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MIDWAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)
Domain region:
Midway Islands (an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base)
Holonyms ("Midway" is a part of...):
Second World War; World War 2; World War II (a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("midway" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Holonyms ("midway" is a part of...):
carnival; fair; funfair (a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Equally distant from the extremes
Synonyms:
center; halfway; middle; midway
Classified under:
Similar:
central (in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At half the distance; at the middle
Example:
he was halfway down the ladder when he fell
Synonyms:
halfway; midway
Classified under:
Context examples:
A country in the Pacific, comprised of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about midway between Peru and New Zealand, southeast of French Polynesia.
(Pitcairn, NCI Thesaurus)
The deep, one inch long portion of the parieto-occipital fissure, a groove, on the outer surface of the cerebral cortex midway between the occipital lobe and the fissure of Rolando.
(External Parieto-Occipital Fissure, NCI Thesaurus)
The great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles (the projection of the north and south pole onto the celestial sphere).
(Celestial equator, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
In the quiet air, there was a sound of distant singing—shepherd voices; but, as one bright evening cloud floated midway along the mountain's-side, I could almost have believed it came from there, and was not earthly music.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
ON this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warnings which tell us that it has outworn us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He uttered strange sounds, and seemed very much afraid of the darkness, into which he peered continually, clutching in his hand, which hung midway between knee and foot, a stick with a heavy stone made fast to the end.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Additionally, within the monument expansion area, there are shipwrecks and downed aircraft from the Battle of Midway in World War II, a battle that marked a major shift in the progress of the war in favor of the Allies.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
He swung the club smartly, stopping the rush midway and smashing White Fang down upon the ground.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He watched and waited, until he feigned a wild rush, which he stopped midway, for he had seen the glint of metal.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
