Midway
['mɪdweɪ;mɪd'weɪ] or ['mɪd'we]
Definition
(noun.) naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands.
(noun.) the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located.
Edited by Erna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course.
(a.) Being in the middle of the way or distance; as, the midway air.
(adv.) In the middle of the way or distance; half way.
Edited by Enrico
Examples
- I work about midway between the two places. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Various reasons conspired to cause the departure from Menlo Park midway in the eighties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their noses were but longitudinal slits in the center of their faces, midway between their mouths and ears. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Now divide the string into two equal parts by inserting the bridge midway between the two ends; and pluck either half as before. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Or, that if from a high tower two stones, one twice the weight of the other, should be pushed out at th e same moment, the larger would strike the ground while the smaller was still midway? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was nearly midway between the oak and the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Midway between the ends of the building a cross wall should be built, and on this a sill should be laid upon which to erect the partition which divides the silo into two compartments. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They were on the brink of the Lock, about midway between the two sets of gates. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was sent to Mechanicsburg, some miles north-east of Haines' Bluff and about midway between the Big Black and the Yazoo. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Like the green Martians, they have an intermediary set of arms midway between their upper and lower limbs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- That the wild outbursts of insurrection midway in the fifth decade failed and died away was not surprising, for the superincumbent deposits of tradition and convention were thick. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses to talk it over. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In constructing the Britannia Bridge, Mr. Stephenson took advantage of a rock midway from shore to shore, whereon to erect the central pier. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Almost midway between the hopper and the bin is placed an electromagnet whose polar extension is so arranged as to be a little to one side of a stream of material falling from the hopper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There came, when they were about midway on their journey, a heavy rush of hail, which in a few minutes pelted the streets clear, and whitened them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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