Middle vs Belly - What's the difference?
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Middle is a synonym of belly. As nouns the difference between middle and belly is that middle is a centre, midpoint while belly is the abdomen. As an adjective middle is located in the middle; in between. As a verb belly is to position one's belly.
middle English
Alternative forms
* myddle (obsolete)
Noun
( en noun)
A centre, midpoint.
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The part between the beginning and the end.
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(cricket) The middle stump.
The central part of a human body.
(grammar) The middle voice.
Synonyms
* centre, center
* midpoint
* midst
Adjective
( -)
Located in the middle; in between.
- the middle point
- middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages
Central.
Pertaining to the middle voice.
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* middle age
* middle-aged
* Middle Ages
* middle child
* middle class
* Middle East
* middleman
* middle management
* middle passage
* middle path
* middleware
* middle way
Related terms
* mid-
* middle-
* middling
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belly English
Noun
( bellies)
The abdomen.
- (Dunglison)
The stomach, especially a fat one.
The womb.
* Bible, Jer. i. 5
- Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 454:
- There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.
The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
- the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, or ship
* Bible, Jonah ii. 2
- Out of the belly of hell cried I.
(architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
Derived terms
* beer belly
* bellyache
* belly button/belly-button
* belly dance/belly-dance
* belly dancer/belly-dancer
* belly dancing
* belly flop, bellyflop
* bellyful
* belly laugh/belly-laugh
* bellyless
* bellylike
* belly of the beast
* Delhi belly
* fire in the belly
* sawbelly
* sharpbelly
Usage notes
* Formerly, all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies: the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head.
See also
* have eyes bigger than one's belly
* abdomen
* bouk
* stomach
* tummy
Verb
To position one's belly.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge.
* Dryden
- The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
To cause to swell out; to fill.
* Shakespeare
- Your breath of full consent bellied his sails.
Derived terms
* belly up
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