MIDDLE DISTANCE

Meaning of MIDDLE DISTANCE in English

1. Also called middle ground, middle plane . Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.

2. (in track) a race distance ranging from 400 meters or 440 yards to 1 mile.

[ 1805-15 ]

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

MIDDLE DISTANCE — noun Date: 1803 a part of a pictorial representation or scene between the foreground and the background, any footrace distance …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MIDDLE DISTANCE — noun 1. : a part of a pictorial representation or scene that is between the foreground and the background — …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MIDDLE DISTANCE — Date: 1803 1. : a part of a pictorial representation or scene between the foreground and the background 2. : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MIDDLE DISTANCE — Function: noun Date: 1803 1 : a part of a pictorial representation or scene between the foreground and the background …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
MIDDLE DISTANCE — ■ noun 1》 the part of a landscape between the foreground and the background. 2》 [as modifier ] Athletics denoting …
Concise Oxford English vocab
MIDDLE DISTANCE — [middle distance] n (1813) 1: a part of a pictorial representation or scene between the foreground and the background 2: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — middle-distance BrE AmE ˌmɪd ə l ˈdɪst ə n t s ◂
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — adjective [ only before noun ] ( sport ) connected with running a race over a distance that is neither …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE DISTANCE — noun [ sing. ] the part of a painting or a view that is neither very close nor very far …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — ˈmiddle-ˌdistance BrE AmE adjective [only before noun] a middle-distance race is neither very short nor very long, for example 800 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MIDDLE DISTANCE — ˌmiddle ˈdistance BrE AmE noun the middle distance the part of a picture or view that is between the nearest …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MIDDLE DISTANCE — 1. If you are looking into the middle distance , you are looking at a place that is neither near …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE DISTANCE — 1. If you are looking into the ~, you are looking at a place that is neither near nor far …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Many of his compositions play with the merging of foreground, middle-distance and background details into …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
MIDDLE DISTANCE — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Captain Samphan was walking fast across the road in the middle distance , ordering some …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — adj.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — adj. Middle-distance is used with these nouns: ↑ event , ↑ runner , ↑ running
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
MIDDLE DISTANCE — (искусство) средний план - in the * на втором плане
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — (спортивное) относящийся к средней дистанции - * race бег на среднюю дистанцию - * runner бегун на среднюю дистанцию
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MIDDLE DISTANCE — иск. средний план in the middle distance - на втором плане
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — a спорт. относящийся к средней дистанции middle-distance race - бег на среднюю дистанцию middle-distance runner - бегун на среднюю дистанцию
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
MIDDLE DISTANCE — (r) относящийся к средней дистанции
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — a спорт. относящийся к средней дистанции ~ race - бег на среднюю дистанцию ~ runner - бегун на среднюю дистанцию
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
MIDDLE DISTANCE — иск. средний план in the ~ - на втором плане
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
MIDDLE DISTANCE — иск. средний план in the middle distance - на втором плане
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
MIDDLE-DISTANCE — a спорт. относящийся к средней дистанции middle-distance race - бег на среднюю дистанцию middle-distance runner - бегун на среднюю дистанцию
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
MIDDLE DISTANCE — средний план
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MIDDLE DISTANCE — средний план
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MIDDLE DISTANCE — средний план
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
MIDDLE DISTANCE — средний план
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MIDDLE-DISTANCE — (спортивное) относящийся к средней дистанции - * race бег на среднюю дистанцию - * runner бегун на среднюю дистанцию
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
MIDDLE DISTANCE — (искусство) средний план - in the * на втором плане
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
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
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
DISTANCE — I. ˈdistən(t)s noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English distaunce, from Old French destance, distance, from Latin distantia, from distant-, …
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
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
DISTANCE — — distanceless , adj. /dis"teuhns/ , n. , v. , distanced, distancing . n. 1. the extent or amount of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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
MIDDLE — adj intermediate; intervening. 2. middle ·adj the waist. 3. middle ·adj equally distant from the extreme either of a number …
Webster English vocab
DISTANCE — noun remoteness of place; a remote place. 2. distance ·vt to place at a distance or remotely. 3. distance ·noun …
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
MIDDLE — / ˈmɪdl; NAmE / noun , adjective ■ noun 1. the middle [ sing. ] the part of sth that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DISTANCE — / ˈdɪstəns; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C , U ] the amount of space between …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE — I. mid ‧ dle 1 S1 W2 /ˈmɪdl/ BrE AmE noun 1 . CENTRE PART the middle the part that …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DISTANCE — I. dis ‧ tance 1 S2 W2 /ˈdɪstəns/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: verb : ↑ distance ; noun …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
DISTANCE — n. & v. --n. 1 the condition of being far off; remoteness. 2 a a space or interval between two …
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 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DISTANCE — n. & v. n. 1 the condition of being far off; remoteness. 2 a a space or interval between two …
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 …
Oxford English vocab
DISTANCE — n. & v. --n. 1. the condition of being far off; remoteness. 2 a a space or interval between two …
Oxford English vocab
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
DISTANCE — ( distances, distancing, distanced) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The distance …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a middle position (= one that is between two extreme positions ) ▪ They …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DISTANCE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (at/from) a safe distance ▪ We watched from a safe distance. ▪ Drivers should …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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
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
MIDDLE — INDEX: 1. the middle 2. in the middle RELATED WORDS between two or more people or things : ↑ BETWEEN …
Longman Activator English vocab
DISTANCE — See ↑ DISTANCE 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ a short distance • ↑ from a distance/at a distance • ↑ in …
Longman Activator English vocab
DISTANCE — INDEX: 1. the distance between one place or point and another 2. to continue for a particular distance RELATED WORDS …
Longman Activator 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

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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