different between partial vs middle

English

Etymology

From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin parti?lis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p????l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p????l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??l
• Hyphenation: par?tial

Adjective

partial (comparative more partial, superlative most partial)

1. existing as a part or portion; incomplete

2. (computer science) describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates

3. biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute

   Antonym: impartial

   • 17th century, Alexander Pope, a letter

4. (followed by the preposition to) having a predilection for something

   Synonym: fond of

5. (mathematics) of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential
6. (botany) subordinate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

partial (plural partials)

1. (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
2. (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
3. (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
4. (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
5. (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
   • 2009, Antonio Cangiano, Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers (page 356)

     In fact, as seen in Chapters 5 and 6, the resulting document is usually the product of rendering a layout, which yields the rendering of the template at hand, which in turn can invoke the rendering of other templates and/or one or more partials.

Verb

partial (third-person singular simple present partials, present participle partialing or partialling, simple past and past participle partialed or partialled)

1. (statistics, transitive) To take the partial regression coefficient.

Further reading

• partial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• partial in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• partial at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• patrial

French

Etymology

From Middle French partial, borrowed from Late Latin parti?lis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”). Doublet of partiel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.sjal/

Adjective

partial (feminine singular partiale, masculine plural partiaux, feminine plural partiales)

1. partial, biased

Further reading

• “partial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• myddle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English middel, from Old English middel, middle (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midl?, *midil?, *medal? (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midj? (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with West Frisian middel, Dutch middel, German mittel (“middle”, adjective), German Mittel (“middle, means”, noun), Danish middel (“means, agent, medicine”). Related also to Swedish medel (“means, medium”), Icelandic meðal (“means, medicine”). See also mid.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/, [?m?.???]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/, [?m?.d??], [?m?.d?]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/, [?m??.d??], [?m??.d?], [?m??.?-]
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/, [?m?.d?(?)], [?m?.?-]
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Noun

middle (plural middles)

1. A centre, midpoint.

2. The part between the beginning and the end.

3. (cricket) The middle stump.
4. The central part of a human body; the waist.
   • Fasting In A Fast World

     If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.

5. (grammar) The middle voice.

Synonyms

• (centre): centre, center, midpoint; see also Thesaurus:midpoint
• (part between the beginning and the end): centre, center, midst

Translations

Adjective

middle (not comparable)

1. Located in the middle; in between.

   the middle point

   middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages

2. Central.
3. (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:intermediate

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• mid-
• middle- (in compounds; not a prefix)
• middling

Verb

middle (third-person singular simple present middles, present participle middling, simple past and past participle middled)

1. (obsolete) To take a middle view of. [17th–18th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 27:

     And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.

2. (obsolete, nautical, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle. [19th c.]

Middle English

Adjective

middle

1. inflection of middel:
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural