middling

middling englannista suomeksi

1. kohtalaisen

2. keskinkertainen, mukiinmenevä, kohtalainen

0. Substantiivi

middling englanniksi

1. Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.

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2. (quote-journal)(sub), Number 168.|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World|location=London|publisher=Printed by S. Smith and B. Walford, printers to the (w), at the Prince's Arms in St Paul's Cathedral|St. Paul's Church-yard|month=February|year=1700|year_published=1702|volume=XXII|issue=261|page=501|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsszuVUCL8oC&pg=RA1-PA501|oclc=630046584|passage=(..) I cannot think it unreaſonable, (..) to imagin the ſame natural cauſes may ſometimes act in t'other extreme likewiſe, and model Humane Bodies from a peculiar ''Energy'' in the ſeminal Principles, or a more perfect and through ''concoction'' in the ''Stomach'', and other ''Viſcera'', whence may proceed a peculiar and extraordinary nutritive faculty in the humours, for the furthering augmentation; or ſtill from ſome other more latent Spring, or ſecret Influence, to ariſe to ſuch a growth as fully to equal twice the heighth of (what we may then properly call) a ''middling ſtature'', taking the word in the moſt ſtrict ſenſe.

3. (quote-journal)&93;|journal=Review (London)|The Monthly Review; Or, Literary Journal|location=London|publisher=Printed for Ralph Griffiths; and sold by Thomas Becket, No. 82, Pall Mall|month=July|year=1783|volume=LXIX|issue=|page=61|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_ZdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA69|oclc=901376714|passage=Had it ''De le Maniere d'écrire l'Histoire'' (''Concerning the Manner of Writing History'', 1783) by (w) appeared ſooner, and been peruſed by with docility by ſome of our minor adventurers in this walk of literature, it might have had a good effect, by ſhewing them, that it is not ſo eaſy a matter as they think to write hiſtory, though the moſt middling genius may fling facts, dawb characters, and copy tales and truths promiſcuouſly.

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5. (quote-book)&93; is, plump, prosaic, the most middling of middling men, and so domestically fussy that even his gift of weeping hardly guarantees that he will be a major figure.

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8. In fairly good health.

9. (RQ:Lawrence Sons and Lovers)

10. Fairly, moderately, somewhat.

11. 1811, Engelbert Kempfer ''i.e.'', (w); Gaspar Scheuchzer|Johann Gaspar Scheuchzer, transl., “The Division and Sub-division of the Empire of Japan into Its Several Provinces; as also of Its Revenue and Government”, in ''The History of Japan''; republished in (w), editor, ''A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World; Many of which are Now First Translated into English. Digested on a New Plan'', volume VII, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Row|Paternoster-Row; and Cadell (publisher)|Cadell and Davies, in the London|Strand, (OCLC), page 665:

Iwami, otherwise Sekisju, is two days journey long, going from ſouth to north, a middling good country, producing plenty of cannib, and affording ſome ſalt.

12. Not too badly, with modest success.

13. Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.

14. (quote-book)|year=2014|page=21|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5fREBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-06352-2|isbn=978-3-319-06351-5|issn=2282-2577|passage=''Middlings'' are less likely to adopt worker commitment than are ''Leaders'', but the two groups are equally likely to adopt organisational responsibility. (..) ''Middlings'' have not been able to effectively implement innovative environmental programmes and proactive social programmes.

15. Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the class.