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MEDIUM
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Irregular inflected form: media
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An occupation for which you are especially well suited
Example:
in law he found his true metier
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
communicating; communication (the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information)
Domain member category:
ban; censor (forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medium"):
aether; ether (a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves)
air; airwave (medium for radio and television broadcasting)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
instrumentality; instrumentation (an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medium"):
cold medium; cool medium (a medium that usually, but not always, provides little involvement together with substantial stimulus; includes speech, television, cartoons)
hot medium (a medium that usually, but not always, provides complete involvement together without considerable stimulus; includes radio, film, photography)
vehicle (a medium for the expression or achievement of something)
paper (a medium for written communication)
celluloid; cinema; film (a medium that disseminates moving pictures)
print media (a medium that disseminates printed matter)
data-storage medium; storage medium (a medium for storing information)
telecom; telecommunication ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically)
album; record album (one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
Synonyms:
mass medium; medium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medium"):
broadcast medium; broadcasting (a medium that disseminates via telecommunications)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The surrounding environment
Example:
fish require an aqueous medium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
environment; environs; surround; surroundings (the area in which something exists or lives)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
Example:
he consulted several mediums
Synonyms:
medium; sensitive; spiritualist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
psychic (a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position
Example:
a happy medium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Derivation:
medial (relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle)
Sense 8
Meaning:
An intervening substance through which something is achieved
Example:
the dissolving medium is called a solvent
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
substance (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medium"):
dissolvent; dissolver; dissolving agent; resolvent; solvent (a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances)
Sense 9
Meaning:
(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
Synonyms:
culture medium; medium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)
Domain category:
bacteriology (the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medium"):
agar; nutrient agar (any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent)
Sense 10
Meaning:
(biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
substance (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medium"):
contrast material; contrast medium (a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills)
Sense 11
Meaning:
A liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("medium" is a kind of...):
liquid (a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medium"):
magilp; megilp (a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside
Classified under:
Similar:
cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Around the middle of a scale of evaluation
Example:
medium bombers
Synonyms:
average; intermediate; medium
Classified under:
Similar:
moderate (being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme)
Context examples:
According to state media, Xinhua, it costs $102 million to build a kilometer of subway and only $2 million for the ART.
(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)
The dipropionate salt form of alclometasone, a synthetic corticosteroid with low to medium potency.
(Alclometasone Dipropionate, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of small to medium sized T lymphocytes that are cytotoxic and express CD56.
(Monomorphic CD56+ Intestinal T-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The smooth muscle tissue present in the tunica media which is the middle layer of the wall of an arteriole.
(Arteriole Smooth Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)
This species is acid fast, grows rapidly on egg medium, is urease, arylsulfatase and nitrate reductase positive, benzamidase and isonicotinamidase negative, and has a relatively low tolerance to cefmetazole and cefoxitin.
(Mycobacterium peregrinum, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes neurofilament medium polypeptide protein, plays a role in the regulation of neuronal process shape.
(NEFM wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This species is oxidase positive, negative for urease, phenylalanine deaminase and tryptophan deaminase, is unable to grow on solid medium at 4 to 10 degrees C, and is relatively halointolerant.
(Moraxella atlantae, NCI Thesaurus)
Neurofilament medium polypeptide (916 aa, ~102 kDa) is encoded by the human NEFM gene.
(Neurofilament Medium Polypeptide, NCI Thesaurus)
Mr. Knightley 'no;' and Miss Bates and I that he is just the happy medium.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The radiographic examination of the spinal cord and nerve roots following the injection of a contrast medium into the spinal subarachnoid space.
(Myelography, NCI Thesaurus)
