1. (

• middle

) put in the middle ;

1. (

• in-between ,
• mediate ,
• middle

) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line" ;

2. (

• center ,
• halfway ,
• middle ,
• midway

) equally distant from the extremes ;

3. (

• middle ,

) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic" ;

4. (

• middle

) between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties" ;