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Intermediate vs Middlings - What's the difference?

intermediate | middlings |

As nouns the difference between intermediate and middlings

is that intermediate is anything in an intermediate position while middlings is (cooking) low grade or coarse flour; coarse wheat mixed with bran.

As an adjective intermediate

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

As a verb intermediate

is to mediate, to be an intermediate.

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 *

    middlings

    English

    Noun

    (head) (plurale tantum)
  • (cooking) Low grade or coarse flour; coarse wheat mixed with bran.
  • * 1917 , Carl William Larson, Fred Silver Putney, Dairy cattle feeding and management , page 95,
    • Buckwheat middlings is a fairly good feed for dairy cows, being far superior to buckwheat bran.
  • The part of a pig between the shoulder and the ham.
  • (business) Partially refined ore or petroleum.
  • * 1924 , ,
    • The product described in the earlier contract is:
    'All the zinc sulphide crude ore, zinc sulphide concentrates and zinc sulphide middlings , shipped from Midvale, Utah, Kennett, Cal., or any other point by or under the control of the seller during the period of this agreement.'
  • (business) Commodities that are of intermediate price, size or quality.