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Midterm

Definitions: Midterm

Midterm

Noun

1. The middle of the gestation period.

2. Middle of an academic term or a political term in office.

3. An examination administered in the middle of an academic term.

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


Synonyms: Midterm

Synonyms: midterm exam (n), midterm examination (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Midterm

English words defined with "midterm": midterm exam, midterm examination. (references)

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Modern Usage: Midterm

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido the killer pimp. (Risky Business; writing credit: Paul Brickman)

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

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Commercial Usage: Midterm

DomainTitle

Books

  • Federal Housing Policy at President Reagan's Midterm (Changing Domestic Priorities Series) (reference)

  • How to Be Totally Unhappy in a Peaceful World : Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Being Unhappy - A Complete Manuel with Rules, Exercises, a Midterm, and a Final Exam (reference)

  • Midterm Report (reference)

  • Midterm Report Class of '65: Chronicles of an American (reference)

  • Midterm Report the Class of '65: Chronicles of an American Generation (reference)

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Periodicals

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Midterm

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Philippines

Approximately 100 persons were killed in violence related to the midterm national elections in May, including two sitting congressmen and a candidate for provincial governor. (references)

Political Rights

Philippines

In May midterm elections were held for new senators, representatives, provincial governors, and local government officials. (references)

Nepal

Midterm elections may be called if the ruling party loses its majority, loses a vote of no confidence, or calls for elections. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Midterm

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Sharpton says that Bill Clinton failed to lead the Democratic Party during last month's midterm elections, and the former president is now compounding the party's poor showing by blaming others.

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

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Usage Frequency: Midterm

"Midterm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Midterm" is used about 3 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%3202,518

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

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Expressions: Midterm

Expressions using "midterm": midterm exam midterm examination. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "midterm": midterm-exam.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Midterm

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

midterm

5

2002 election midterm

3

federal midterm rate

3

c exam final language midterm

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Midterm

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

Chinese 

  

期中考. (various references)

   

German

  

schulhalbjahresmitte, prüfung zur schulhalbjahresmitte. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

中"試" (midterm examination). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちゅうか"しけ" (midterm examination). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idtermmay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sredina semestra, ispit koji se plaže sredinom semestra. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

examen de mitad del trimestre (midterm-exam). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

екзамени в середині семестру (midterm-exam). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

giữa năm học; giữa nhiệm kỳ, giữa năm học. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Midterm

Derivations

Words beginning with "midterm": midterms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Midterm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Medtner, midtour, minterm. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Midterm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: trimmed.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-m-r-t"

-1 letter: dimmer, mitred, rimmed.

-2 letters: demit, dimer, merit, mimed, mimer, mired, miter, mitre, remit, rimed, timed, timer, tired, tried.

-3 letters: derm, diet, dime, dire, dirt, dite, edit, emir, emit, idem, ired, item, mime, mire, mite, ride, rime, rite, term, tide, tied, tier, time, tire, trim.

-4 letters: die, dim, dit, ire, med, mem, met, mid, mim.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-m-r-t"
 

+1 letter: midterms.

 

+2 letters: dreamtime, midstream, mistermed, retrimmed, untrimmed.

 

+3 letters: dreamtimes, immigrated, immoderate, mastermind, midstreams, multiarmed, pretrimmed.

 

+4 letters: determinism, disarmament, dissymmetry, endometrium, masterminds, micromethod, overtrimmed, recommitted, symmetrized.

 

+5 letters: commiserated, determinisms, disarmaments, dissymmetric, dynamometric, immoderately, immoderation, immortalised, immortalized, mainstreamed, masterminded, melodramatic, micromethods, radiomimetic, semidiameter.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Midterm


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

4D 69 64 74 65 72 6D

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 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#100 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0064 0074 0065 0072 006D

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

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

47757086718479

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Spoken
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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