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mid
1[ mid ]
adjective
- being at or near the middle point of:
We visited in mid autumn to catch the leaves at their best.
The group was active in the mid 1890s.
- being or occupying a middle place or position:
These socks hit at the mid calf, making them good for wearing with boots.
The bark mid trunk has been eaten away by insects.
- 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 bot are respectively high, mid, and low. Compare high ( def 23 ), low 1( def 30 ).
- Slang. mediocre, unimpressive, or disappointing:
Everyone thinks that show is so great, but I've always thought it was mid.
The shoes are really mid but the shirt is cute.
noun
- Archaic. the middle.
mid
2[ mid ]
preposition
- amid.
mid
3[ mid ]
noun
- a midshipman.
mid-
4- a combining form representing mid1 in compound words:
midday; mid-Victorian.
mid.
5abbreviation for
- middle.
Mid.
6abbreviation for
- Midshipman.
M.I.D.
7abbreviation for
- Master of Industrial Design.
mid.
1abbreviation for
- middle
mid
2/ mɪd /
preposition
- a poetic word for amid
mid
3/ mɪd /
adjective
- phonetics of, relating to, or denoting a vowel whose articulation lies approximately halfway between high and low, such as e in English bet
noun
- an archaic word for middle
mid-
4combining_form
- indicating a middle part, point, time, or position
mid-April
midday
mid-Victorian
Mid.
5abbreviation for
- Midshipman
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Example Sentences
In the mid-afternoon, Ramos and Liu were parked on Tomkins Avenue on a meal break.
But with the outbreak of hostilities in mid-2011, all festivities were thrust into the deep freeze.
Think of the embarrassing subway platform or mid-office “adjustment” debacles you could avoid!
And Asians also showed a shift toward the GOP in the mid-terms.
My bike ride that mid-October day starts like so many others.
We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
So they often occured mid-paragraph; here they have been moved to a more appropriate place.
Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.
While she flitted into the next room to fetch a stamp, Mrs. Haughstone, her needles arrested in mid-air, looked steadily at Tom.
It was a room without beauty, merely walls, repapered once every twenty years, and furniture of the mid-Victorian era.
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