Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The middle of the sea; the open sea.

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Examples

  • According to former NRC Commissioner Victor Gilinsky in a May 13, 2004 letter to the New York Review of Books, a complicated clandestine scheme featuring multiple "front" organizations and a dramatic mid-sea transfer smuggled 200 tons of uranium ore into Israel in 1968, avoiding European Atomic Energy Commission controls.

    Renee Parsons: Looking at Israel's Nuclear History as US Sabers Rattle Renee Parsons 2012

  • According to former NRC Commissioner Victor Gilinsky in a May 13, 2004 letter to the New York Review of Books, a complicated clandestine scheme featuring multiple "front" organizations and a dramatic mid-sea transfer smuggled 200 tons of uranium ore into Israel in 1968, avoiding European Atomic Energy Commission controls.

    Renee Parsons: Looking at Israel's Nuclear History as US Sabers Rattle Renee Parsons 2012

  • According to former NRC Commissioner Victor Gilinsky in a May 13, 2004 letter to the New York Review of Books, a complicated clandestine scheme featuring multiple "front" organizations and a dramatic mid-sea transfer smuggled 200 tons of uranium ore into Israel in 1968, avoiding European Atomic Energy Commission controls.

    Renee Parsons: Looking at Israel's Nuclear History as US Sabers Rattle Renee Parsons 2012

  • According to former NRC Commissioner Victor Gilinsky in a May 13, 2004 letter to the New York Review of Books, a complicated clandestine scheme featuring multiple "front" organizations and a dramatic mid-sea transfer smuggled 200 tons of uranium ore into Israel in 1968, avoiding European Atomic Energy Commission controls.

    Renee Parsons: Looking at Israel's Nuclear History as US Sabers Rattle Renee Parsons 2012

  • You can insulate yourself mid-sea by singing a familiar tune; you can emblazon "tomorrow" on your forearm to steel yourself for the struggle; but you must obey just one instruction: follow the boat.

    In praise of ... swimming the Channel | Editorial 2011

  • So they drifted at the mercy of the waves, till the craft neared a rock in mid-sea which fell upon her336 and broke her up and all on board were drowned, save King Badr Basim who got astride one of the planks of the vessel, after having been nigh upon destruction.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So a weekend trip to a small island in Malaysia included among other things, a dog chase and a jump from one ferry to another in mid-sea.

    Blog Party - Mini Tortilla Quiches 2006

  • The open ocean widened upon either board, and the hills of the mainland began to go down on the horizon, before she came to her unhomely destination, and lay-to at last where the rock clapped its black head above the swell, with the tall iron barrack on its spider legs, and the truncated tower, and the cranes waving their arms, and the smoke of the engine-fire rising in the mid-sea.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • The following year, through complex covert operations involving European front companies and mid-sea transfers from one vessel to another, Israel managed to obtain two hundred tons of uranium ore that had been stockpiled in Antwerp.

    Israel's Bomb Gilinsky, Victor 2004

  • I forget where I am, and pose like a solitary beacon on a rock in mid-sea, whilst the tides rush and roar about it.

    Hunger 2003

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