Middle

Russian Meaning

English Meaning

1. Equally distant from extremes or limits; central: the middle point on a line.
2. Being at neither one extreme nor the other; intermediate.
3. Intervening between an earlier and a later period of time; being an intermediate part of a sequence or series: the middle years.
4. Geology Of or relating to a division of geologic time between an earlier and a later division: the Middle Paleozoic.
5. Of or relating to a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages: Middle Swedish.
6. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a verb form or voice in which the subject both performs and is affected by the action specified.
7. An area or a point equidistant between extremes; a center: the middle of a circle.
8. Something intermediate between extremes; a mean.
9. The interior portion: the middle of a chain.
10. The middle part of the human body; the waist.
11. Logic A middle term.
12. Grammar The middle voice.
13. Grammar A verb form in the middle voice.
14. To place in the middle.
15. Nautical To fold in the middle: middle the sail.