From en.wiktionary.org:
[Medium]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en], neuter of [la], from [en], from [en]. Compare [en]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [mē'diəm] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[media]
1. The material of the surrounding environment , e.g. solid , liquid , gas , vacuum , or a specific substance such as a solvent .
2. [en] The material s or empty space through which signal s, wave s [,] or force s pass.
3. * [edition=3rd]
4. * [page=18]
5. [en] A format for communicating or presenting information.
6. * [page=272]
7. * [en]
8. [en] A nutrient substance , commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells _in vitro_ .
9. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1996 | editor=Samuel Baron | title=Medical Microbiology
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] A substance, structure, or environment in which living organism s subsist , grow or are culture d.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1895 | author=Bashford Dean. | title=Fishes, Living and Fossil
|passage=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...}}
1. A means , channel , agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieve d.
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=2007 |author=Reuben Gold Thwaites |title=Early Western Travels,
1748-1846 |publisher=Reprint Services Corporation |isbn=9780781264341
|page=186 |passage=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.}}
1. [en] The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
2. [en] A liquid base which carries pigment in paint .
3. [en] A means of expression, in the arts , such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc).
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1898 | location=Missouri | publisher=Department of Education | title=Report of the Public Schools of the State of Missouri | page=98
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1966 | author=John P. Sedgwick | title=Discovering Modern Art: The Intelligent Layman's Guide to Painting from Impressionism to Pop
|passage=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, [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1967 | author=Barnet Kottler; Martin Light | title=The World of Words: A Language Reader
|passage=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 ...}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1974 | author=Karl Siegfried Weimar | title=German Language and Literature: Seven Essays | publisher=Prentice Hall
|passage=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 [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1999 | title=Jet | page=29
|passage=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.”}}
1. [en] The mean or middle term of a syllogism , that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
2. [en] Someone who supposedly convey s information from the spirit world.
3. * [chapter=Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company]
4. [en] A middle place or degree.
5. * [215]
6. * [volume=II]
7. * [page=453]
8. [en] An average ; sometimes the mathematical mean .
9. * [page=5]
10. Anything of a middle rank or position.
11. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1891 | author=Ebenezer Cobham Brewer | title=The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles | page=153
|passage=Cavalry [...] is divided into MEDIUMS, heavies, and light cavalry.}}
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=material or substance |circumgalactic medium |interplanetary
medium |interstellar medium |intergalactic medium |warm-hot intergalactic
medium |warm ionized medium |contrast medium }} {{col|en|title=format for
communicating or presenting information |mass medium |storage medium
|transmission medium |cool medium |hot medium |English-medium |social medium
}} {{col|en|title=microbology |culture medium |growth medium
|Löwenstein-Jensen medium |LJ medium |differential medium |minimal medium
|basal medium |Czapek medium |Czapek-Dox medium }} {{col|en|title=means,
channel or agency by which an aim is achieved |medium of exchange |medium of
instruction |circulating medium }} {{col|en|title=person claiming to convey
information from the spirit world |mediumistic |mediumism |mediumship }}
{{col|en|title=middle place or degree |happy medium |strike a medium }}
[en]
**** Translations
[nature of the surrounding environment]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[format for communicating or presenting information]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[nutrient solution for the growth of cells _in vitro_]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[engineering: materials used to finish a workpiece] [trans-bottom]
[liquid base which carries pigment in paint]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[painting: tool or materials used for painting or drawing]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[logic: middle term of a syllogism]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
[trans-bottom]
[middle place or degree]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Irish: [ga]
[trans-bottom]
[average; sometimes the mathematical mean]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[~] [en]
1. [en] [One of several common size s to which an item may be manufactured.]
2. [en] An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
3. [en] One who fits an item of that size.
4. [en] A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
**** Translations
[the size medium]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[item of the size medium]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[person who fits medium items]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hebrew: [he]
[trans-bottom]
[half-pint serving]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] Arithmetically average .
2. Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
3. Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done ; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
4. [en] That is medium [the manufactured size] .
**** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:intermediate
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
{{col|en |mean |mediate |mediation |mediator |median |mediocre |mediocrity }}
**** Translations
[of intermediate size]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom] [cooked lightly]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adverb
[-]
1. To a medium extent.
**** Synonyms
- [en]
*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en] [en]
** Danish
*** Etymology
From [da].
*** Pronunciation
- [da]
*** Noun
[da]
1. [en]
**** Inflection
[stem=medie]
*** Adjective
[medium]
1. [en]
*** Further reading
- [lang=da]
** Dutch
*** Etymology 1
Borrowed from [nl].
**** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Noun
[n]
1. means , system or instrument for fulfilling an end
2. * {{ quote-text | nl | year=1967 | author=Evert Willem Barth | title=Moderne logica | publisher=Van Gorcum | section=138-139
|passage=Het is zeer aannemelijk dat sommige talen zich er beter toe lenen dan
andere, als MEDIUM voor het logisch denken dienst te doen. |translation=It is
very probable that some language are more suitable to being used as a MEDIUM
for logical thinking than others are.}}
1. [nl] [en] which a wave or force traverses
2. * 2009 , Douglas C. Giancoli, _Natuurkunde. Deel 2: Elektriciteit, magnetism, optica en moderne fysica_ , (tr. by Marianne Kerkhof & Louis Rijk Vertaling, red. by Luc van Hoorebeeke & Jan Rykebusch), Pearson (4th edition), 1100.
3. *: {{ quote | nl | Ze noemden dit transparante MEDIUM de ether en gingen ervan uit dat de hele ruimte ervan doordrongen was.
|translation=They called this transparent MEDIUM aether and assumed that all
of space was completely pervaded by it.}}
1. [nl] middle voice
2. [nl] means of communication , media outlet
3. [nl] data [en] , something that contains data
4. channeler , someone who claims to access the dead
***** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
***** Descendants
- [id]
*** Etymology 2
Borrowed from [nl], from [nl].
**** Pronunciation
- [nl]
**** Noun
[n]
1. something of medium size
**** Adjective
[-]
1. of medium size
2. [nl] medium rare
***** Declension
[medium]
***** Synonyms
- [medium rare] [nl]
** Indonesian
[lang=id]
*** Etymology
- From [id] , from [id] .
- [id] for a measurement intermediate between extremes.
*** Pronunciation
- [id]
- [id]
*** Noun
[head=médium]
1. [en] ,
1. anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes
2. the means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved
3. someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world
4. [id] the materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass
5. [id] a nutrient solution for the growth
2. [id] media
**** Alternative forms
- [id]
*** Further reading
- [R:KBBI Daring]
** Latin
*** Pronunciation
- [medium]
*** Adjective
[la]
1. [la]
*** Noun
[medium <2>]
1. middle , center , medium , midst
2. community , public , publicity
**** Declension
[medium <2>]
**** Derived terms
- [la]
- [la]
**** Descendants
(All borrowings, inherited terms merged with the descendants of [la]) [top4]
- [ca]
- [da]
- [nl]
- [id]
- [en]
- [nl]
- [fr]
- [de]
- [it]
- [nb]
- [nn]
- [pt]
- [ro]
- [rm]
- [es]
- [sv]
[bottom]
*** Noun
[la]
1. [la]
*** References
- [R:L&S]
- [R:Elementary Lewis]
- [R:du Cange]
- [R:M&A]
** Norwegian Bokmål
[lang=no] [lang=no]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nb].
*** Noun
[medi]
1. a [en] [also in spiritualism]
**** Derived terms
- [nb]
- [nb]
*** See also
- [nb]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
[lang=nn]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nn].
*** Noun
[medi]
1. a [en] [also in spiritualism]
**** Derived terms
- [nn]
- [nn]
*** See also
- [nn]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl], from [pl]. [pl].
*** Pronunciation
[a=LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-medium.wav]
*** Noun
[n]
1. [pl] [en] [someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world]
2. means [instrument or condition for attaining a purpose]
3. [pl] middle voice
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-n]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [sv].
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en] (on some scale)
2. a [en] (substance in which some physical process takes place)
3. a [en] (format for transmitting information)
4. [sv] a [en]
5. [sv] middle voice
6. [sv] a mean
7. [sv] a middle part
**** Declension
[2=mediet] [2=mediet]
**** Related terms
{{col|sv |etermedium |lagringsmedium |massmedium |medel |mediaklimat |medial
}}
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]