Mediate vs Interfere - What's the difference?
mediate | interfere | Related terms |
To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
To divide into two equal parts.
To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
Acting through a mediating agency.
* (Oliver Sacks)
Intermediate between extremes.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
* Sir W. Hamilton
To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
(physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped]] or [[superpose, superposed.
(mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
Mediate is a related term of interfere.
As an adjective mediate
is .As a verb interfere is
.mediate
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Verb
(mediat)- (Holder)
Adjective
- Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
- (Prior)
- (Francis Bacon)
- An act of mediate knowledge is complex.
Derived terms
* mediatelyExternal links
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Alternative forms
* enterfere (obsolete)Verb
(interfer)- I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.
- Correlated waves interfere''' to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without '''interfering .
- Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.