Intermediate vs Intercede - What's the difference?

intermediate | intercede |

As verbs the difference between intermediate and intercede

is that intermediate is to mediate, to be an intermediate while intercede is .

As an adjective intermediate

is being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

As a noun intermediate

is anything in an intermediate position.

intermediate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , which covered his belly to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both sides.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}

Synonyms

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Noun

(en noun)

Anything in an intermediate position.

An intermediary.

(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

Verb

(intermediat)

to mediate, to be an intermediate

to arrange, in the manner of a broker

Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

Derived terms

* intermediation *

intercede

English

Verb

(interced)

To plead on someone else's behalf.

To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.

* Milton

I to the lords will intercede , not doubting their favourable ear.

To pass between; to intervene.

* Sir M. Hale

He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.

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