Intermediate vs Propenultimate - What's the difference?
intermediate | propenultimate |
Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
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, title= 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.
to mediate, to be an intermediate
to arrange, in the manner of a broker
(rare) Two before the last, an alternative to antepenultimate.
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As adjectives the difference between intermediate and propenultimate
is that intermediate is being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range while propenultimate is two before the last, an alternative to antepenultimate.As a noun intermediate
is anything in an intermediate position.As a verb intermediate
is to mediate, to be an intermediate.intermediate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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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(en noun)Verb
(intermediat)- Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
Derived terms
* intermediation *propenultimate
English
Adjective
(-)- “Halnaker is the family name?”
“Yes. Spelt H-a-l-n-a-k-e-r and pronounced Hannaker, with the accent on the Hann—the pro-penultimate', as we were taught to call it at school. The ' propenultimate , if you please. What unmitigated nonsense! Why not the last-but-two?”
- In Latin polysyllabic words are stressed on the penultimate syllable if this is long; otherwise on the propenultimate syllable, provided that there is one.