subdivision | the act of subdividing, division of something previously divided |
lister lister plow lister plough middlebreaker middle buster | moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow |
subsection subdivision | a section of a section, a part of a part, i.e., a part of something already divided |
middle ear tympanic cavity tympanum | the main cavity of the ear, between the eardrum and the inner ear |
middle cerebral artery | one of two branches of the internal carotid artery, divides into three branches |
middle meningeal artery | branch of the maxillary artery, its branches supply meninges |
middle cerebral vein vena cerebri media | either of two cerebral veins |
deep middle cerebral vein | accompanies the middle cerebral artery deep in the Sylvian fissure, empties into the basal vein |
superficial middle cerebral vein | a large vein along the line of the Sylvian fissure to the cavernous sinus |
middle temporal vein | arises near the eye, joins the superficial temporal veins to form the retromandibular vein |
middle thyroid vein | a vein on each side that drains the lateral part of the thyroid and empties into the internal jugular vein |
middle midriff midsection | the middle area of the human torso (usually in front), young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable |
middle finger | the second finger, between the index finger and the ring finger |
middle | an intermediate part or section, A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end- Aristotle |
middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background |
middle name | a name between your first name and your surname |
section subdivision | a selfontained part of a larger composition (written or musical), he always turns first to the business section, the history of this work is discussed in the next section |
middle term | the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion |
middle C | the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff, . hertz |
Middle English | English from about to |
Middle High German | High German from to |
Middle Low German | Low German from to |
Middle Irish | Irish Gaelic from to |
Medieval Greek Middle Greek Byzantine Greek | the Greek language from about to AD |
middle class bourgeoisie | the social class between the lower and upper classes |
secondary school lyceum lycee Gymnasium middle school | a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college, usually grades to |
branch subdivision arm | a division of some larger or more complex organization, a branch of Congress, botany is a branch of biology, the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages |
center centre middle heart eye | 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 |
Midwest middle west midwestern United States | the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) |
subdivision | an area composed of subdivided lots |
Middle East Mideast Near East | the area around the eastern Mediterranean, from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran, the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam, had continuous economic and political turmoil in the th century, the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization |
centrist middle of the roader moderate moderationist | a person who takes a position in the political center |
middle-aged man | a man who is roughly between and years old |
Gnetopsida class Gnetopsida Gnetophytina subdivision Gnetophytina Gnetophyta | gymnospermous flowering plants, supposed link between conifers and angiosperms, in some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta) |
Cycadopsida class Cycadopsida Cycadophytina subdivision Cycadophytina Cycadophyta subdivision Cycadophyta | palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders, possibly not a natural group, in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta) |
Coniferopsida class Coniferopsida Coniferophytina subdivision Coniferophytina Coniferophyta | cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period, most are substantial trees, includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian) |
Pinopsida class Pinopsida Pinophytina subdivision Pinophytina | most conifers: in some systems classified as a class (Pinopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Pinophytina), used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta |
Taxopsida class Taxopsida Taxophytina subdivision Taxophytina | yews: in some systems classified as a class (Taxopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Taxophytina) used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta |
Ginkgopsida class Ginkgopsida Ginkgophytina class Ginkgophytina subdivision Ginkgophytina subdivision Ginkgophyta | ginkgos: in some systems classified as a class and in others as a subdivision, used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta |
Pteropsida subdivision Pteropsida | used in former classifications to include all ferns and flowering plants and divided into the three classes Filicinae and Gymnospermae and Angiospermae |
Zygomycota subdivision Zygomycota Zygomycotina subdivision Zygomycotina | division of fungi having sexually produced zygospores |
Mastigomycota subdivision Mastigomycota Mastigomycotina subdivision Mastigomycotina | fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile, in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota |
Deuteromycota subdivision Deuteromycota Deuteromycotina Fungi imperfecti subdivision Deuteromycotina | large and heterogeneous form division of fungi comprising forms for which no sexually reproductive stage is known |
Basidiomycota subdivision Basidiomycota Basidiomycotina subdivision Basidiomycotina | comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium, includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi), in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi |
Ascomycota subdivision Ascomycota Ascomycotina subdivision Ascomycotina | a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes, sac fungi, in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi |
conductive hearing loss conduction deafness middle-ear deafness | hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear |
Holocene Holocene epoch Recent Recent epoch | approximately the last , years |
Pleistocene Pleistocene epoch Glacial epoch | from two million to thousand years ago, extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere, the time of human evolution |
Pliocene Pliocene epoch | from million to million years ago, growth of mountains, cooling of climate, more and larger mammals |
Miocene Miocene epoch | from million to million years ago, appearance of grazing mammals |
Oligocene Oligocene epoch | frommillion to million years ago, appearance of sabertoothed cats |
Eocene Eocene epoch | from million tomillion years ago, presence of modern mammals |
Paleocene Paleocene epoch | from million to million years ago, appearance of birds and earliest mammals |
Jurassic Jurassic period | frommillion to million years ago, dinosaurs, conifers |
middle age | the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., betweenandyears of age) |
Middle Paleolithic | the time period of Neanderthal man, ended about , years BC |
epoch | a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages |
era epoch | a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event |
ice age glacial period glacial epoch | any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface, the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene |
Middle Ages Dark Ages | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance |
middle | time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period, the middle of the war, rain during the middle of April |
graveyard watch middle watch midwatch night watch | a watch during the night (as from midnight to a.m.) |
epoch date of reference | (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded |
middle | put in the middle |
middle-clas | occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy |
lower-middle-class | occupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society |
upper-middle-class | occupying the upper part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society |
center(a) halfway middle(a) midway | equally distant from the extremes |
middle | between an earlier and a later period of time, in the middle years, in his middle thirties |
middle | of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages, Middle English is the English language from about to , Middle Gaelic |
middle Atlantic mid-Atlantic | of a region of the United States generally including Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and usually New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, mid-Atlantic states |
in-between mediate middle | 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 |
middle-of-the-road | not extreme, especially in political views |
middle-aged | being roughly between and years old |
centrist middle-of-the-road | supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative |
epochal epoch-making | highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era, epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill, an epoch-making discovery |
middle-level | intermediate in rank or position, middle-level management |
Middle Eastern | of or relating to or located in the Middle East |
Jurassic | of or relating to or denoting the second period of the Mesozoic era |
pre-Jurassic | of or relating to or denoting the time before the Jurassic period |