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media | broadcasting |

As nouns the difference between media and broadcasting

is that media is the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue while broadcasting is the business or profession of radio and television.

As a proper noun Media

is a historical region in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes.

As an adjective broadcasting is

sending in all directions.

As a verb broadcasting is

present participle of lang=en.

media

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(mediae)
  • (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  • (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.
  • (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
    • Usage notes
    Not to be confused with medium.
    Derived terms
    * tunica media * medial
    Synonyms
    *(vein of insect wing) M
    Antonyms
    * (voiced stop) (l)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
    • As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media''' and, second, web-based '''media''', traditional print-based ' media has declined in popularity.
  • The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
    • Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
    Derived terms
    * media darling * media event (pos n) * mediagenic * mediascape (pos n) * multimedia * mass media * mainstream media * media circus * media whore

    Anagrams

    * English disputed terms English nouns with irregular plurals English words affected by prescriptivism ----

    broadcasting

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Sending in all directions.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia broadcasting)
  • (business) The business or profession of radio and television.
    • Broadcasting can be a lucrative field, but very few people end up on the air.
  • The act by which something is broadcast.
    • frequent broadcastings of the same old material

    Verb

    (head)
    • This radio station is broadcasting at a frequency of 104Mhz.
    We sowed the seeds, broadcasting with a rotary spreader.