halfway vs middle what difference
what is difference between halfway and middle
English
Etymology
From Middle English halfwey, from Old English healfweġ (“half-way”), equivalent to half- + way. Cognate with Saterland Frisian hoolfwais (“halfway”), Dutch halfweg (“halfway”), German halbwegs (“halfway”), Danish halvvejs (“halway”), Swedish halvvägs (“halfway”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /hæfweɪ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /hɑːfˈweɪ/
Adverb
halfway (not comparable)
- Half of the way between two points; midway.
- Moderately; somewhat.
- a halfway decent place to sleep
Derived terms
- meet halfway
Translations
See also
- halfways
English
Alternative forms
- myddle (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English middel, from Old English middel, middle (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with West Frisian middel, Dutch middel, German mittel (“middle”, adjective), German Mittel (“middle, means”, noun), Danish middel (“means, agent, medicine”). Related also to Swedish medel (“means, medium”), Icelandic meðal (“means, medicine”). See also mid.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɪdəl/, [ˈmɪ.ɾɫ̩]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɪdəl/, [ˈmɪ.dəɫ], [ˈmɪ.dʊ]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmɪdəl/, [ˈmɪ̝.dəɫ], [ˈmɪ̝.dʊ], [ˈmɪ̝.ɾ-]
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈmɘdɘl/, [ˈmə.dɯ(ɫ)], [ˈmə.ɾ-]
- Rhymes: -ɪdəl
Noun
middle (plural middles)
- A centre, midpoint.
- The part between the beginning and the end.
- (cricket) The middle stump.
- The central part of a human body; the waist.
- Fasting In A Fast World
- If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.
- Fasting In A Fast World
- (grammar) The middle voice.
Synonyms
- (centre): centre, center, midpoint; see also Thesaurus:midpoint
- (part between the beginning and the end): centre, center, midst
Translations
Adjective
middle (not comparable)
- Located in the middle; in between.
- the middle point
- middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages
- Central.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:intermediate
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
- mid-
- middle– (in compounds; not a prefix)
- middling
Verb
middle (third-person singular simple present middles, present participle middling, simple past and past participle middled)
- (obsolete) To take a middle view of. [17th–18th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 27:
- And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 27:
- (obsolete, nautical, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle. [19th c.]
Middle English
Adjective
middle
- inflection of middel:
- weak singular
- strong/weak plural