Mid-Atlantic

English Etymology From en mid- Atlantic. Proper noun mid-Atlantic The middle of the East Coast of the United States, typically consisting of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. en Derek Van Dam Northeast will be wet and chilly while Southern California should sizzle during holiday weekend w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/weather/mlk-holiday-weekend-weather-forecast 2021-01-16 This will feel like a dream compared to the chilly high temperatures forecast from the mid-Atlantic to New England, where you’ll be lucky to see the mercury in the thermometer climb out of the 40’s. https://web.archive.org/web/20250528233334/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/weather/mlk-holiday-weekend-weather-forecast 28 May 2025 The middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Used alone, with "the". en 1880 William B. Carpenter The Deep Sea and its Contents The Nineteenth Century 7 38 April http://books.google.com/books?id=a7DQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA609&dq=%22mid-Atlantic%22 609 All the best hydrographers, both of this country and of the United States, agree in the conclusion that the Florida Current dies out in the mid-Atlantic, losing all the attributes by which it had been previously distinguished— en 1919 Commander John H. Towers The Great Hop Everybody's Magazine Ridgeway Company XLI 5 November http://books.google.com/books?id=LrbmAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA11&dq=%22mid-Atlantic%22 11 They gave us a wonderful cheer, wished us good luck by wireless, then headed out for the mid-Atlantic to take up their posts. en 2005 Kendall F. Haven Wonders of the Sea Libraries Unlimited 978-1-59158-279-3 http://books.google.com/books?id=EcucbYDL0ucC&pg=PA78&dq=%22mid-Atlantic%22 78 New evidence hints at the possibility that a landmass might have existed in the mid-Atlantic as recently as 12,000 years ago and that Used alone, after a verb or preposition of location, without "the". 1875, Ralph Abercromby, letter to the editor, in Sir Norman Lockyer (editor), Nature, Volume 12, Number 311 (14 October 1875), Macmillan and Co., page 514: Cyclones coming from Labrador work round this hump to the S.E., and die out in mid-Atlantic. en 1906 Edwin Fowler At Bay The Metropolitan Magazine XXIII IV January http://books.google.com/books?id=2XnNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA440&dq=%22mid-Atlantic%22 440 I made my way up and found we were hurtling out toward mid-Atlantic. en 1957 Malcolm Francis Willoughby The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II http://books.google.com/books?id=T5A9LCujs08C&pg=PA128&dq=%22mid-Atlantic%22 128 Ayer Publishing 1980 9780405130816 Just before invasion of Normandy in June 1944, three additional stations, requested by the Army, were located far out in mid-Atlantic. en 2011 Andrew Wheen Dot-Dash to Dot.com: How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet Springer 978-1-4419-6759-6 http://books.google.com/books?id=B6shu_hAiGkC&pg=PA20&dq=%22mid-Atlantic%22 20 The plan was that the Niagara would lay its half of the cable first and the Agamemnon would then take over when they reached mid-Atlantic. Used as an attributive modifier in compounds such as "mid-Atlantic current" and "Mid-Atlantic Ridge": located in, or otherwise relating to, the mid-Atlantic. See: Mid Atlantic Ridge 1910, W. H. Holmes, “Some Problems of the American Race”, in American Anthropologist, Volume 12, Number 2 (April–June 1910), the American Anthropological Association, page 173: As they appear today these approaches are first, the north Atlantic chain of islands connecting northern Europe with Labrador; second, the mid-Atlantic currents setting steadily westward from the African coast to South America and the West Indies; third, en 1982 Roger Hékinian Petrology of the Ocean Floor Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company 978-0-444-41967-5 http://books.google.com/books?id=8qCQw-JQ75oC&pg=PA11&dq=%22Mid-Atlantic%22 11 The gabbros from both the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Mid-Indian Oceanic Ridge, showing a wide range in the FeO/MgO ratio (0.30–2.90), suggest a marked trend of fractionation (Fig. 1-3). en 2007 David Owen Anti-Submarine Warfare: An Illustrated History Naval Institute Press 978-1-59114-014-6 http://books.google.com/books?id=4az4yHa2hd4C&pg=PA103&dq=%22mid-Atlantic%22 103 Instead, British historian Dr Alfred Price has suggested that, had a smaller number of these bombers been available a year later, the results in the mid-Atlantic battle might have been very different. en figuratively Used as an attributive modifier in compounds such as "mid-Atlantic accent" and "mid-Atlantic English": half-American, half-European; combining American and European elements. en 1982 John Cornelius Liverpool 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=S6Eb7tn3U0EC&pg=PA29&dq=%22mid-Atlantic%22 29 Liverpool University Press 2001 978-0-85323-877-5 ‘That lecturer sure is a pain in the ass, man,’ said Keith, in a contrived, mid-Atlantic accent. en 2002 Marko Modiano Standardization processes and the mid-Atlantic English paradigm Andrew Robert Linn; Nicola McLelland Standardization: Studies from the Germanic Languages John Benjamins Publishing Company 978-90-272-4747-6 http://books.google.com/books?id=mmGKmKU1mU4C&pg=PA238&dq=%22Mid-Atlantic%22 237–238 With English, however, the notion that there is a given standard, be it BrE or AmE, is currently being undermined by the tendency of Europeans to mix features of AmE and BrE, which along with traces of a mother tongue accent and mother-toungue-based discourse strategies, now characterize the language behaviour of a growing number of foreign-language speakers of English living in mainland Europe. One way of describing this type of language behaviour is to use the designator Mid-Atlantic English (MAE) (see Modiano 1996a; 1996b; 1998; 1999a; 2002). en 2008 Susan Pitchford Identity Tourism: Imaging and Imagining the Nation Emerald Group Publishing 978-0-08-046618-7 http://books.google.com/books?id=K4rzzj2bDLAC&pg=PA7&dq=%22mid-Atlantic%22 7 Especially given the continued dominance of the developed North, there is some cause for concern that a creeping cultural homogenization will leave us with only a bland, mid-Atlantic culture where local identities once flourished. Adjective - mid-Atlantic Of or relating to this region. en hybridisms en Geographic and cultural areas of the United States