mid
Multiple Entries:mid mid-
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mid1
▶adjective
- 1 of or in the middle of a range.
- 2 Phonetics (of a vowel) pronounced with the tongue neither high nor low.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mid2
▶preposition literary in the middle of; amid.
– origin shortening of amid.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mid-/mɪd/
▶combining form denoting the middle of: midsection.
■ in the middle; medium; half: midway.
– origin OE midd, of Gmc origin; rel. to L. medius and Gk mesos.
'mid' also found in these Oxford entries:
babble
- blaze
- blear
- booty
- bovver boots
- bowline
- bowsprit
- box
- brachiosaurus
- brackish
- brake
- brick
- Britpop
- bulwark
- cackle
- cant
- cel
- chlorhexidine
- clast
- clock
- clozapine
- cooper
- corf
- coterie
- cower
- cramp
- craw
- croon
- dam
- dapper
- deal
- degauss
- deinonychus
- dichotic
- distaff
- dock
- dodder
- doit
- dowel
- drunkard
- elder
- engine
- enprint
- extra cover
- feud
- flaw
- fleck
- flokati
- freight
- frug
