middle

medio, centro

Lugar situado a igual distancia de los lados o extremos de algo.

En inglés sencillo: The place halfway between the sides or ends of something.

• Stand in the middle.
• She cut the rope down the middle.
• A car stopped in the middle of the road.

Cómo se usa: middle of something (Put the bowl in the middle of the table.)

Sinónimos: centre, midpoint

Antónimos: edge

Expresiones frecuentes: in the middle, middle of something, down the middle, exact middle

mitad, medio

Parte de un periodo o una actividad entre su comienzo y su final.

En inglés sencillo: The part of a period or activity between its beginning and end.

• I woke up in the middle of the night.
• The story becomes exciting near the middle.
• She left in the middle of our conversation.

Cómo se usa: middle of something (The phone rang in the middle of the lesson.)

Sinónimos: midpoint

Expresiones frecuentes: middle of something, in the middle, towards the middle

central, intermedio

Situado entre otras cosas o a igual distancia de los lados o extremos de algo.

En inglés sencillo: Between other things, or halfway between the sides or ends of something.

• Put it on the middle shelf.
• She is the middle child of three.
• The middle seats were already taken.

Sinónimos: central

Antónimos: outer

Expresiones frecuentes: middle seat, middle child, middle shelf