| NOUN | communication | medium | a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information |
|---|---|---|---|
| location | medium | the surrounding environment | |
| communication | medium | an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication | |
| substance | medium, culture medium | (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid / liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms | |
| substance | medium | a liquid / liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter / painter | |
| substance | medium | (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed | |
| substance | medium | an intervening substance through which something is achieved | |
| state | medium | a state that is intermediate between extremes | |
| person | medium, spiritualist, sensitive | someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | |
| communication | medium, mass medium | (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public | |
| act | medium, metier | an occupation for which you are especially well suited | |
| ADJECTIVE | all | medium, average, intermediate | around the middle of a scale of evaluation |
| all | medium | (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside |
| Sounds | miy'diyahm | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abolitionism ... zirconium: 557 rhymes with ahm... | |
| Meaning | Around the middle of a scale of evaluation. | |
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| Example | "medium bombers" | |
| Synonyms | average, intermediate | |
| Broader | moderate | Within reasonable or average limits |
| Spanish | intermedio, mediano, medio | |
| Catalan | intermedi, intermig, mig, mitjà | |
| Meaning | (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | cooked | Having been prepared for eating by the application of heat |
| Meaning | A means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | album, record album | One or more recordings issued together |
| cool medium, cold medium | A medium that usually, but not always, provides little involvement together with substantial stimulus | |
| film, cinema, celluloid | A medium that disseminates moving pictures | |
| hot medium | A medium that usually, but not always, provides complete involvement together without considerable stimulus | |
| paper | A medium for written communication | |
| print media | A medium that disseminates printed matter | |
| storage medium, data-storage medium | A medium for storing information | |
| telecommunication, telecom | (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | |
| vehicle | A medium for the expression or achievement of something | |
| Broader | instrumentality, instrumentation | An artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end |
| Spanish | medio de comunicación, medio | |
| Catalan | medi, mitjà de comunicació, mitjà | |
| Meaning | The surrounding environment. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "fish require an aqueous medium" | |
| Broader | environment, environs, surroundings, surround | The area in which something exists or lives |
| Spanish | medio | |
| Catalan | medi | |
| Meaning | An intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication. | |
|---|---|---|
| Category of | ban, censor | forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) |
| Narrower | air, airwave | Medium for radio and television broadcasting |
| ether, aether | A medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves | |
| Broader | communication, communicating | The activity of communicating |
| Spanish | medio | |
| Catalan | mitjà | |
| Meaning | (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid / liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | culture medium | |
| Category | bacteriology | The branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease |
| Narrower | agar, nutrient agar | Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent |
| Broader | food, nutrient | Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue |
| Spanish | medio de cultivo, medio | |
| Catalan | medi de cultiu, medi | |
| Meaning | A liquid / liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter / painter. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | megilp, magilp | A medium for oil-paints |
| Broader | liquid | A substance that is liquid / liquid at room temperature and pressure |
| Meaning | (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed. | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
| Narrower | contrast medium, contrast material | A substance that is opaque to x-rays |
| Broader | substance | The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists |
| Catalan | medi | |
| Meaning | An intervening substance through which something is achieved. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the dissolving medium is called a solvent" | |
| Narrower | solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent | A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances |
| Broader | substance | The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists |
| Meaning | A state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a happy medium" | |
| Broader | state | The way something is with respect to its main attributes |
| Adjectives | medial | relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle |
| Meaning | someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "he consulted several mediums" | |
| Synonyms | spiritualist, sensitive | |
| Broader | psychic | A person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception |
| Spanish | espiritista, espiritualista, medium, médium, sensible | |
| Catalan | espiritista, espiritualista, mèdium | |
| Meaning | (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | mass medium | |
| Narrower | broadcast medium, broadcasting | A medium that disseminates via telecommunications |
| Broader | transmission | communication by means of transmitted signals |
| Spanish | medios de comunicación de masas | |
| Meaning | An occupation for which you are especially well suited. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | metier | |
| Broader | occupation, business, job, line of work, line | The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money |
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