Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Amidship

Definitions: Amidship

Amidship

Adjective

1. Located in the middle part of a ship or aircraft.

Adverb

1. 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".

2. At or near or toward the middle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "amidship" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)


Synonyms: Amidship

Synonyms: amidships (adv), midships (adv). (additional references)

Top     

Crosswords: Amidship

Specialty definitions using "amidship": Dead-flat. (references)

Top     

Modern Translations: Amidship

Language Translations for "amidship"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Indonesian

  

di tengah kapal. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amidshipay

   

Russian 

  

в середине корабля (amidships). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

geminin ortasındaki (amidships), geminin ortasında (amidships). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Derivations: Amidship

Derivations

Words beginning with "amidship": amidships. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Anagrams: Amidship

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-i-m-p-s"

-1 letter: dampish, maidish, midship, phasmid.

-2 letters: aphids, hispid, impish, mishap.

-3 letters: amids, aphid, aphis, apish, damps, dashi, imids, impis, maids, midis, padis, pimas, sapid, spahi.

-4 letters: aids, aims, amid, amis, amps, dahs, dais, damp, dams, daps, dash, dims, dips, dish, hams, haps, hasp, hips, imid, impi, imps, mads, maid, maps, mash, midi, mids, padi, pads.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-h-i-i-m-p-s"
 

+1 letter: amidships.

 

+2 letters: midshipman.

 

+3 letters: amphiploids.

 

+4 letters: diastrophism.

 

+5 letters: amphidiploids, amphiploidies, deemphasizing, diastrophisms, lymphadenitis, misemphasized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Amidship


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6D 69 64 73 68 69 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --    ..    -..    ...    ....    ..    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101101 01101001 01100100 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#105 &#100 &#115 &#104 &#105 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 0069 0064 0073 0068 0069 0070

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3579757085747582

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.