prep

mid or 'mid2 (mɪd)
 
prep
a poetic word for amid
 
'mid or 'mid2
 
prep

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mid
O.E. mid, from P.Gmc. *medjaz (cf. O.N. miðr, O.S. middi, O.Fris. midde, O.H.G. mitti, Goth. midjis), from PIE *medhyo- (cf. Skt. madhyah, Gk. mesos, L. medius "middle;" see medial). Now surviving only as a prefix (midair, midstream, etc.); use as a preposition is often
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aphetic use of amid (cf. midshipman).
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Medical Dictionary

MID abbr.
minimal infecting dose

mid- pref.
Middle: midbrain.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms
MID
  1. message identifier

  2. Military Intelligence Division

  3. minimal infecting dose

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