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单词 midstream
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Definition of midstream in English:

midstream

noun mɪdˈstriːmˈmɪdˌstrim
mass noun
  • The middle of a stream or river.

    the ferry was moving out into midstream
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is particularly important when the wind is in your face and you want to hold the float on line either far bank or midstream.
    • It is a great sight, with ant-like streams pouring across long pontoons over the river's shallow sandy banks to innumerable craft moored midstream.
    • In fact, a good number of them collapsed midstream and went with the water.
    • In midstream however the croc suddenly dives leaving the frog struggling with the current.
adjective mɪdˈstriːmˈmɪdˌstrim
Medicine
  • (of urine) passed in the middle part of an act of urinating.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All the women who agreed to participate provided a midstream urine specimen that their general practitioner tested immediately with a standard urine dipstick and then sent for microbiological examination and culture.
    • Urine specimens generally are obtained by a midstream clean-catch technique, and one study showed that cleansing does not decrease contamination rates in adults.
    • A midstream clean-catch technique usually is adequate in men and women.
    • It's important to remember you should use midstream urine for the most accurate result.
    • Like the chemical analysis, the urine must be collected by the midstream or clean catch technique.

Phrases

  • in midstream

    • Part-way through the course of an activity, process, etc.

      our conversation was interrupted in midstream
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I am just alerting you so you are not cut off in midstream.
      • I like to keep changing in midstream, staying for a while under one banner then floating ahead towards another.
      • But our work has been noble and necessary, and we can't call a halt to it in midstream.
      • Set on an empty stage in front of a medium blue backdrop that in midstream turned blood red, the men were set free to relish their youth and power.
      • The Federal government ought not to have stopped the NALSAS Strategy in midstream.
      • Switching analogies in midstream, the herd bull elephant is being challenged by a relative newcomer, not without tusks, but still relatively wet behind its large, flapping ears.
      • Unless exceptional conditions dictate otherwise, give an employee enough time to finish an assignment without interruption and avoid switching him in midstream from one job to another.
      • We need to be flexible, fleet footed and be able to change course in midstream when positive opportunities present themselves.
      • We as spectators watch her fashion herself anew, see her change roles in midstream, as it were, effectively seeing her trope her self-as-wit into a self as self-spectating performance.
      • A second theory is that voters will decide not to switch horses in midstream and will surge towards the commander-in-chief.

Rhymes

abeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, deem, deme, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, meme, Nîmes, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, supreme, team, teem, theme, upstream
 
 

Definition of midstream in US English:

midstream

nounˈmidˌstrēmˈmɪdˌstrim
  • The middle of a stream or river.

    the ferry was moving out into midstream
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In midstream however the croc suddenly dives leaving the frog struggling with the current.
    • This is particularly important when the wind is in your face and you want to hold the float on line either far bank or midstream.
    • It is a great sight, with ant-like streams pouring across long pontoons over the river's shallow sandy banks to innumerable craft moored midstream.
    • In fact, a good number of them collapsed midstream and went with the water.
adjectiveˈmidˌstrēmˈmɪdˌstrim
Medicine
  • (of urine) passed in the middle part of an act of urinating.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Like the chemical analysis, the urine must be collected by the midstream or clean catch technique.
    • It's important to remember you should use midstream urine for the most accurate result.
    • A midstream clean-catch technique usually is adequate in men and women.
    • All the women who agreed to participate provided a midstream urine specimen that their general practitioner tested immediately with a standard urine dipstick and then sent for microbiological examination and culture.
    • Urine specimens generally are obtained by a midstream clean-catch technique, and one study showed that cleansing does not decrease contamination rates in adults.

Phrases

  • in midstream

    • (of an activity or process, especially one that is interrupted) partway through its course.

      our conversation was interrupted in midstream
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Set on an empty stage in front of a medium blue backdrop that in midstream turned blood red, the men were set free to relish their youth and power.
      • I like to keep changing in midstream, staying for a while under one banner then floating ahead towards another.
      • I am just alerting you so you are not cut off in midstream.
      • A second theory is that voters will decide not to switch horses in midstream and will surge towards the commander-in-chief.
      • Unless exceptional conditions dictate otherwise, give an employee enough time to finish an assignment without interruption and avoid switching him in midstream from one job to another.
      • We need to be flexible, fleet footed and be able to change course in midstream when positive opportunities present themselves.
      • But our work has been noble and necessary, and we can't call a halt to it in midstream.
      • The Federal government ought not to have stopped the NALSAS Strategy in midstream.
      • We as spectators watch her fashion herself anew, see her change roles in midstream, as it were, effectively seeing her trope her self-as-wit into a self as self-spectating performance.
      • Switching analogies in midstream, the herd bull elephant is being challenged by a relative newcomer, not without tusks, but still relatively wet behind its large, flapping ears.
 
 
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