intermediate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/
ipa: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.diˌeɪt/
enpr: ĭn-tər-mē'dē-ət
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.ət/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.eɪt/
Forms: form: more intermediate
form: most intermediate
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, perfect passive participle of intermediō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from intermedius (“intermediate”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Then, being on his knees between my thighs, he drew up his ſhirt, and bared all his hairy thighs, and ſtiff ſtaring truncheon, red-topt, and rooted into a thicket of curls, which cover’d his belly to his navel, and gave it the air of a fleſh-bruſh: and ſoon I felt it joining cloſe to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both ſides.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages 165–166:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: Such was the station provided for the infrequent services of 1852, when suburban traffic was unheard of, and Hornsey, Colney Hatch & Southgate, Barnet, and Potters Bar were the only intermediate stations on the 17¾ miles between London and Hatfield.
ref: 1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 650-651:
text: The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:
text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
Synonyms: word: average
word: intermediate
word: middle
word: middling
word: mild
word: medium
word: moderate
Hyponyms: word: mediocre
Derived terms: dorsointermediate
higher intermediate fare
higher intermediate point
intermediacy
intermediate black hole
intermediate cuneiform bone
intermediate egret
intermediate filament
intermediate frequency
intermediate language
intermediately
intermediate mass black hole
intermediate nerve
intermediateness
intermediate phalange
intermediate phalanx
intermediate school
intermediate scrutiny
intermediate switch
intermediate time
intermediate value theorem
intermediate vector boson
logamediate
neurointermediate
nonintermediate
phosphointermediate
photointermediate
posterointermediate
reactive intermediate
unintermediate
ventrointermediate
Related terms: word: small
word: big