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Midline vs Midlife - What's the difference?

midline | midlife |

As nouns the difference between midline and midlife

is that midline is (anatomy|medicine) the medial line (or plane) of the body, which divides the body into halves that are mirror-images of each other while midlife is the middle period of one's life.

As an adjective midlife is

occurring in the middle point of one's life, about aged 40.

midline

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy, medicine) The medial line (or plane) of the body, which divides the body into halves that are mirror-images of each other.
  • (typography) The level of the top of the x-height of a typeface.

    • midlife

    English

    Alternative forms

    *mid-life

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Occurring in the middle point of one's life, about aged 40.

    • Noun

    (midlives)
  • The middle period of one's life.
  • * 2003 , Barbara Schave Klein, Not all twins are alike: psychological profiles of twinship (page 57)
    • Twins from all the patterns of twinship experienced this emotional disaster as young adults or in their midlives .
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 12, author=Curtis Pesmen, title=As Survivors, We Were Closer Than Lovers, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Now we were writing, talking, sharing bits of our lives again, glad that both of us were able to talk about our midlives (which we realized could very well have been our late lives). }}

    See also

    *mid-life crisis