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midstream

noun

Etymology

From mid- + stream.

  1. derived from *srew-✻
  2. inherited from *srowmos✻
  3. inherited from *straumaz✻
  4. inherited from *straum✻
  5. inherited from strēam
  6. inherited from streem
  7. prefixed as midstream — “mid + stream”

Definitions

  1. The middle of a stream or river.

  2. in midstream

    • moored midstream
    • some of them got caught midstream by the tide

  3. in midstream, abruptly

    • the most difficult thing in a fast game of rugby is to change course midstream
    • But it was in the middle of this process that he had met Ms. Lukoji, and he opted not to change his application midstream to take his marriage into account.
    • Unlike film, theater and TV, the book world didn’t get interrupted midstream.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for midstream. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA