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Midair

Definition: Midair

Midair

Noun

1. Some point in the air; above ground level; "the planes collided in midair".

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

Date "midair" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references)


Crosswords: Midair

English words defined with "midair": mobile. (references)
Specialty definitions using "midair": jack-knife, jack-knife dive. (references)

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Modern Usage: Midair

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Rescued in Midair (1906)

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

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Commercial Usage: Midair

DomainTitle

Books

  • Awakening in Midair (reference)

  • I Didn't Know That Some Plants Grow in Midair (I Didn't Know That) (reference)

  • Midair (Contemporary American Fiction) (reference)

  • Mystery in Midair (Mickey Mysteries, No 1) (reference)

  • Twa Flight 800: Explosion in Midair (American Disasters) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Midair

Illustrations:
Midair

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Usage Frequency: Midair

"Midair" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Midair" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Midair

Expressions using "midair": in midair midair collision. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Midair

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

midair

7

midair collision

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Midair

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

French

  

en plein ciel (in midair). (various references)

   

German

  

mitten in der Luft. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

levegőben történő (mid-air), levegőben levő (mid-air), levegőben (afloat, mid-air, on the fly), légi (aerial, aeronautic, aeronautical, air cover, aviation, mosaic assembly, overcast). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(air, space). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちゅう (air, annotation, before, comment, companion, explanatory note, explanatory notes, mediocre, medium, sake, same kind, similar kinds, space). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idairmay

   

Romanian

  

punct înalt în spaţiu. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

в воздухе (in the air). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aire (air, look, loose, manner, tune, wind). (various references)

   

Thai

  

กลางอากาศ. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

повітряний простір (air space). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Midair

Derivations

Words beginning with "midair": midairs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Midair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bisazir, Idhari, Imadi, madain, Madaki, Madar, madir, Maigari, Maithir, mecair, medar, Medard, Megaira, Menair, Metair, miai, Midha, Midhir, miraris, Mivaki, Modai, moidore, mubadir, Muldaur, Munawir, Mundhir, mydair, mydir, Naddair, Nibari, niduari. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Midair"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "midair" (pronounced mi"de"r)
3-d e" rdare.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Midair

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-m-r"

-1 letter: radii.

-2 letters: amid, amir, arid, dram, imid, irid, maid, mair, midi, miri, raid, rami.

-3 letters: aid, aim, air, ami, arm, dam, dim, mad, mar, mid, mir, rad, ram, ria, rid, rim.

-4 letters: ad, ai, am, ar, id, ma, mi.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-m-r"
 

+1 letter: midairs.

 

+2 letters: admiring, dioramic, impaired, meridian, midbrain, milliard, ramified, semiarid, triadism.

 

+3 letters: airmailed, bipyramid, dairymaid, diametric, disaffirm, disarming, matricide, mediatrix, meridians, midbrains, midrashic, midrashim, milliards, miracidia, misraised, mydriasis, mydriatic, primordia, triadisms, zamindari.

 

+4 letters: acidimeter, acidimetry, administer, admiration, admiringly, antidromic, auditorium, bipyramids, bridesmaid, coadmiring, criminated, dairymaids, dermatitis, diagraming, diathermic, dicoumarin, disaffirms, disclaimer, dissimilar, disulfiram, dominatrix, epicardium, fimbriated, germicidal, gramicidin, ideogramic, imbricated, immigrated, imparadise, maidenhair, mandarinic, marinading, matricidal, matricides, meridional, minaudiere, miracidial, miracidium, misandries, miscarried, misdrawing, misgrading, misreading, mistrained, mithridate, mydriatics, praesidium, primordial, prismatoid, prismoidal, pyramiding, quadrivium, radicalism, reimagined, solidarism, taxidermic, unimpaired, zamindaris.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Midair


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

4D 69 64 61 69 72

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

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

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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)

01001101 01101001 01100100 01100001 01101001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#100 &#97 &#105 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0064 0061 0069 0072

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

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

477570677584

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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乌克兰, for Ukranian;