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middling::adverb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fairly, jolly, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
middling::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | commodity, good, trade good |
Examples of middling
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The Box certainly didn't measure up to recent Diaz openings, even middling ones.
From the time.com
They don't like their team's middling start and have made this abundantly clear.
From the timesunion.com
The Patriots have had similar problems recently in signing middling free agents.
From the boston.com
Today's Buick is no longer a plebeian ride, a middling coach for Middle America.
From the washingtonpost.com
Wallace wants to talk about the economy, which has been middling, yet improving.
From the huffingtonpost.com
The film had middling box-office returns despite being well-received by critics.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The computer model used is of only middling sophistication, Dr Schmittner admits.
From the economist.com
Jackson apparently can't go several months without appearing in a middling movie.
From the washingtonpost.com
Lots of appearances, especially for a state with a middling 11 electoral votes.
From the stltoday.com
- Any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
- Average: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
- Reasonably: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
- (middle) put in the middle
- (middle) center: an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"
- (middle) in-between: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line"
- The assumptions of mediocrity principle is the notion in philosophy of science that there is nothing special about humans or the Earth. It is a Copernican principle, used either as a heuristic about Earth's position or as a philosophical statement about the place of humanity.
- A middlings purifier is a device used in the production of flour to remove the husks from the kernels of wheat. It was developed in Minnesota by Edmund LaCroix, a French inventor hired by Cadwallader C. Washburn and George Christian of the Washburn "A" Mill. ...
- (Middle (sheading)) Middle is one of six sheadings in the Isle of Man and consists of the parishes of Braddan, Marown and Santon or Santan. It lies to the east of the island. Historically it consisted of Braddan, Santan and Onchan. It is also a House of Keys constituency, electing one MHK.
