middling 的 3 个定义
- medium, moderate, or average in size, quantity, or quality: The returns on such a large investment may be only middling.
- mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian: The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling.
- Older Use. in fairly good health.
- moderately; fairly.
- middlings, any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.
- Often middlings .Also called middling meat .Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. salt pork or smoked side meat.
middling 近义词
adequate, okay
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- You could have schools with very middling results that are serving very disadvantaged kids and really contributing quite a lot to their education.
- I could ride a shortboard, get the occasional good wave, and stay out of the way of better surfers, but I had always been middling at best.
- The Clippers had little fan support, and they oscillated between being league bottom-dwellers and a middling franchise.
- When a once-celebrated author winds up teaching in a middling MFA program, he’s sure he’s squandered his chance at lasting success — until one of his promising pupils dies, inspiring the novelist to claim the student’s book idea as his own.
- Murphy had middling approval ratings before the pandemic, with one in five voters holding no opinion of how he was doing.
- He was living under the alias Alonso Rivera Muñoz as a middling real estate developer and art collector in Querétaro.
- After a few middling seasons from the revered hometown team, a few of the neighbors raised their eyebrows in surprise at the news.
- What if he had tried to come back, only to play a couple middling seasons and then grudgingly retire or, worse, become a backup?
- Unlike hoity-toity displays of pedigree fluff, the Average Joe Cat Show is a celebration of middling felines.
- This is a middling jobs report for the middle of the business cycle.
- I presume there will be more middling and half middling yields within twenty miles of Paris than in all Belgium.
- Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
- She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up.
- The head is conical, and of a middling size, with respect to the bulk of the body.
- Little did he think that that middling oat-bearing land was being minded and brooded upon.