Middle in spanish
pronunciation: medioʊ part of speech: noun, adjective
middle1 = medio, mitad. [Nombre]
Example: The purpose of the insert key is to allow the insertion of one or more characters in the middle of a field without disturbing the information already displayed.more:
» caught in the middle = verse en medio de, estar en medio de. [Generalmente usado en el pasado]
Example: As the group of professionals most often caught in the middle of copyright infringement disputes, librarians have a duty to teach their users about these issues and hopefully avoid these disputes.» cut + Nombre + open (right) down the middle = rajar por la mitad, abrir en canal.
Example: Take a whole chicken, cut it open down the middle of the breast, flatten it out, and rub it with a little oil and spices.» divide + Nombre + down the middle = dividir Algo por la mitad, dividir Algo en partes iguales.
Example: If your horse has a thick or double mane, you may need to divide it down the middle and braid it on both sides.» down the middle (of) = por la mitad (de), por el medio (de).
Example: This is the incredible moment a priest who did not 'have a care in the world' walked down the middle of a motorway after crashing his car.» in the middle of = en medio de, en mitad de, entre medio de.
Example: Anyone who knows Jakarta at all will know that the Hotel Indonesia is smack in the middle of the city.» in the middle of a conversation = en medio de una conversación, en mitad de una conversación.
Example: Is it wrong that I feel annoyed when guests at my house start texting in the middle of a conversation?.» in the middle of nowhere = en mitad de la nada, en el medio de la nada, en el quinto pino, en medio de ninguna parte, en mitad de ningún sitio, en mitad de ninguna parte, en medio de ningún sitio, quién sabe dónde, en un lugar dejado de la mano de Dios, donde Cristo perdió las sandalias, donde Cristo perdió las alpargatas, en el culo del mundo, en el quinto infierno.
Example: The chance to stay in the middle of a rainforest in the middle of nowhere and nobody else around us was too good an opportunity to miss.» in the middle of the day = en mitad del día.
Example: It was as if a scowling Zeus, the weather god, were hurling lightning and flinging hail at hapless concertgoers in the middle day of the music festival.» in the middle of the night = en mitad de la noche.
Example: The man awoke moaning with pain in the middle of the night, and was having trouble breathing.» in the middle of the summer = en mitad del verano, en pleno verano.
Example: Water temperatures range from the 50's in the spring and fall to the low 70s in the middle of the summer.» in the middle of the winter = en mitad del invierno, en pleno invierno.
Example: I was born in the middle of the winter when nature was asleep.» middle-distance = a media distancia, de media distancia, de medio fondo.
Example: There may be some situations where either dehydration or hyperthermia could impact middle-distance performance, for example if an athlete began a run without appropriate preparation.» middle-of-the-road = medio, normal, moderado.
Example: The solution to these problems is to take a middle-of-the-road approach to politics and to encourage others to do the same thing.» pig(gy) in the middle = entre dos fuegos.
Example: This `job opportunity' can put all Polish people of Northern Ireland as a piggy in the middle -- between two sides of the conflict -- and face discrimination from both of them.» plumb in the middle (of) = justo en el centro (de), justo en el medio (de), en el mismo centro (de).
Example: The best known is probably Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming, just about plumb in the middle of the continent.» slap-bang in the middle (of) = justo en el centro (de), justo en el medio (de), en el mismo centro (de).
Example: Corsica is a small mountainous island situated slap-bang in the middle of the Mediterranean sea close to Italy and Sardinia = Córcega es una isla montañosa situada justo en el medio del mar Mediterráneo cerca de Italia y Cerdeña.» slit + Nombre + open (right) down the middle = rajar por la mitad, abrir en canal.
Example: I tend to slit it open down the middle so it's almost in half and stuff with cheese, then fold back together and wrap in bacon before roasting in the oven.» smack in the middle (of) = justo en el centro (de), justo en el medio (de), en el mismo centro (de).
Example: I love getting off the subway at 42nd Street, walking up those stairs and just being smack in the middle of all the hustle and bustle of New York.» split down the middle = quedarse en tablas.
Example: The result was a virtual split down the middle on some aspects of the systems, with staff on one side and students on the other.» split + Nombre + down the middle = dividir Algo por la mitad, dividir Algo en partes iguales.
Example: Polls indicate that the public is split down the middle on whether to remain in the EU or not.middle2 = intermedio, del medio, del centro, central. [Adjetivo]
Example: Wilensky has argued that 'the good, the mediocre and the trashy are becoming fused in one massive middle mush' and that 'intellectuals are increasingly tempted to play to mass audiences'.more:
» Early Middle Ages, the = Alta Edad Media, la.
Example: The Vatican Archives represent one of the principal sources for the history of the papacy from the Early Middle Ages to the present.» give + Alguien + the (middle) finger = hacer un corte de mangas.
Example: So many images of celebrities giving the middle finger have clearly been Photoshopped but this one, by gum, has not!.» give + Nombre + the middle finger = mandar a tomar por culo. [Mostrando el dedo medio en el aire con la mano hacia arriba]
Example: The driver honked at her, slowed down and gave her the middle finger as he was driving away.» High Middle Ages, the = Alta Edad Media, la.
Example: The author endeavors to explore the religious aspirations or religious consciousness of the laity in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.» in the middle decades of = a mediados de.
Example: Today, with its population of almost 80,000, Wexler bears little resemblance to the roaring lumber center it became in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.» in the middle range = de mediana calidad.
Example: As we have seen, authorship and publishing are extremely chancy occupations and, whilst it is very common for books to fall below expectations in both sales and critical acclaim, it is also not uncommon for books to exceed their expectations and this can happen with general books in the middle range.» in the middle range of = en el nivel medio de, en el nivel intermedio de.
Example: In the middle range of authorship there is, then, quite a wide band of writing stretching from the scholarly to the market-orientated = En el nivel medio de autoría existe, pues, a una gran gama de producciones escritas que van desde lo científico a lo comercial.» late Middle Ages, the = baja Edad Media, la.
Example: Unfortunately, its conclusions are completely pedestrian, rarely going past the fact that there were old people in England in the late Middle Ages.» middle abdomen = vientre central.
Example: Abdominoplasty, known more commonly as a 'tummy tuck,' is a major surgical procedure to remove excess skin and fat from the middle and lower abdomen and to tighten the muscles of the abdominal wall.» middle-age = madurez.
Example: I like the confidence that middle-age brings.» middle-aged = de mediana edad, de edad mediana, maduro.
Example: One day, quite a few years ago now, a middle-aged mother discovered that her teenage daughter sometimes smoked pot with her friends after school.» Middle Ages = Edad Media, Medievo.
Example: In the latter Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, many catalogs contained entries arranged chronologically, often by imprint date for printed books.» middleborn = nacido en medio.
Example: Mating strategies also appeared to be influenced by birth order, most notably in the area of infidelity, with middleborns being the least likely birth order to cheat on a sexual partner.» middlebrow [middle-brow] = persona con nivel cultural medio, persona medianamente cultivada. [Nombre]
Example: People with a grade-school education, most of whose reading choices are in the low-brow category, cannot and do not easily read material written for the high-brow or even the increasingly college-trained middle-brow.» middlebrow [middle-brow] = de nivel cultural medio, de nivel intelectual medio, medianamente cultivado.
Example: These shows were vehemently dismissed by critics as middlebrow and lowbrow kitsch.» middle class, the = clase media, la.
Example: Do not list terms which have a common last word as a series (such as 'upper, middle, and working class').» middle ear = oído medio.
Example: The ear is responsible for hearing and balance and is made up of three parts -- the outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear.» Middle Eastern = del Medio Oriente, del Oriente Medio.
Example: The author analyses the union catalogues of periodicals in Middle Eastern languages in UK libraries = El autor analiza los catálogos colectivos de publicaciones períodicas en las lenguas del Oriente Medio en las bibliotecas británicas.» Middle Easterner = habitante del Medio Oriente.
Example: The mass media continually stereotype Muslims & Middle Easterners as terrorists.» Middle East, the = Oriente Medio, Medio Oriente.
Example: The P.L. 480 program for Middle East and South Asian countries, and the National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging are prime examples of this kind of effort to speed the cataloging of newly published materials.» middle finger = dedo (del) corazón, dedo medio.
Example: My daughter grabbed a hot appliance today and got a second-degree burn on her middle finger that quickly sprouted a large blister.» middle grade = enseñanza media.
Example: This paper describes how a middle grade school teacher uses a core list of books to capture the imagination of his students and to encourage them to write honestly about their lives.» middle grade = grado medio.
Example: The author discusses the practical personnel problems facing junior and middle grade professional librarians = El autor analiza los problemas prácticos de personal a los que se enfrentan los bibliotecarios de grado medio y básico.» middle-ground = de posición intermedia, moderado.
Example: Beginning with a middle-ground strategy may offer the best balance between Recall and Precision.» middle ground = punto intermedio.
Example: By contrasting polar types there is a danger of, first, suggesting that the two poles are in conflict with each other and, second, that there is no linking 'middle ground' between them.» middle income = de ingresos medios.
Example: The need to develop the communications infrastructure in low and middle income countries is now recognized by donor agencies as a prerequisite for the provision of aid.» middle initial = inicial del segundo nombre de pila de una persona.
Example: If you're not sure of the exact form of the phrase (Does the author have a middle initial?), enter as much of the phrase as you know.» middle management = nivel medio de gestión.
Example: The 3 levels of personnel requiring training are library administration, middle management and clerical staff.» middle manager = gestor de nivel medio.
Example: Middle managers and administrators agreed that library schools were unsuccessful in teaching administration and management.» middle name = nombre de pila segundo. [En los nombres anglosajones, segundo nombre propio que suele utilizarse sólo con la inicial]
Example: When using a catalog it is not necessary to know that my middle name is Gridley (although one OCLC-participating library thought so in cataloging a book I edited).» middle-of-the-range = normal, de gama media, de calidad media.
Example: In effect, the book started its life rather more as a light entertainment middle-of-the-range hardback autobiography but popular acclaim turned it into a huge mass-market paperback success.» middle-range = de nivel medio, de tipo medio. [Adjetivo]
Example: Obviously one must here distinguish between 'scholarly' texts, middle-range texts and what might be referred to derogatorily as 'crammers' (books intended to help students to pass examinations with the minimum amount of effort).» middle range = nivel medio.
Example: However, a glass ceiling exists which prevents competent women from moving upwards beyond the lower and middle ranges in organizations.» middle-ranking = de rango medio, de grado medio, de calidad media.
Example: To Pakistan and India, Britain is just another middle-ranking European country that has little to offer compared with the US.» middle road = camino intermedio, solución intermedia.
Example: I really do believe wholeheartedly that the middle road is the way to go -- anything extreme is not long-lasting.» middle school = colegio, escuela secundaria.
Example: He graduated from library school a year and a half ago, and served a one year stint as an assistant media specialist in a middle school media center = El se graduó en biblioteconomía hace un año y medio y durante un año trabajó como auxiliar especialista en multimedia en un centro multimedia de una escuela secundaria.» middle seat = asiento del medio.
Example: Most frequent flyers seem to prefer aisle seats; many leisure travelers like window seats, and just about everybody hates middle seats.» middle-sized = de mediano tamaño, de tamaño medio, de talla media.
Example: For people living in what might be called industrial-rural areas the best that could be expected locally would be a moderate provision in the local middle-sized town.» middle way = posición intermedia.
Example: A middle way between these views depends on the creation of a knowledge economy.» quality is our middle name = la calidad es nuestro lema.
Example: Customers choose an establishment and spend hard-earned money and they want employees to exude appreciation through the attitude that 'we aim to please, the customer is always right, service is our business, and quality is our middle name'.» raise + Posesivo + middle finger = mandar a tomar por culo. [Mostrando el dedo medio en el aire con la mano hacia arriba]
Example: Lady GaGa recently raised her middle finger to the paparazzi waiting for her at an airport.» tread + a middle path between ... and = estar a caballo entre... y..., intentar encontrar un término medio entre... y....
Example: This lavishly illustrated book ultimately fails in its attempt to tread a middle path between the scholarly and popular approaches to the Roman amphitheatre.» upper-middle class, the = clase media alta, la.
Example: Although neurasthenia was not originally defined as a feminine ailment, it was common in women, especially those of the middle and upper-middle classes between the ages of 20 and 40.middle3 = cintura.
Example: The supermodel put her cleavage on show with a daring neckline that plunged right down to her middle.