7 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mid \Mid\, n. Middle. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] About the mid of night come to my tent. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mid \Mid\, prep. See {Amid}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mid \Mid\ (m[i^]d), a. [Compar. wanting; superl. {Midmost}.] [AS. midd; akin to OS. middi, D. mid (in comp.), OHG. mitti, Icel. mi[eth]r, Goth. midjis, L. medius, Gr. me`sos, Skr. madhya. [root]271. Cf. {Amid}, {Middle}, {Midst}, {Mean}, {Mediate}, {Meridian}, {Mizzen}, {Moiety}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean. [1913 Webster] No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall list'ning in mid air suspend their wings. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night. [1913 Webster] 3. (Phon.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, [=a] ([=a]le), [e^] ([e^]ll), [=o] ([=o]ld). See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 10, 11. [1913 Webster] Note: Mid is much used as a prefix, or combining form, denoting the middle or middle part of a thing; as, mid-air, mid-channel, mid-age, midday, midland, etc. Also, specifically, in geometry, to denote a circle inscribed in a triangle (a midcircle), or relation to such a circle; as, mid-center, midradius. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: mid adj : used in combination to denote the middle; "midmorning"; "midsummer"; "in mid-1958"; "a mid-June wedding" [syn: {mid(a)}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 126 Moby Thesaurus words for "mid": accented, alveolar, amid, amidships, amidst, among, amongst, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, average, back, barytone, between, betwixt, betwixt and between, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, center, centermost, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, core, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, equatorial, equidistant, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, halfway, hard, heavy, high, interior, intermediary, intermediate, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midst, midway, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nuclear, occlusive, open, over, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, throughout, together with, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, with From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: MID Message IDentifier (ATM) From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: MID Mobile Information Device
Powered by Blog Dictionary [BlogDict]
Kindly supported by
Vaffle Invitation Code
Get a Freelance Job - Outsource Your Projects | Threadless Coupon
All rights
reserved. (2008-2024)