(business) Commodities that are of intermediate price, quality, or size. / (business) Partially refined ore or petroleum. / (milling) Low-grade or coarse flour; coarse wheat mixed with bran.

plural of middling

plural of middle

A centre, midpoint. / The part between the beginning and the end. / (cricket) The middle stump. / The central part of a human body; the waist. / (grammar) The middle voice.

Located in the middle; in between. / Central. / (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.

(obsolete) To take a middle view of. / (obsolete, nautical, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.

(colloquial, regional Britain) Fairly, moderately, somewhat. / (colloquial, regional Britain) Not too badly, with modest success.

Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre. / (colloquial, regional Britain) In fairly good health.

Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality. / (in the plural) Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the middle class.

simple past tense and past participle of middle