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What (who) is medium - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Medium (disambiguation); Medium (bearer); Media (plural); The Medium (film)
medium
I. a.
Middle, mean, middling, mediocre.
II. n.
1.
Intervening substance, pervading substance.
2.
Means, instrumentality, agency.
3.
Mean, moderation.
4.
Mean average, mean proportion, mean.
5.
(Painting.) Menstruum.
6.
(Log.) Middle term.
medium
(mediums, media)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: The plural of the noun can be either 'mediums' or 'media' for meanings 4 and 5. The form 'mediums' is the plural for meaning 6.
1.
If something is of medium size, it is neither large nor small, but approximately half way between the two.
A medium dose produces severe nausea within hours...
He was of medium height with blond hair and light blue eyes.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
You use medium to describe something which is average in degree or amount, or approximately half way along a scale between two extremes.
Foods that contain only medium levels of sodium are bread, cakes, milk, butter and margarine.
...a sweetish, medium-strength beer.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
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Medium is also an adverb.
Cook under a medium-hot grill.
ADV: ADV adj
3.
If something is of a medium colour, it is neither light nor dark, but approximately half way between the two.
Andrea has medium brown hair, grey eyes and very pale skin...
COMB in COLOUR
4.
A medium is a way or means of expressing your ideas or of communicating with people.
In Sierra Leone, English is used as the medium of instruction for all primary education...
But Artaud was increasingly dissatisfied with film as a medium.
N-COUNT
5.
A medium is a substance or material which is used for a particular purpose or in order to produce a particular effect.
Blood is the medium in which oxygen is carried to all parts of the body...
Hyatt has found a way of creating these qualities using the more permanent medium of oil paint.
N-COUNT
6.
A medium is a person who claims to be able to contact and speak to people who are dead, and to pass messages between them and people who are still alive.
N-COUNT
7.
see also media
8.
If you strike or find a happy medium between two extreme and opposite courses of action, you find a sensible way of behaving that is somewhere between the two extremes.
I still aim to strike a happy medium between producing football that's worth watching and getting results...
PHRASE: PHR after v
medium
¦ noun (plural media or mediums)
1. an agency or means of doing something.
the material or form used by an artist, composer, or writer.
2. a substance through which sensory impressions are conveyed or physical forces are transmitted.
3. a particular form of storage material for computer files, such as magnetic tape or discs.
4. a liquid (e.g. oil) with which pigments are mixed to make paint.
5. (plural mediums) a person claiming to be able to communicate between the dead and the living.
6. the middle quality or state between two extremes.
7. the substance in which an organism lives or is cultured.
¦ adjective between two extremes; average.
Derivatives
mediumism noun
mediumistic adjective
mediumship noun
Origin
C16: from L., lit. 'middle'.
Examples of use of medium
1. In fact, we serve ours medium to medium–rare to keep the meat moist and succulent.
2. Stir together coconut milk and chicken broth in a medium saucepan and place over medium heat.
3. A blog is a medium of publication, and a means of publication that emerges from the medium.
4. "Ordering three lamb medium, branzino, rabbit." More?
5. According to Flood Warning Centre, the river Indus is in medium–to–high flood at Sukkur, medium flood at Kalabagh and Chashma and low–to–medium flood at Tarbela with rising tendency.