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Medium

noun

(pl. L. media, E. mediums)

1.

A means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information.

2.

The surrounding environment.

3.

An intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication.

4.

(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms. Synonym: culture medium.

5.

A liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter.

6.

(biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed.

7.

An intervening substance through which something is achieved.

8.

A state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position.

9.

Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead. Synonyms: sensitive, spiritualist.

10.

(usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public. Synonym: mass medium.

11.

An occupation for which you are especially well suited. Synonym: metier.

adjective

1.

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation. Synonyms: average, intermediate. "Intermediate capacity" , "Medium bombers"

2.

(meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside.

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... end of the square, capacious scaffoldings had been erected to contain those who were privileged by rank, or those who were able to buy honors with the vulgar medium; while humbler preparations for the less fortunate completed the three sides of a space that was in the form of a parallelogram, and which was intended to receive the actors in the coming scene. The side next the water was unoccupied, though a forest ...

— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper

... must dream the statue prisoned in the marble, as the artist must dream the picture to come from the brilliant unmeaning of his palette, as the musician dreams a song, so he who writes must have a vision of his finished work before he touches, to begin it, a medium more elastic, more vivid, more powerful than any other—words—prismatic bits of humanity, old as the Pharaohs, new as the Arabs of the street, broken, sparkling, alive, from the age-long life of the race. Abraham Lincoln, with the clear thought in his ...

— The Perfect Tribute • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

... language has not been sufficiently shaped to that end. We all know this difficulty in the case of a picture, simple and strong as may be the impression that it has left with us; and it is only because language is the medium of romance that we are prevented from seeing that the two cases are the same. It is not that there is anything blurred or indefinite in the impression left with us, it is just because the impression is so very definite after its own kind, that we find ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... taste. It is a distinct breach of Chinese etiquette to wear spectacles while speaking to an equal. The Chinese invariably remove their glasses when conversing; for what reason I have never been able to discover. One thing is quite certain: they do not like being looked at through a medium of glass or crystal, and it costs the foreigner nothing to fall ...

— China and the Chinese • Herbert Allen Giles

... days he had often seen the narrow-shouldered man of barely medium height who, to secure his own safety, had had two brothers killed and sent another into exile, but now ruled Egypt shrewdly and prudently, and developed the prosperity of Alexandria with equal ...

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