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Intermediate vs Midway - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between intermediate and midway

is that intermediate is being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range while midway is being in the middle of the way or distance; middle.

As nouns the difference between intermediate and midway

is that intermediate is anything in an intermediate position while midway is the middle; the midst.

As a verb intermediate

is to mediate, to be an intermediate.

As an adverb midway is

halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points.

As a proper noun Midway is

a town in Alabama.

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

    * See also

    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 *

    midway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The middle; the midst.
  • A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Milton
    • Paths indirect, or in the midway faint.
  • (US) The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated.
  • (US) The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard) along which various buildings are aligned

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.}}