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单词 mid-
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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
mid- combining form
  1. indicating a middle part, point, time, or position: midday, mid-April, mid-Victorian
Etymology: Old English; see middle, mid1
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
mid1 /mɪd/USA pronunciation   adj. [before a noun]
  1. being at or near the middle point of:in mid autumn.

mid2 or 'mid /mɪd/USA pronunciation   prep. 
  1. amid.

mid-, prefix. 
  1. mid- is attached to nouns and means "being at or near the middle point of'':midday;mid-Victorian;mid-twentieth century.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
mid1  (mid),USA pronunciation 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. Phonetics(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. 
  1. [Archaic.]the middle.
  • bef. 900; Middle English, Old English midd- (both an adjective, adjectival and the initial element of a compound; modern spellings such as mid autumn are probably a reanalysis of mid- as an adjective, adjectival); cognate with Old High German mitti, Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis, Old Irish mide, Latin medius, Greek mésos, Sanskrit madhya middle, Old Church Slavonic mežda limit, border

mid2  (mid),USA pronunciation prep. 
  1. amid.
Also, 'mid. 
mid3  (mid),USA pronunciation n. [Informal.]
  1. Informal Termsa midshipman.
  • by shortening

mid-, 
  1. a combining form representing mid 1 in compound words:midday; mid-Victorian.
  • see mid1 Middle English, Old English

Mid., 
  1. Midshipman.

mid., 
  1. middle.

M.I.D., 
  1. EducationMaster of Industrial Design.

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