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INTERMEDIATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("intermediate" is a kind of...):
chemical; chemical substance (material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lying between two extremes in time or space or state
Example:
an intermediate range plane
Classified under:
Similar:
gray; grey (intermediate in character or position)
halfway (at a point midway between two extremes)
in-between; mediate; middle (being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series)
junior; next-to-last; third-year (used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college)
next-to-last; penultimate (second last)
second-year; sophomore (used of the second year in United States high school or college)
subterminal (near but not precisely at an end)
antepenultimate (third from last)
Antonym:
terminal (being or situated at an end)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Around the middle of a scale of evaluation
Example:
medium bombers
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
moderate (being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they intermediate ... he / she / it intermediates
Past simple: intermediated
Past participle: intermediated
-ing form: intermediating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
Example:
He mediated a settlement
Synonyms:
arbitrate; intercede; intermediate; liaise; mediate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "intermediate" is one way to...):
negociate; negotiate; talk terms (discuss the terms of an arrangement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
intermediation (the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement)
intermediator (a negotiator who acts as a link between parties)
Context examples:
An intermediate filament located in the nucleus of a cell, which plays a role in the maintenance of nuclear structure.
(Nuclear Lamin, NCI Thesaurus)
Lamins are highly conserved in evolution and members of the intermediate filament protein family.
(Nuclear Lamina, NCI Thesaurus)
The hydrochloride is a synthetic, light sensitive, white crystalline powder that is soluble in dimethylsulfoxide and ethanol. o-Toluidine and o-toluidine hydrochloride are used primarily as intermediates in the manufacture of dyes and pigments.
(o-Toluidine, NCI Thesaurus)
An intermediate filament that is found in the axons of neurons.
(Neurofilament, NCI Thesaurus)
N-Nitrosodi-n-butylamine is primarily used in laboratory research to induce tumors in experimental animals, but is also used as an intermediate in the synthesis of di-n-butylhydrazine.
(N-Nitrosodiethanolamine, NCI Thesaurus)
They are color coded to distinguish between regions with high, intermediate, and low rates of cancer mortality.
(Mortality Map, NCI Thesaurus)
An intermediate grade neoplasm arising from mesothelial cells.
(Multicystic Mesothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)
Low and intermediate antibody responses to 1 and 10 g BSA, respectively.
(A28807, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
The part of a desmosome that is on the cytoplasmic side of this junction, consisting of desmoplakin, plakoglobins and plakophilins, which links the cytoplasmic intermediate filaments to the transmembrane cadherin receptor proteins.
(Attachment Plaque, NCI Thesaurus)
Models of forest age in 2008 show that 17 percent of the forest area in lowland Latin America consists of young second-growth forest (1-20 years) and 11 percent consists of intermediate age forest (20-60 years).
(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)
