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middle ground
" I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well."
Kim Ki-duk

Meaning of "middle ground" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MIDDLE GROUND

middle ground


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MIDDLE GROUND

noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Middle ground is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MIDDLE GROUND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Argument to moderation

Argument to moderation is an informal fallacy which asserts that the truth can be found as a compromise between two opposite positions. This fallacy's opposite is the false dilemma. Vladimir Bukovsky points out that the middle ground between the Big Lie of Soviet propaganda and the truth is a lie, and one should not be looking for a middle ground between disinformation and information. According to him, people from the Western pluralistic civilization are more prone to this fallacy because they are used to resolving problems by making compromises and accepting alternative interpretations, unlike Russians who are looking for the absolute truth. An individual operating within the false compromise fallacy believes that the positions being considered represent extremes of a continuum of opinions, and that such extremes are always wrong, and the middle ground is always correct. This is not always the case. Sometimes only X or Y is acceptable, with no middle ground possible.

Definition of middle ground in the English dictionary

The definition of middle ground in the dictionary is a position of compromise between two opposing views, parties, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MIDDLE GROUND

middle ear · Middle East · Middle Eastern · middle eight · Middle England · Middle English · middle finger · Middle French · middle game · Middle Greek · Middle High German · Middle Irish · Middle Kingdom · middle lamella · Middle Low German · middle management · middle manager · middle name · middle of nowhere

WORDS THAT END LIKE MIDDLE GROUND

all-around · all-round · around · background · bound · break new ground · campground · fall to the ground · foreground · get around · get off the ground · ground · into the ground · playground · round · surround · the high ground · to the ground · turnaround · underground · year-round

Synonyms and antonyms of middle ground in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «middle ground» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MIDDLE GROUND

Find out the translation of middle ground to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of middle ground from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «middle ground» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

中间地带
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

término medio
570 millions of speakers
en

English

middle ground
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

बीच का रास्ता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سطا
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

середина
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

meio-termo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মধ্যস্তর
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

terrain d´entente
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

situasi yang membenarkan kedua-dua pihak untuk bersetuju
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Mittelweg
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

妥協点
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

중간
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Lemah tengah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trung đất
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

நடுத்தர தரையில்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मध्यम जमिनीवर
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

orta yere
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

terra di mezzo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

kompromis
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

середина
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

cale de mijloc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μέση λύση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

middeweg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

medelväg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

middelvei
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of middle ground

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MIDDLE GROUND»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of middle ground
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «middle ground».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about middle ground

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10 QUOTES WITH «MIDDLE GROUND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word middle ground.
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Cheryl Cole
I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.
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Paula Cole
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
3
Mike Davidson
You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.
4
Dustin Diamond
Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.
5
Michael Eisner
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.
6
Roger Federer
To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.
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Ace Frehley
People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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Austan Goolsbee
I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.
9
Kim Ki-duk
I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.
10
Ezra Koenig
Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIDDLE GROUND»

Discover the use of middle ground in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to middle ground and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the ...
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence.
Richard White, 2010
2
Middle Ground
In this provocative cautionary tale for teens, the sequel to Awaken, seventeen-year-old Maddie’s rebellion against the digital-only life grows dangerous.
Katie Kacvinsky, 2012
3
Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During ...
" Moreover, the work of destroying slavery and constructing a society of free labor proved to be as difficult in Maryland as in the former Confederacy-even more difficult, in some respects.
Barbara Jeanne Fields, 1985
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No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control ...
Masket shows that legislators can be perfectly content without parties that control agendas and does a terrific job of explaining the transition from free-wheeling legislators to rigidly partisan voting blocs.” —Sam Popkin, University ...
Seth Masket, 2009
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Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a ...
Katharine K. Wilkinson shows that, contrary to popular expectations, faith-based efforts are emerging and strengthening to address this problem. In the US, perhaps none is more significant than evangelical climate care.
Katharine K. Wilkinson, 2012
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The Power of the Middle Ground: A Couple's Guide to Renewing ...
Teaches mindful optimism, a function of being alive and responsive to real possibilities for positive change.
Marty Babits, 2008
7
No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest
The essays and personal narratives in No Middle Ground advance our understanding of the gendered underpinnings of activism that occurs outside the "middle ground" of conventional electoral and pressure group politics.
Kathleen M. Blee, 1998
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The Middle Ground
Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world.
Zoe Whittall, 2010
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People of the Middle Ground: A Century of Conflict and ...
This book tells the story of people in central Mindanao who, over time, developed a masterful capacity to borrow from the new without losing touch with the old, reimagining themselves not as willing Western clones or stubborn tribal ...
Ronald K. Edgerton, 2008
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Finding the Middle Ground: Krestovskii, Tur, and the Power ...
An examination of two influential women writers in the mid-nineteenth century which challenges many common assumptions about the development of the Russian literary tradition
Jehanne Gheith, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIDDLE GROUND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term middle ground is used in the context of the following news items.
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Australia: Labor picks a winner with 50% renewable energy target
... it creates a clear difference between Labor and the Coalition government, and may help Labor recapture some of the middle ground (yes, ... «pv magazine, Jul 15»
2
Select panel arrives at middle ground on GST
Parliamentarians are understood to have recommended a mechanism to do away with the contentious issue of a cascading effect of one per ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
3
A&P: the challenge of the middle ground
Part of the issue for A&P is that it has been caught in the difficult middle ground. At one end it had seen increasing price competition from ... «IGD Retail Analysis, Jul 15»
4
No Middle Ground in Texas Politics Any More
There is almost no middle ground left in Texas politics. Rice Political Science Professor Mark Jones has tracked every vote by every lawmaker ... «KTRH, Jul 15»
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Pa. medical pot bill may seek middle ground
HARRISBURG - At a time when state budget talks have yielded little progress, some legislators are working on bridging the gap on another ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
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Amid Black Lives Matter's movement, Los Angeles Mayor Eric …
As he heads into his re-election bid amid a national focus on civil rights, Garcetti is seeking a middle ground, one that supports Black Lives ... «LA Daily News, Jul 15»
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Can PAS even win more seats in GE14 after losing 'middle ground
“But you have lost the middle ground, so you can do what you like, but I think what PAS will be winning in the next GE is a few seats in Kelantan ... «Malay Mail Online, Jul 15»
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A Middle Ground Between Unlicensed Micropower & LPFM?
Michael Gaines contacted us after doing some research about the potential for very low power FM radio–something under 100 watts, but higher ... «Radio Survivor, Jul 15»
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Why Our Politics May Be on the Verge of Ultrapolarization
There is no middle ground or overlap between Walker's America and Clinton's coalition of blacks, Latinos, women, and young people. «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
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Take the middle ground to get needs heard, met
The virtue of the middle ground—being assertive—arises from the opportunity for everyone to clearly say what they want without judgment by ... «The News-Press, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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