MIDDLE-AGE SPREAD

Meaning of MIDDLE-AGE SPREAD in English

/mid"l ayj'/

an increase in bulk, esp. in the waist and buttocks, associated with the onset of middle age and the body's decreasing ability to metabolize calories efficiently.

[ 1935-40 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

MIDDLE-AGE SPREAD — (also ˌmiddle-aged ˈspread ) noun [ U ] ( humorous ) the fat around the stomach that some people develop …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE-AGE SPREAD — See ↑ FAT 5
Longman Activator English vocab
MIDDLE AGE SPREAD — n infml He's beginning to get a middle age spread — У него появился возрастной жирок
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современной разговорной лексики - Глазунов
MIDDLE AGE SPREAD — n infml He's beginning to get a middle age spread — У него появился возрастной жирок
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современной разговорной лексики
MIDDLE AGE SPREAD — middle age spread n infml He's beginning to get a middle age spread У него появился возрастной жирок
Англо-Русский новый словарь современного неформального английского языка
MIDDLE AGE SPREAD — He's beginning to get a middle age spread — У него появился возрастной жирок
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современного неформального английского
MIDDLE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Middle Congo Middle Stone Age Middle Ages Middle East Middle English {{link=Middle East Treaty …
Английский словарь Британика
AGE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) age set Augustan Age Bronze Age Copper Age Hellenistic Age ice age Iron Age …
Английский словарь Британика
SPREAD — I. ˈspred verb ( spread ; spread ; spreading ; spreads ) Etymology: Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MIDDLE — I. ˈmid ə l adjective Etymology: Middle English middel, from Old English; akin to Old Frisian middel middle, Old Saxon …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
AGE — I. ˈāj noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French aage, eage, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin aetaticum, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
-AGE — ij, ēj also əj noun suffix ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -aticum 1. : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MIDDLE — (a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the …
Английский словарь Webster
MIDDLE — ( a. ) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SPREAD — /spred/ , v. , spread, spreading , n. , adj. v.t. 1. to draw, stretch, or open out, esp. over …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MIDDLE — /mid"l/ , adj., n., v., middled, middling . adj. 1. equally distant from the extremes or outer limits; central: the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
AGE — /ayj/ , n. , v. , aged, aging or ageing . n. 1. the length of time during which a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SPREAD — I. ˈspred verb ( spread ; spread·ing ) Etymology: Middle English spreden, from Old English -sprǣdan; akin to Old High …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MIDDLE — I. ˈmi-d ə l adjective Etymology: Middle English middel, from Old English; akin to Old English midde Date: before 12th …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SPREAD — noun extent; compass. 2. spread ·noun expansion of parts. 3. spread ·- imp. & ·p.p. of spread, v. 4. spread …
Webster English vocab
MIDDLE — adj intermediate; intervening. 2. middle ·adj the waist. 3. middle ·adj equally distant from the extreme either of a number …
Webster English vocab
AGE — noun a long time. 2. age ·noun a century; the period of one hundred years. 3. age ·noun a great …
Webster English vocab
SPREAD — [spread] vb spread ; spread.ing [ME spreden, fr. OE -spraedan; akin to OHG spreiten to spread] vt (13c) 1 a: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MIDDLE — middle BrE AmE ˈmɪd ə l ▷ middle|s z ▶ ˌ middle ˈ age BrE AmE ▶ ˌ Middle ˈ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SPREAD — / spred; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( spread , spread ) OPEN / ARRANGE 1. [ vn …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE — / ˈmɪdl; NAmE / noun , adjective ■ noun 1. the middle [ sing. ] the part of sth that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
AGE — / eɪdʒ; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C , U ] the number of years that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SPREAD — I. spread 1 S2 W2 /spred/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle spread ) [ Language: Old …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MIDDLE — I. mid ‧ dle 1 S1 W2 /ˈmɪdl/ BrE AmE noun 1 . CENTRE PART the middle the part that …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
AGE
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SPREAD — v. & n. --v. (past and past part. spread) 1 tr. (often foll. by out) a open or extend the …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MIDDLE — adj., n., & v. --attrib.adj. 1 at an equal distance from the extremities of a thing. 2 (of a member …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
AGE — n. & v. --n. 1 a the length of time that a person or thing has existed or is likely …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SPREAD — v. & n. v. (past and past part. spread) 1 tr. (often foll. by out) a open or extend the …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MIDDLE — adj., n., & v. attrib.adj. 1 at an equal distance from the extremities of a thing. 2 (of a member …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
AGE — n. & v. n. 1 a the length of time that a person or thing has existed or is likely …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SPREAD — v. & n. --v. (past and past part. spread) 1. tr. (often foll. by out) a open or extend the …
Oxford English vocab
MIDDLE — adj., n., & v. --attrib.adj. 1. at an equal distance from the extremities of a thing. 2 (of a member …
Oxford English vocab
AGE — n. & v. --n. 1. a the length of time that a person or thing has existed or is likely …
Oxford English vocab
SPREAD — ( spreads, spreading, spread) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE — ( middles) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. The middle of something …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
AGE — ( ages, ageing, aging, aged) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: The …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SPREAD — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a blaze spreads ▪ The blaze quickly spread to a neighbouring house. a disease …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
MIDDLE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a middle position (= one that is between two extreme positions ) ▪ They …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
AGE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SPREAD — [noun] [U]The spread of AIDS in the last few years has been alarming.The spread of something is the area or …
Cambridge English vocab
MIDDLE — [adjective] [before noun; not gradable]In the sequence a, b, c, d, e the middle letter is c, because there are …
Cambridge English vocab
AGE — n. age set Augustan Age Bronze Age Copper Age Hellenistic Age ice age glacial age Iron Age Jacobean age Middle …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
MIDDLE — n. Middle West Middle Congo Middle Stone Age Middle Ages Middle East Middle English Middle East Treaty Organization
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
MIDDLE — Synonyms and related words : active, active voice, amidships, arbitrational, arbitrative, average, axial, axis, balance, bisect, center, center of action, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SPREAD — INDEX: 1. fire/liquid/gas 2. information/feelings/ideas/problems etc 3. when a disease spreads 4. to spread things over a wide area 5. …
Longman Activator English vocab
MIDDLE — INDEX: 1. the middle 2. in the middle RELATED WORDS between two or more people or things : ↑ BETWEEN …
Longman Activator English vocab
AGE — INDEX: 1. how long someone has lived or something has existed 2. ways of saying how old someone is 3. …
Longman Activator English vocab
SPREAD — v. 1 Often, spread out. diffuse, distribute, disperse, disseminate, broadcast, sow, scatter, strew, shed, dispel, dissipate Spread the mulch as …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
MIDDLE — adj. 1 central, centre, halfway, mid, midway, mean, medial, Technical mesial We had reached the middle stage of our journey …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
MIDDLE — I adjective 1 BAD : The girl was of middle height and was wearing a blue suit. GOOD : The …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
AGE — noun 1 BAD : I'm at the age of 22. GOOD : I'm 22 (years old). ◆◆◆ be + NUMBER …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
SPREAD — 1. сущ. 1) а) распространение б) растяжение, расширение 2) простор, пространство; простирание; протяженность Syn : expanse 3) то, что можно …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MIDDLE — 1. сущ. 1) середина а) центральная часть чего-л. in the middle of Syn : centre, midst, center б) среднее состояние, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
AGE — 1. сущ. 1) возраст to live to (reach) an age ≈ дожить до определенного возраста people of all ages ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SPREAD — spread.ogg 1. spred n 1. 1> распространение; рост, увеличение the spread of disease of knowledge, of science - распространение болезни …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
MIDDLE — middle.ogg 1. mıdl n 1. середина (right) in the (very) middle of the room of the day, of the summer …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
AGE — age.ogg 1. eıdʒ n 1. 1> возраст middle age - средний возраст a man of middle age - человек средних …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SPREAD — 1) распространение; простирание, протяжение || распространять(ся); простираться 2) расширение; уширение || расширять(ся); уширять(ся) 3) рассеивание || рассеиваться 4) зона [область] …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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