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midstream

midstream

3.8
While an action or task is happening and not finished
  • adverb
  • /ˈmɪdˌstrim/
: 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.