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词汇 midair
释义 midair
noun[ U ]
US(UK usuallymid-air)us/ˌmɪdˈer/uk /ˌmɪdˈeər/
a point in the air, not on the ground:
She caught the ball in midair.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement through the air
airborne
buoyantly
buzz
flight
flighted
fly
glide
hang time
hover
levitate
lift
skim
smoothness
soar
soaring
stunt
swish
swishy
swoop
wheel
midair
adjective
US(UK usuallymid-air)us/ˌmɪdˈer/uk /ˌmɪdˈeər/
relating to a point in the air, not on the ground:
The call informed him that his son had been involved in a midair collision.
She urged residents and visitors who witnessed any part of the midair crash to contact authorities.
He helped solve the mystery of the midair explosion of an airliner in which 44 people died.
A group of drunken passengers started a midair brawl and forced the airliner to divert.
Midair refueling lets fighters patrol for long shifts instead of returning to base almost hourly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The Earth & outer space - general words
ablate
anti-gravity
atmosphere
atmospherically
auroral
geocentric
gravity
horizon
hydrosphere
infinite
ionospheric
lithosphere
lithospheric
macrocosm
mesosphere
mesospheric
the Big Bang
underground
weightlessness
zero gravity

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Movement through the air

midair | American Dictionary


midair
noun[ U ]
us/mɪdˈeər/
a point in the air, not on the ground:
She caught the ball in midair.

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Safety concerns about wiring systems in airplanes were brought to the forefront of public attention by a midair explosion in 1996 involving a 747 airplane.
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In effect, a balloon full of human-breathable air would sustain itself and extra weight (such as a colony) in midair.
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Investigators find a mysterious sphere suspended in midair above a crater at what they determine to be the center of the blast.
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He is able to perform complex midair maneuvers while he glides which would be impossible for ordinary humans.
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The camera rotates upwards to reveal another clown/officer pair in midair after falling from a balcony above.
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They float in midair and evolve into larger, more elaborate objects.
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They also allow him to control his descent if he transforms out of his jet form in midair.
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Once the word is formed, the balloon hovers in midair as the word flashes.
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A set of spiral stairs leads off to the right and breaks off in midair.
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The lack of approach ramps meant the bridge ended in midair, rendering it useless.
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The most alarming of these was the danger of a midair explosion due to overheating of the fuselage fuel tanks located between the engines.
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She can even hover in midair by releasing controlled bursts of kinetic energy beneath her.
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A third and less frequently used strategy is flycatching, in which the bird flies away from its shrub to grab prey in midair.
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The character walks off the edge of a cliff, remains suspended in midair, and doesn't fall until he looks down.
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Two gigantic bronze stallions, whose hooves meet midair, form an arch above the entryway to the city.
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