Amidships

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Midships \Mid"ships`\, adv. [For amidships.] (Naut.)
     In the middle of a ship; -- properly {amidships}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Amidships \A*mid"ships\, adv. (Naut.)
     In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and
     sometimes also her breadth. --Totten.
     [1913 Webster] Amidst

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  amidships
       adv : at or near or toward the center of a ship; "in the late 19th
             century, engines were placed in front, amidships, and
             at the rear" [syn: {amidship}, {midships}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "amidships":
     average, betwixt and between, central, core, equatorial,
     equidistant, half-and-half, halfway, in medias res, in the mean,
     in the middle, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial,
     medially, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mediumly,
     mesial, mezzo, mezzo-mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling,
     midland, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear