English-Thai Dictionary

middling

ADJ ปานกลาง  mediocre ordinary average pan-klang

 

middlings

N ผลิตภัณ ฑ์ มี คุณ ภาพ  pa-lid-ta-pan-me-kun-na-pab

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MIDDLING

a.Of middle rank, state, size or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; moderate. Thus we speak of people of the middling class or sort, neither high nor low; of a man of middling capacity or understanding; a man of middling size; fruit of a middling quality.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MIDDLING

MIDDLING Mid "dling, a.

 

Defn: Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. "A town of but middling size. " Hallam. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. Hawthorne. -- Mid "dling *ly, adv. -- Mid "dling *ness, n.

 

MIDDLINGS

MIDDLINGS Mid "dlings, n. pl.

 

1. A combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting; -- formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.

 

2. In the southern and western parts of the United States, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon; -- called also middles. Bartlett.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

middling

mid dling |ˈmidliNG, ˈmidlin ˈmɪdlɪŋ | ▶adjective moderate or average in size, amount, or rank: the village contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones. • neither very good nor very bad: he had had a fair to middling season. • [ predic. ] informal (of a person ) in reasonably good but not perfect health. ▶noun (middlings ) bulk goods of medium grade, esp. flour of medium fineness. ▶adverb [ as submodifier ] informal, dated fairly or moderately: middling rich. DERIVATIVES mid dling ly adverb ORIGIN late Middle English (originally Scots ): probably from mid- + the adverbial suffix -ling .

 

Oxford Dictionary

middling

mid |dling |ˈmɪd (ə )lɪŋ | ▶adjective moderate or average in size, amount, or rank: people on middling incomes. • neither very good nor very bad: he had had a good to middling season. ▶noun (middlings ) bulk goods of medium grade, especially flour of medium fineness. ▶adverb [ as submodifier ] informal, dated fairly or moderately: middling rich. DERIVATIVES middlingly adverb ORIGIN late Middle English (originally Scots ): probably from mid- + the adverbial suffix -ling .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

middling

middling adjective a town of the middling kind, neither rich nor poor: average, standard, normal, middle-of-the-road; moderate, ordinary, commonplace, everyday, workaday, tolerable, passable; run-of-the-mill, fair, mediocre, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable; informal OK, so-so, 'comme ci, comme ça', fair-to-middling, plain-vanilla.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

middling

middling adjective a spa town of the middling kind, neither rich nor poor: average, standard, normal, middle-of-the-road, in-between, medium; moderate, ordinary, common, commonplace, everyday, workaday, tolerable, passable, adequate; run-of-the-mill, fair, indifferent, mediocre, pedestrian, prosaic, uninspired, undistinguished, unexceptional, unexciting, unremarkable, lacklustre, forgettable, inferior, second-rate, amateur, amateurish; informal OK, so-so, bog-standard, fair-to-middling, (plain ) vanilla, nothing to write home about, no great shakes, not so hot, not up to much; NZ informal half-pie.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

middling

mid dling /mɪ́d (ə )lɪŋ /形容詞 ｟くだけて ｠〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗平均的な, 中くらいの, 並の 〈大きさ 質など 〉(average ).f à ir to m í ddling まあまあの .名詞 C 〖～s 〗中級品, 二級品 .