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MID
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used in combination to denote the middle
Example:
a mid-June wedding
Classified under:
Similar:
middle (between an earlier and a later period of time)
Context examples:
'With their rifles grasped in their stiffened hands, mid a ring of the dead and dyin',' as some fathead sings.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An artery that arises from the posterior cerebral artery and supplies the mid brain.
(Mesencephalic Perforating Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
Once the catheter is positioned in the opening of the aortic valve it releases the bioprosthesis at the mid part of the aortic valve.
(Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement, NCI Thesaurus)
You may not realize how much you have grown—think back to where you were in 2016 and early-to-mid 2017, before this trend began.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The inner most portion of the prostatic parenchyma surrounding the mid and proximal portions of the prostatic urethra where the ejaculatory ducts enter the urethra.
(Periurethral Zone of the Prostatic Parenchyma, NCI Thesaurus)
In fact, some of its stars were first observed in the mid-1980s with the Infrared Astronomical Survey (IRAS), a joint mission between NASA, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)
One of the oldest original early American pig strains, the Hampshire pig originated from the Old English breed and was imported to North American in the mid-1800s.
(Hampshire Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
Oceans are expected to lose about 3-4% of their oxygen by the end of this century, but the impact will be much greater in the levels closest to the surface, where many species are concentrated, and in the mid to high latitudes.
(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Maintained as an outbred stock until the mid-1980s, then brother x sister mating initiated by A.P. Provoost to produce two strains designated FHH (also known as FHR) and FHL, which differ in hypertension and proteinuria.
(FHH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
We desired it should be opened, and one of us stepping into it, found himself up to the mid leg in a sort of dust, some part whereof flying up to our faces set us both a sneezing for several times together.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
