MIDDLE  中心

PLACE OR TIME at the SAME DISTANCE FROM BORDERS OR LIMITS SURROUNDING them, OR IN-RELATION-TO TWO SIDES.
CENTRECENTRALMIDMEANMEDIUMMEDIALMEDIANMIDWAYHALFWAY
Antonym
  • SIDEPLACE to the LEFT OR RIGHT, AND NOT IN FRONT OR BEHIND.
    Hypernym
    • PLACEPART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in.
      • PARTOBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to.
    Hyponym
    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 ／

    Old Chinese Contrasts
    LEIBNIZ 6.4 P. 36: M e d i u m (accurate) illud est quod inter duo situm est, et aeque ab illis distat.

    • 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

    Attributions by syntactic funtion

    • nadV : 9
    • nadN : 5
    • nab : 4
    • npost-.N+ZHI:adS : 3
    • n(ad.N1post-N2) : 2
    • NP : 2
    • NPab : 1
    • npost-N : 1
    • nadN : 1
    • n : 1
    • vt+prep+N : 1

    Attributions by text

    • 荀子 : 9
    • 毛詩 : 4
    • 祖堂集 : 4
    • 陸機集十一卷 : 2
    • 墨子 : 2
    • 笑林一卷 : 2
    • 韓非子 : 2
    • 春秋左傳 : 1
    • 阮籍集四卷 : 1
    • 尚書 : 1
    • 賢愚經 : 1
    • 法言 : 1

    Words

    中  zhōng OC: krluŋ MC: ʈuŋ 24 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPcenter
    徑  jìng OC: keeŋs MC: keŋ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • nadVmidway; temporally: before one has got to the end
    心  xīn OC: slɯm MC: sim 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • ncore; core wood
    衷  zhōng OC: krluŋ MC: ʈuŋ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Ncenter/heart
    中區  zhōng qū MC: trjuwng khju  OC: krluŋ kho CH 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPabmetaphysicalcentre of the aesthetic universeCH
    央  yāng OC: qaŋ MC: ʔi̯ɐŋ 0 AttributionsWD

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

      Syntactic words
    • nmiddle; center
    中平  zhōng píng OC: krluŋ breŋ MC: ʈuŋ bɣaŋ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
    天中  tiān zhōng OC: lʰiin krluŋ MC: then ʈuŋ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPcentre of the universe
    分  fēn OC: pɯn MC: pi̯un 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • npost-N
    胸  xiōng MC: xjowng OC: qhoŋCH 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Ncentre, coreCH

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