middling

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It's a lot more than a middling measure.

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Quick take

any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

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noun

any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

adjective

lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"

adverb

to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for middling.

noun

any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

adjective

adverb

to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"

Example sentences

It's a lot more than a middling measure.

Found a middling startup or two, and you're suddenly an expert.

I had spent my twenties partying and getting drunk, somehow managing to carve out a career as a middling journalist during the sober bits.

The amount is approximately that required for a middling "power center" shopping development.

It took me a while to slog through that whole long list of references at the end of the end of the article, but correlational study designs don't impress more by being numerous, especially when most of them are published in middling-to-lousy journals.

"forcing Google to remove it from their index is at best a middling measure "I think you underestimate the power of search engines - simply having Bing/Google remove a reference to something, will eliminate it from view for 99%+ of the population.

"Offered the choice between mastery of a five-foot shelf of analytical statistics books and middling ability at performing statistical Monte-Carlo simulations, we would surely choose to have the latter skill.

As languages go, C# may be the ultimate "middle ground" because it really excels and providing a middling implementation of [your-favorite-language-feature].That is, if you're a functional programming enthusiast, you can do a lot of functional programming in C#.