Medium
['miːdɪəm] or ['midɪəm]
Definition
(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 .
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Intervening substance.[2]. Means, instrumentality.[3]. Mean average, mean proportion.[4]. (Painting.) Menstruum.[5]. (Logic.) Middle term.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MEAN]
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Definition
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.
Checker: Scott
Unserious Contents or Definition
A party with one ear in the grave but both hands on your wallet. 'Hello, Central! Give me Heaven!'
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Examples
- I moved the table, like a Medium of the present day, by the vigor of my unseen hold upon it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The artist does that: he controls his medium so that we come most readily to the heart of his intention. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The medium of exchange upon Mars is not dissimilar from our own except that the coins are oval. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He was of medium height, attractively built. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But there is evidently a medium, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And such media have no fixed saturation point where further absorption is impossible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We begin to learn precisely what was going on at the same time in Egypt and Spain and Media and India and China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such culture media are found in beef blood, gelatine, beef extracts, meat broth, milk, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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