mid1

[mid] /mɪd/
adjective
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.
Compare high (def 23), low (def 30).
noun
4.
Archaic. the middle.
Origin
before 900; Middle English, Old English midd- (both an adj. and the initial element of a compound; modern spellings such as mid autumn are probably a reanalysis of mid- as an adj.); cognate with Old High German mitti, Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis, Old Irish mide, Latin medius, Greek mésos, Sanskrit madhya middle, OCS mežda limit, border

mid2

[mid] /mɪd/
preposition
1.
amid.
Also, 'mid.

mid3

[mid] /mɪd/
noun, Informal.
1.
a midshipman.
Origin
by shortening

mid-

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

Mid.

1.
Midshipman.

mid.

1.
middle.

M.I.D.

1.
Master of Industrial Design.
Examples from the web for mid
  • In the early to mid nineties a clear gabber fashion took form.
  • The mid shore is dominated by barnacles, limpets and some fucus.
British Dictionary definitions for mid

mid1

/mɪd/
adjective
1.
(phonetics) of, relating to, or denoting a vowel whose articulation lies approximately halfway between high and low, such as e in English bet
noun
2.
an archaic word for middle
Word Origin
C12 midre (inflected form of midd, unattested); related to Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis

mid2

/mɪd/
preposition
1.
a poetic word for amid

mid-

combining form
1.
indicating a middle part, point, time, or position: midday, mid-April, mid-Victorian
Word Origin
Old English; see middle, mid1

mid.

abbreviation
1.
middle

Mid.

abbreviation
1.
Midshipman
Word Origin and History for mid
prep., adj.

Old English mid "with, in conjunction with, in company with, together with, among," from Proto-Germanic *medjaz (cf. Old Norse miðr, Old Saxon middi, Old Frisian midde, Old High German mitti, Gothic midjis "mid, middle"), from PIE *medhyo- "middle" (see medial (adj.)). Now surviving in English only as a prefix (mid-air, midstream, etc.); as a preposition it often is a shortened form of amid (cf. midshipman).

mid in Medicine

MID abbr.
minimal infecting dose

mid- pref.
Middle: midbrain.

Related Abbreviations for mid

MID

  1. message identifier
  2. Military Intelligence Division
  3. minimal infecting dose

mid.

middle