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midships
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial midships has 1 sense
- midships(r = adv.all) amidship, amidships - 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
midships, adv. [For amidships.].
In the middle of a ship; -- properly amidships . [1913 Webster]
midships, n. pl.
The timbers at the broadest part of the vessel. R. H. Dana, Jr. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
midships
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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