单词 | mid |
释义 | mid mid1 /mid/, adj. 1. being at or near the middle point of: in mid autumn. 2. being or occupying a middle place or position: in the mid nineties of the last century. 3. Phonet. (of a vowel) articulated with an opening above the tongue relatively intermediate between those for high and low: the vowels of beet, bet, and hot are respectively high, mid, and low. Cf. high (def. 23), low (def. 30). n. 4. Archaic. the middle. [bef. 900; ME, OE midd- (both an adj. and the initial element of a compound; modern spellings such as mid autumn are prob. a reanalysis of MID- as an adj.); c. OHG mitti, ON mithr, Goth midjis, OIr mide, L medius, Gk mésos, Skt madhya middle, OCS mezda limit, border] mid2 /mid/, prep. amid. Also, 'mid. mid3 /mid/, n. Informal. a midshipman. [by shortening] |
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