MIDDLE    中心

PLACE OR TIME at the SAME DISTANCE FROM BORDERS OR LIMITS SURROUNDING them, OR IN-RELATION-TO TWO SIDES.
CENTRECENTRALMIDMEANMEDIUMMEDIALMEDIANMIDWAYHALFWAY
Modern Chinese Criteria
核心 中心 中央 重心 本位 重點 基點 主腦 主導 主體 主心骨 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • MIDNIGHT　MIDDLE of the NIGHT. (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
Antonym
  • SIDEPLACE to the LEFT OR RIGHT, AND NOT IN FRONT OR BEHIND.
Hypernym
  • PLACE　PART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in. (anc: 4/0, child: 39)
  • PART　OBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 8)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • Novyj objasnitel'nyj Slovar' Sinonimov Russkogo Jazyka ( APRESJAN 2004) p. 1023

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 12.37

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 12.38

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    MIDDLE

    medius refers to the physical middle of something in a purely local sense.

    mediocris denotes medium quality, with reference to worth.

  • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 179

    • Words (11 items)

    中  zhōng OC: krluŋ MC: ʈuŋ 27 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 國/STATE The dominant word is guó 國, and the word naturally focusses on the capital which defines the identity of the state, but from Warring States times the word does refer to the whole of the territory, as the term guó xiāo 國削 "the state was truncated" shows.

      Syntactic words
    • n(ad.N1post-N2)its middle part, the middle part of the contextually determiate NCH
    • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
    • nabmethodnon-one-sided middle path
    • nabtimemidday
    • nadNmid-
    • nadNcentralCH
    • nadNfigurativemiddle (>of the middle period)
    • nadVin mid-life; before one has grown old
    • nadVfigurativein the middle, in the centre, in a balanced positionLZ
    • nadVplacein the middle, in the center
    • npost-.N+ZHI:adSfigurativein the midst of NLZ
    • vifigurativeDELETE
    • vt+prep+Nstativebe situated at the centre of N
    中心  zhōng xīn OC: krluŋ slɯm MC: ʈuŋ sim 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPcenter
    衷  zhōng OC: krluŋ MC: ʈuŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Ncenter/heart
    中區  zhōng qū MC: trjuwng khju  OC: krluŋ kho 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabmetaphysicalcentre of the aesthetic universeCH
    徑  jìng OC: keeŋs MC: keŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nadVmidway; temporally: before one has got to the end
    心  xīn OC: slɯm MC: sim 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • ncore; core wood
    胸  xiōng MC: xjowng OC: qhoŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Ncentre, coreCH
    天中  tiān zhōng OC: lʰiin krluŋ MC: then ʈuŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPcentre of the universe
    分  fēn OC: pɯn MC: pi̯un 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npost-N
    中平  zhōng píng OC: krluŋ breŋ MC: ʈuŋ bɣaŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
    央  yāng OC: qaŋ MC: ʔi̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions

    Yāng 央 "middle, centre" cannot normally be used independently as a subject or object.

      Syntactic words
    • nmiddle; center