middle
     adj 1: 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" [syn:
            {in-between}, {mediate}]
     2: equally distant from the extremes [syn: {center(a)}, {halfway},
         {middle(a)}, {midway}]
     3: 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"
        [ant: {late}, {early}]
     4: between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the
        middle years"; "in his middle thirties" [ant: {late}, {early}]
     n 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" [syn: {center}, {centre}, {heart}, {eye}]
     2: an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has
        beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle [ant: {end}, {beginning}]
     3: the middle area of the human torso (usually in front);
        "young American women believe that a bare midriff is
        fashionable" [syn: {midriff}, {midsection}]
     4: time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period;
        "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
        [ant: {end}, {beginning}]
     v : put in the middle
Source: WordNet® 2.0