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midstream

midstream

3.8
While an action or task is happening and not finished
  • adverb
  • /ˈmɪdˌstrim/
translation icon : en medio del proceso
  • It's changing horses midstream and psychologically for your audience, it just doesn't work.

To my faculty colleagues, I know the prospect of changing course midstream is daunting.

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Examples

  • To my faculty colleagues, I know the prospect of changing course midstream is daunting.

  • Changing the plan midstream can confuse everyone involved in the project.

  • Yes, format switches midstream where I had the bottom, the last question.

  • I guess it make would make more sense if I didn't switch my notation in midstream A&B.

  • It's changing horses midstream and psychologically for your audience, it just doesn't work.

  • The team decided to change their strategy midstream to achieve better results.

  • We usually try to avoid making decisions midstream, as it can disrupt the workflow.

Synonyms

in midstream
vsmidstream
3 6.5

While something is still happening and not finished

is the same meaning but written as a single word rather than a phrase
midcourse
vsmidstream
6.0

Happening in the middle of a journey or project

is used more generally for actions or events not only journeys

Antonyms

end
1.0

The final part of something, like an event or story

1.0

Something that is at the first stage of a process

Idioms

3 6.5

While something is still happening and not finished

Switching leaders or plans during a project that is already happening when it is risky

How Complete

finished
2 1.0
ending
398 1.0
midstream
3.8
beginning
1.0
unstarted
1 4.3

Surface Forms

midstream positive

Morphology

midstream = mid + stream (semi-transparent) = mid + stream

The compound is structurally clear, but the adverbial sense 'in the middle of an ongoing event' is a metaphorical extension from the literal idea of being in the middle of a stream.

Etymology

Midstream used as an adverb comes from the same parts mid and stream, imagining events as a flow. So to act midstream is to act 'in the middle' of an action or process, before it is finished.