Medium
['miːdɪəm] or ['midɪəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication.
(noun.) a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information.
(noun.) (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.
(noun.) the surrounding environment; 'fish require an aqueous medium'.
(noun.) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; 'he consulted several mediums'.
(noun.) a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; 'a happy medium'.
(noun.) an intervening substance through which something is achieved; 'the dissolving medium is called a solvent'.
(noun.) (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed.
(noun.) a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter.
(adj.) (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside .
厄玛編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.
(n.) See Mean.
(n.) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
(n.) A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted.
(n.) An average.
(n.) A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper.
(n.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application.
(a.) Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.
手打:诺娜
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Intervening substance.[2]. Means, instrumentality.[3]. Mean average, mean proportion.[4]. (Painting.) Menstruum.[5]. (Logic.) Middle term.
整理:米切尔
同義詞及反義詞:
[See MEAN]
艾伯特整理
解釋/意思:
n. the middle: the middle place or degree: any intervening means instrument or agency: the substance in which bodies exist or through which they move: in spiritualism the person through whom spirits are said to make themselves seen or heard:—pl. Mē′diums or Mē′dia.—adjs. Mē′dium mediocre; Mediumis′tic of or pertaining to spiritualistic mediums.—Circulating medium money passing from hand to hand as coin bank-notes &c.
錄入:斯科特
娱乐性解釋/意思:
A party with one ear in the grave but both hands on your wallet. 'Hello, Central! Give me Heaven!'
佛瑞德整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I moved the table, like a Medium of the present day, by the vigor of my unseen hold upon it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I thought it best to hint, through the medium of a meditative look, that this might be occasioned by circumstances over which I had no control. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They appeared soon after the news of Lady Glyde's marriage had been made public in the newspapers, and had reached her through that medium. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- If it is equipped with a three-heat switch, it can be adjusted to 600 watts at full, 300 at medium and 150 at low, which means a great saving in current for most small cooking operations. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The ether must be distinguished from the air, for science means by it a medium which exists everywhere and is to be regarded as permeating all space and all matter. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The artist does that: he controls his medium so that we come most readily to the heart of his intention. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The medium of exchange upon Mars is not dissimilar from our own except that the coins are oval. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- He was of medium height, attractively built. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But there is evidently a medium, viz. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- And such media have no fixed saturation point where further absorption is impossible. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- We begin to learn precisely what was going on at the same time in Egypt and Spain and Media and India and China. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It affected the mixed people who had been placed in Samaria, the old capital of the kings of Israel when the ten tribes were deported to Media. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Such culture media are found in beef blood, gelatine, beef extracts, meat broth, milk, etc. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
校對:奥菲莉娅