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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial amidships has 1 sense
- amidships(r = adv.all) amidship, midships - at or near or toward the center of a ship; "in the late 19th century, engines were placed in front, amidships, and at the rear"
CIDE DICTIONARY
amidships, adv.
In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth. Totten. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
amidships, adv. (US amidship) in or into the middle of a ship.
Etymology
MIDSHIP after AMID
THESAURUS
amidships
average, betwixt and between, central, core, equatorial, equidistant, half-and-half, halfway, in medias res, in the mean, in the middle, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, medially, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mediumly, mesial, mezzo, mezzo-mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, nuclearROGET THESAURUS
amidships
Middle
N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.
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