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mid



Pronunciation: (mid), [key]
—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.
Archaic.the middle.

mid



Pronunciation: (mid), [key]
—prep.
amid. Also,'mid.

mid



Pronunciation: (mid), [key]
—n. Informal.
a midshipman.

mid-




a combining form representing mid 1 in compound words: midday; mid-Victorian.

Mid.




Midshipman.

mid.




middle.

M.I.D.




Master of Industrial Design.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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