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midstream
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
midstream \midstream\ n. the middle of a stream; as, don't change horses in midstream.
Wikipedia
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Midstream is a magazine established by the Theodor Herzl Foundation , New York, described as an "intellectual Zionist journal". It is published since 1955, in English Started as a "Quarterly Jewish Review", it became a monthly in 1965. Midstream is an opinion ...
Wiktionary
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n. The middle of a stream or river
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Another group felt that it was inadvisable to change horses in midstream . ▪ From midstream he sent her a sweet, desperate smile. ▪ He took Deianira on his back and in midstream insulted her. ▪ The paper claimed that most businessmen ...
Usage examples of midstream.
Tibby felt the flow of blood change direction midstream and congeal in places it ought not to congeal.
In midstream Hadrios clung to Helane with one hand, used the other to flog a reluctant dromedary with a wand.
However, the barge crew remained unruffled during the wild ride, as they expertly plied their poles and steering oar to keep us in midstream and well away from the rock walls that could have ground us to splinters.
In this way both could drift on the midstream current without risk of fouling each other.
From midstream to the left bank extended a hopeless tangle of branches and trapped flotsam.
At the point equidistant between Bekla and Herl-Belishba, the River Zhairgen was a good hundred and fifty yards wide and all of twelve to fourteen feet deep, with a fairly strong midstream current even in summer.
The central current, checked by the islets filling about a third of the total breadth of the river, funnelled at the gaps in midstream, gushing through with the speed of a mill-race.
I can steer the boat ail right, and as long as we keep in midstream and nothing hits us, I reckon we ought to stay afloat.
They turned in midstream to find Coker cursing at them from the shore.
Mean Red decided, in midstream, to head back for the south shore, and he took half a hundred steers and young bulls with him.
The companions were in midstream now and the water rose only to their waists.
A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM 277 They were anchored in a muddy river with midstream islands.
On the morning of the fourth day they breasted a rise 408 Ken Follett and saw, in the valley below, a wide brown river with a series of midstream islands.
The dilapidated wagon had fallen to pieces in midstream, bits of wood and precious bundles of produce floating away as the master wallowed helplessly.
In midstream I will attack the two on the box, pulling him who is not driving into the water by his legs, and giving him the blade in the right shoulder above the lung.