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middle distance
noun
- Also called middle ground, Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- (in track) a race distance ranging from 400 meters or 440 yards to 1 mile.
middle-distance
adjective
- athletics relating to or denoting races of a length between the sprints and the distance events, esp the 800 metres and the 1500 metres
noun
- Also calledmiddle ground part of a painting, esp a landscape between the foreground and far distance
Word History and Origins
Origin of middle distance1
Example Sentences
Aleeya Hutchins, a middle distance track runner at Wake Forest, doesn’t have any combat sports experience.
Springsteen was famous for refusing to cave to advertisers across his 48-year career, but now here he is on our Super Bowl screens, squinting into the middle distance like a parody of himself.
Low-hanging clouds nestle among the layers of mountains; horses and cows graze in the middle distance.
Hamilton competed in middle-distance running at the Games in 1992, 1996, and 2000 but never scored a medal.
Kipketer currently holds eight of the 17 all-time fastest 800m times, a middle-distance track event.
Behind her, in the middle distance, he sees a train racing toward the intersection.
Her wide-set eyes sometimes drifted to the middle distance as her co-stars answered questions.
It was a well-executed wood-cut, showing a dingue in the foreground and, to give scale, a mammoth in the middle distance.
In the middle distance ahead of her she could see the summits of Bulbarrow and of Nettlecombe Tout, and they seemed friendly.
The Bird Woman chose the middle distance, and for a last time cautioned the Angel as she moved away to lie down and shoot high.
My idea is that what artists call middle distance is better suited to her colouring.
I look into the jumbled stores of the middle distance of memory, and Beckenham seems to me a quite transitory phase.
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