Small vs Intermediate - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between small and intermediate

is that small is to become small; to dwindle while intermediate is to mediate, to be an intermediate.

As adjectives the difference between small and intermediate

is that small is not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size while intermediate is being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

As nouns the difference between small and intermediate

is that small is any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back while intermediate is anything in an intermediate position.

As verbs the difference between small and intermediate

is that small is to make little or less while intermediate is to mediate, to be an intermediate.

As an adverb small

is in a small fashion.

As a proper noun Small

is {{surname}.

small

English

Adjective

(er)

Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.

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(figuratively) Young, as a child.

(writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.

Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

* Carlyle

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

a small space of time

Synonyms

* (not large or big) little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also * little, wee (Scottish), young * (of written letters) lowercase, minuscule

Antonyms

* See also * (not large or big) capital, big, generous (said of an amount of something given), large * adult, grown-up, old * (of written letters) big, capital, majuscule, uppercase

Derived terms

* small arm * small arms * small beer * small calorie * small-cell lung cancer * small change * small claims court * smallclothes * smaller European elm bark beetle * small forward * small fry * smallgoods * smallholder * smallholding * small hours * small intestine * smallish * small-minded * smallmouth * smallmouth bass * smallmouth black bass * smallness * small potatoes * smallpox * smalls * small-scale * small screen * small stuff * smallsword * small talk * small-time * * small wonder * twice as small * twice as small as

Adverb

(er)

In a small fashion.

* (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream) , Act I, scene 2, line 49:

That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.

In or into small pieces.

* 2009 , Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)

That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.

(obsolete) To a small extent.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Sonnets , "Lucrece", line 1273

It small avails my mood.

Derived terms

* writ small

Noun

(en noun)

Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

(UK, in the plural) Underclothes.

Derived terms

* small of the back

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To make little or less.

To become small; to dwindle.

* Thomas Hardy

And smalled till she was nought at all.

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intermediate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

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

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* {{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 *