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mid-atlantic

mid-At·lan·tic
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [mid at-lan-tik]
    • /mɪd ætˈlæn tɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [mid at-lan-tik]
    • /mɪd ætˈlæn tɪk/

Definitions of mid-atlantic word

  • adjective mid-atlantic using, manifesting, or characterized by a mixture of American and British behavior or speech. 1
  • adjective mid-atlantic If you describe someone's accent as mid-Atlantic, you mean that it is a mixture of British and American accents. 0
  • adjective mid-atlantic characterized by a blend of British and American styles, elements, etc 0
  • adjective mid-atlantic characterized by a combination of both British and American elements, influences, etc. 0
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Parts of speech for Mid-atlantic

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mid-atlantic popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 34% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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  • mid-atlantic ridge

    a north-south suboceanic ridge in the Atlantic Ocean from Iceland to Antarctica on whose crest are several groups of islands; shown by plate tectonics to be the axis along which North America has split away from Eurasia, and along which South America has split away from Africa.

  • north american plate

    a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising Greenland and the continent of North America and the suboceanic Labrador and North American Basins, and bounded on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the south by the Caribbean and South American Plates, and on the west by the San Andreas fault and Aleutian Trench.

  • south american plate

    a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the continent of South America and several ocean basins and bounded on the north by the Caribbean Plate, on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the west by a submarine trench that borders the western coast of the continent, and on the south by the Antarctic Plate.

  • white-fringed beetle

    any of several weevils of the genus Graphognathus, native to South America and now of southeastern and mid-Atlantic U.S., whose larvae feed on roots and cause serious damage to a wide variety of plants.
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