MIDWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Midway mean? 

• MIDWAY (noun)
  The noun MIDWAY has 2 senses:

1. the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located

2. 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

  Familiarity information: MIDWAY used as a noun is rare.

• MIDWAY (adjective)
  The adjective MIDWAY has 1 sense:

1. equally distant from the extremes

  Familiarity information: MIDWAY used as an adjective is very rare.

• MIDWAY (adverb)
  The adverb MIDWAY has 1 sense:

1. at half the distance; at the middle

  Familiarity information: MIDWAY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDWAY (noun)

Sense 1

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.)

Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Battle of Midway; Midway

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)

• MIDWAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Equally distant from the extremes

Synonyms:

center; halfway; middle; midway

Similar:

central (in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area)

• MIDWAY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At half the distance; at the middle

Synonyms:

halfway; midway

Context example:

he was halfway down the ladder when he fell

 Context examples 

We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses to talk it over.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was equally conceivable that he had shot her and then himself, or that she had been the criminal, for the revolver lay upon the floor midway between them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was nearly midway between the oak and the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Midway in the passage, the current picked up the cub and swept him downstream.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A unipolar electrocardiogram lead site; the electrode is placed on the anterior chest wall midway between leads V2 and V4.

(Lead Site V3, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a long climb, and they could not go fast; but very fast to Negore they seemed to approach the midway point where top was no less near than bottom.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As to the stone, it glanced off obliquely and fell midway between the vessels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An opening in the transversalis fascia midway between the anterior superior iliac spine and pubic tubercle through which the spermatic cord (males) or round ligament (females) pass.

(Internal Abdominal Ring, NCI Thesaurus)

He threw one arm down to protect the stomach, the other arm up to protect the head; but Wolf Larsen’s fist drove midway between, on the chest, with a crushing, resounding impact.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The white beach, the stars, and the lights of the sugar steamers would look great, he thought, and midway on the sand the dark group of figures that surrounded the fighters.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)