middle in WordNet English dictionary

1. an area that is approximately central within some larger region
   "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"
   center  centre  middle  heart  eye 
   
2. the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
   "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
   middle  midriff  midsection 
   
3. an intermediate part or section
   "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
   middle 
   
4. time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
   "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
   middle 
   

1. equally distant from the extremes
   center  halfway  middle  midway 
   
2. 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"
   in-between  mediate  middle 
   
3. between an earlier and a later period of time
   "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
   middle 
   
4. 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"
   middle 
   

1. put in the middle
   middle