Equally distant from the extremes or limits; mean; middling: as, the middle point of a line; the middle time of life.Intervening; intermediate.In grammar: Intermediale between active and passive: applied to a body of verb-forms of which the office is more or less distinctly reflexive, or denotes the subject as acting on or for or with reference to itself, often answering to an English intransitive verb: as, middle voice, middle ending, middle tense.Intermediate between smooth (unaspirated) and rough (aspirated): as, a middle (medial) mute. See mute, nNautical, a shallow place, as a bank or bar.n. The point or part equally distant from the extremities, limits, of extremes; a mean.n. Specifically, the middle part of the human body; the waist.n. An intervening point or part in space, time, or arrangement; something intermediate.n. In logic, same as middle term.n. In grammar, same as middle voice. See I., 3.n. Synonyms Center, Midst, Middle. Center is a precise word, ordinarily applied to circular, globular, or regular bodies: as, the center of a circle, globe, field; but it is used wherever a similar exactness appears to exist: as, the center of a crowd. Midst regards the person or thing as enveloped or surrounded on all sides, especially by that which is close upon him or it, thick or dense: as, in the midst of the forest, the waves, troubles, one's thoughts. Except as thus modified by the idea of envelopment or close environment, the old idea of midst as meaning the middle point (see Gen. i. 6; Josh. vii. 23; 1 Ki. xxii. 35) is quite obsolete. Midst is very often used abstractly or figuratively, center rarely, middle never. Middle is often applied to extent in only-one direction: as, the middle of the street, of a block of houses, of a string; it is often less precise than center: compare the center and the middle of a room.To set or place in the middle. SpecificallyIn foot-ball, to kick or drive (the ball) into the middle, so that it may be kicked through the goal.To balance or compromise.To ascertain or mark the middle of (as of a line), by doubling or otherwise; fold in the middle; double, as a rope.