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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
middle distance
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Captain Samphan was walking fast across the road in the middle distance, ordering some of the troops into the paddy field.
▪ Clayt drew up his shoulders and stared into the middle distance, as though he were finished.
▪ Half the folks gazing placidly into the middle distance were too stoned to blink.
▪ His father pushed back his chair and stood and leaned back against the sink, looking into the middle distance.
▪ Like Querelle, men in tatty soiled uniforms are flexing their muscles, while others stare vacantly into the middle distance.
▪ Trees and grasses Coming to the middle distance, I now encounter trees.
▪ With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
middle distance

Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow, and cf. Secund.]

  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other.

    And he slept and dreamed the second time.
    --Gen. xli. 5.

  2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.

    May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation.
    --Landor.

  3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a prototype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.

    A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
    --Shak.

    Second Adventist. See Adventist.

    Second cousin, the child of a cousin.

    Second-cut file. See under File.

    Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also middle ground, or middle distance. [R.]

    Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers.

    Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table.

    Second intention. See under Intention.

    Second story, Second floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor.

    Second thought or Second thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration.

    On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him.
    --Dickens.

WordNet
middle distance

n. the part of a scene between the foreground and the background

Wikipedia
Middle distance

Middle distance may refer to:

  • Middle-distance running, the act of running over a distance of between 800 and 3000 metres
  • Middle-distance swimming, the act of swimming over a distance between 200 and 800 metres
  • Middle-distance triathlon, a triathlon longer than sprint, but shorter than ironman distances (e.g. Olympic triathlon distance)
  • Middle-distance horse racing, horse flat races over a distance between 9.5 and 12.99 furlongs (or 1900 to 2599 metres)
  • Middle-distance orienteering, orienteering races with finish times in the region of half an hour
  • Middle-distance iron, a golfing term for mid-range iron golf clubs
  • The area between the foreground and background in an image or landscape painting