midstream
River's middle zone
Midstream is the middle of a stream or river, away from the banks: The boat stalled midstream.
Figuratively, it means in the middle of an ongoing process or activity: Don't change horses midstream, She switched careers midstream.
The warning against midstream changes reflects the risk of disrupting something already in progress.
Long-distance fluid transport tube
- refiningRemoving unwanted elements
- extractionAct of removing
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- sectorDistinct division of whole
transportation · distribution · processing · operations · assets · infrastructure · production · facilities
Directed flow of charge
- channelPassage for transmission
- bankPlace holding deposits
- rapidsTurbulent river section
- confluenceMeeting point of streams
tributary · streambed · watershed · crossing · ford · wading · rocks · boulders
Complete sudden stop
- pauseTemporary cessation of activity
- changeTo make different
- switchCircuit-breaking toggle device
- correctionFixing of mistakes
pivot · reversal · adjustment · abandonment · redirect · abort · shift · stoppage
pipeline
Long-distance fluid transport tube
- refiningRemoving unwanted elements
- extractionAct of removing
- drillingHole-making by rotation
sector · transportation · distribution · processing · operations · assets · infrastructure · production · facilities · acquisition
current
Directed flow of charge
confluence · tributary · streambed · watershed · crossing · ford · wading · rocks · boulders · swimming
halt
Complete sudden stop
correction · pivot · reversal · adjustment · abandonment · redirect · abort · shift · stoppage · modification
bladder
Organ holding urine
incontinence · flow · stop · kegel · pelvic · prostate · control · muscles · hesitancy · retention
- petroleumcrude oil, crude, petroleum, oil wells, oil fields
- middlecenter, central, halfway, median, midline
- oil industrypetroleum, oil fields, oil well, oil rig, oil production
- Oil Marketsoil prices, crude oil, petroleum, oil production, oil reserves
- riversMississippi, Amazon, river, rivers, Nile
- waterwaysriver, rivers, canal, canals, creek
midstreamat the end
In the final position
beginning · end · outset · start · conclusion
- change horses in midstreamAlter approach mid-effort
- changing horses in midstreamAltering strategy during action
- swap horses in midstreamReplace leadership during crisis
- changed horses in midstreamMade risky mid-effort substitution
- swapping horses in midstreamChanging approach during difficulty
stream, mid, middle, midway, midpoint, streams, mainstream, streamer, streaming