medium
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.
Inflected forms:
form: media
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mediums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
pos: noun
gloss: The materials or empty space through which signals, waves, or forces pass.
pos: noun
examples: VVhether any other Liquours, being made Mediums, cauſe a Diuerſity of Sound from Water, it may bee tried: […]
He’s old and jealous, apt for ſuſpitions, ’gainſt which Tyrants ears
Are never clos’d. The Prince is young,
Fierce, and ambitious, I muſt bring together
All theſe extreams, and then remove all Mediums,
That each may be the others object.
gloss: A format for communicating or presenting information.
pos: noun
examples: [A]t all events, she drank in with eager ear, and admiring mind, anecdote and history of all those excellent traits of disposition, and nobleness of conduct, which made him the idol of his describer, and gave her a knowledge of his temper and character, and the manner in which his boyhood and youth had passed, which she could never have gained by any other medium, and which it was unquestionably right she should know.
Too often writing—in the broadest sense—is treated as a communicational medium where the subjects of that communication are constituted prior to the writing, where the objects of that communication are also constituted prior to that writing, and where the task of writing is seen as transparently mediating between already pregiven subjects, pregiven objects, and a preconstituted mise en scène.
gloss: A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro.
pos: noun
examples: In some instances one can take advantage of differential carbohydrate fermentation capabilities of microorganisms by incorporating one or more carbohydrates in the medium along with a suitable pH indicator. Such media are called differential media (e.g., eosin methylene blue or MacConkey agar) and are commonly used to isolate enteric bacilli.
gloss: A substance, structure, or environment in which living organisms subsist, grow or are cultured.
pos: noun
tags: usually
examples: The density of the living medium of fishes exerts upon them a mechanical influence; they are, so to say, balanced in water, free to proceed in all planes of direction...
gloss: A means, channel, agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieved.
pos: noun
examples: Cable TV is an inexpensive advertising medium.
His loyalty to the English was doubtful and wavering, and his opposition to Post's journey was probably due to fears that his own importance as a medium between the Ohio Indians and the English would be diminished by the former's success.
gloss: The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
pos: noun
gloss: A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A means of expression, in the arts, such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc).
pos: noun
examples: Acrylics, oils, charcoal, and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.
Heretofore in following the course, the student has been confined to black and white in the medium of charcoal, pen and ink or pencil. The first introduction to color is by means of the Still Life painting class.
It was the woodcut, however, that emerged as the favorite graphic medium of Expressionism. Rejecting the almost limitless pictorial possibilities of lithography, which had dominated printmaking during the nineteenth century, […]
So we get a people in rebellion against a dominant majority, but forced to rebel secretly, to sublimate, as the psychologist would put it — to express themselves culturally through the medium of jaz , and linguistically through a code, a jargon ...
Prose is not the preferred medium of expressionism, yet some outstanding individual examples come to mind, for example: Robert Walser's (1876–1956) surrealistic miniatures and novels of a dreamlike structure reminiscent of Kafka […]
The Pulitzer board said the award was given “in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.”
gloss: The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Someone who conveys information from the spirit world.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The hall was not too well lit and dark shadows lurked in the corners. The medium still bent her head as if her ears were straining.
gloss: A middle place or degree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a happy medium
[T]he Just Medium of This Case lies betwixt the Pride, and the Abjection of the Two Extreams.
Her height was pretty, […] her figure particularly graceful; her size a most becoming medium, between fat and thin, […]
In search of the principle on which joints ought to be roasted, to be roasted enough, and not too much, I myself referred to the Cookery Book,[…]. But the principle always failed us by some curious fatality, and we never could hit any medium between redness and cinders.
gloss: An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
examples: The number of Britiſh ſhips annually arriving in our ports vvas reduced to 1756 ſail, containing 92.559 tons, on a medium of the ſix years vvar, compared vvith the ſix years of peace preceding it.
gloss: Anything of a middle rank or position.
pos: noun
examples: Cavalry […] is divided into mediums, heavies, and light cavalry.
gloss: Arithmetically average.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
noun-from-verb
obsolete
gloss: Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
noun-from-verb
gloss: Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
noun-from-verb
gloss: That is medium (the manufactured size).
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
noun-from-verb
gloss: To a medium extent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
noun-from-verb
Related words: mean
median
mediate
mediation
mediator
mediocre
mediocrity
Derived words: circumgalactic medium
contrast medium
intergalactic medium
interplanetary medium
interstellar medium
warm-hot intergalactic medium
warm ionized medium
basal medium
culture medium
Czapek-Dox medium
Czapek medium
differential medium
growth medium
LJ medium
Löwenstein-Jensen medium
minimal medium
biomedium
cryomedium
geomedium
hypermedium
intermedium
mediumic
mediumist
mediumize
mediumweight
multimedial
multimedium
plurimedial
polymedial
postmedium
transmedium
lower-medium
medium-brow
medium-chain
medium dead
medium drink
medium dry
medium Earth orbit
medium format
medium icebreaker
medium long shot
medium machine gun
medium pace
medium pacer
medium-quality
medium scale integration
medium shot
medium spiny neuron
medium term
medium wave
mediumwave
medium well
military medium
over medium
small and medium-sized enterprise
upper-medium
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