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middle distance

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middle distance
n.
1. The area between the foreground and background in a painting, drawing, or photograph. Also called middle ground.
2. Sports A division of competition in racing with events usually ranging from 400 meters to 1,500 meters or from 440 yards to 1 mile.
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Noun1.middle distance - the part of a scene between the foreground and the background
panorama, vista, view, aspect, scene, prospect - the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views"


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As he stood there, gazing into the middle distance, an individual of dishevelled aspect sidled up, a vagrant of almost the maximum seediness, from whose midriff there protruded a trayful of a strange welter of collar-studs, shoe-laces, rubber rings, buttonhooks, and dying roosters.
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
In the middle distance symmetrical mounds of woolly green moss bounded by croquet hoops formed the base of shrubs shaped like orange-trees but studded with large pink and red roses.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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