1. center, centre, eye, heart, middle

an area that is approximately central within some larger region

Example Sentences:
'it is in the center of town'
'they ran forward into the heart of the struggle'
'they were in the eye of the storm'

• center
• centre
• eye
• heart

2. middle

an intermediate part or section

Example Sentences:
'A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end'

3. middle, midriff, midsection

the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)

Example Sentences:
'young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable'

• midriff
• midsection

4. middle

time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period

Example Sentences:
'the middle of the war'
'rain during the middle of April'

5. middle

put in the middle

6. in-between, mediate, middle

being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

Example Sentences:
'adolescence is an awkward in-between age'
'in a mediate position'
'the middle point on a line'

• in-between
• mediate

7. center, halfway, middle, midway

equally distant from the extremes

• center
• halfway
• midway

8. middle

of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages

Example Sentences:
'Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500'
'Middle Gaelic'

9. middle

between an earlier and a later period of time

Example Sentences:
'in the middle years'
'in his middle thirties'