mid

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mid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mid \Mid\, n.
     Middle. [Obs.]
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           About the mid of night come to my tent.  --Shak.
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  Mid \Mid\, prep.
     See Amid.
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  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.]
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     1. Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.
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              No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings,
              Shall list'ning in mid air suspend their wings.
                                                    --Pope.
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     2. Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger;
        the mid hour of night.
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     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.
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     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.
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mid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mid
      adj 1: used in combination to denote the middle; "midmorning";
             "midsummer"; "in mid-1958"; "a mid-June wedding"

mid - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  MID
         Message IDentifier (ATM)
         

  MID
         Mobile Information Device
         

  MID
         Multiple Interface Declaration (OLSR)
         

mid - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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