Amidships

Definition: Amidships

Amidships

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".

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

Domain	Definitions
Economics	The area of a vessel midway between the front (the bow) and the rear (the stern). When the term applies to an airplane, it is midway between the nose and the tail. (references)
Food & Agriculture	In the middle portion of a vessel. The point of intersection of two lines, one drawn from stem to stern, the other across the beam(or widest part)is the actual midships. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Amidships

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

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Middle	Adverb: in the middle; midway, halfway; midships, amidships, in medias res.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Amidships

English words defined with "amidships": amidship ♦ beam ♦ Gallows bitts ♦ Helm amidships ♦ midships ♦ No-man's land ♦ Shallow-waisted, Ship pendulum ♦ Trow. (references)

Specialty definitions using "amidships": molded depth, moulded depth. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Bows Amidships (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Halibut schooner under jib, foresail, and double-reefed mainsail Nest of dories on deck and amidships Rigged for fall and winter fishing Drawing by Capt. J.W. Collins.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.		In dry dock at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, while being converted for naval service, 17 May 1898. Note light armor plate being installed on her hull amidships to protect her boilers.Credit: NAVY.
	At anchor with a steam launch alongside, circa the 1880s. Note the sheet anchor amidships, just below the forward funnel, and this ship's distinctive 15-foot figurehead.Credit: NAVY.		Smoke rises soon after an explosion amidships on USS Lexington (CV-2), 8 May 1942. This is probably the explosion at 1727 hrs that took place as the carrier's abandonment was nearing its end. Ships standing by include the cruiser Minneapolis (CA-36) and destroyers Morris (DD-417), Anderson (DD-411) and Hammann (DD-412).Credit: NAVY.
	Is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during the Guadalcanal Campaign, 15 September 1942. USS Wasp (CV-7), torpedoed a few minutes earlier, is burning in the left distance. O'Brien was hit in the extreme bow, but "whipping" from the torpedo explosion caused serious damage to her hull amidships, leading to her loss on 19 October 1942, while she was en route back to the United States for repairs.Credit: NAVY.		In port, circa early 1942. Note her pattern camouflage, depth charge racks on her stern and gravity davits amidships.Credit: NAVY.
	After target practice before King Edward VII, July-August 1907. The ship is flying what appear to be Royal Standards at her foremast, and is displaying targets amidships.Credit: NAVY.		With her rails manned, probably during the naval review off Yokohama on 25 August 1933. Three white bands on her after smokestack signify that she is the third ship of the 6th Sentai (squadron). Note the aircraft catapult amidships, installed in 1932-33.Credit: NAVY.
	Aerial view of the ship's starboard midships area, taken by a plane from Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor, while Hood was off Honolulu, Hawaii, on 12 June 1924. Note rangefinders atop the conning tower and foremast top; 15-inch twin gun turrets, with a partially disassembled air craft platform atop "B" turret; and boats stowed amidships.Credit: NAVY.		Photograph taken on board by Matthew Brady, soon after she was captured on the James River, Virginia, on 4 July 1862. This view shows damage amidships from the boiler explosion that led to her capture. It probably looks aft on the port side, with the muzzle and carriage of her 32-pounder gun in the distance.Credit: NAVY.
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"Amidships" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amidships" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	20	78,262

Expression using "amidships": Helm amidships. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "amidships"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		në mes të anijes. (various references)

Bulgarian		в средата на кораба. (various references)

Danish		midtskibs (midships). (various references)

Dutch		midscheeps (midships). (various references)

Finnish		keskilaivassa. (various references)

French		au milieu du navire. (various references)

German		mittschiffs (midships). (various references)

Greek		στο μέσο του πλοίου, μέσω του πλοίου. (various references)

Hungarian		hajó közepén (midships). (various references)

Italian		a mezza nave, a centro nave (midships), parte centrale della nave. (various references)

Manx		ayns mean ny lhong. (various references)

Pig Latin		amidshipsay

Portuguese		meio-navio, de través (abeam, abreast, aslant, athwart, athwartships, bias, criss cross, crosswise, slantwise), � meia-nau (midst). (various references)

Romanian		la mijlocul vasului. (various references)

Russian		у миделя. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		u sredini broda. (various references)

Spanish		en medio del barco, centro del buque. (various references)

Swedish		midskepps. (various references)

Turkish		geminin ortasındaki (amidship), geminin ortasında (amidship). (various references)

Ukranian		посередині судна. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "amidships" (pronounced umi"dshups)
4	-sh u p s	bishops, worships.
3	-u p s	breakups, develops, envelops, gossips, hiccups, juleps, matchups, polyps, scallops, stirrups, syrups, tulips, turnips, wallops.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-i-m-p-s-s"
	-1 letter: amidship, midships, phasmids.
	-2 letters: dampish, maidish, midship, mishaps, missaid, phasmid, sashimi.
	-3 letters: aphids, aspish, dashis, dipsas, hispid, impish, mishap, passim, phasis, sadism, spahis.
	-4 letters: amids, amiss, aphid, aphis, apish, apsis, aspis, damps, dashi, hasps, imids, impis, maids, midis, padis, pimas, sadis, saids, samps, sapid, shads, shams, shims, ships, simas, simps, smash, spahi, spams, spasm.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-h-i-i-m-p-s-s"
	+3 letters: diastrophism.
	+4 letters: diastrophisms, misemphasized.
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