What is the difference between media and medium?
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(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
Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
The nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
The material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
* Francis Bacon
* Denham
(senseid) A format for communicating or presenting information.
The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
A nutrient solution for the growth of cells ''in vitro .
* 1996 , Samuel Baron (editor), Medical Microbiology :
The means or channel by which an aim is achieved.
A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
A tool used for painting or drawing.
Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
A middle place or degree.
* L'Estrange
(dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
* Burke
(logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
(obsolete) Arithmetically average.
Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
As nouns the difference between media and medium
is that media is (anatomy) the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue or media can be (medium) while medium is the nature of the surrounding environment, eg solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.As a adjective medium is
(obsolete) arithmetically average.media
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Etymology 1
Noun
(mediae)Usage notes
Not to be confused with medium.Derived terms
* tunica media * medialSynonyms
*(vein of insect wing) MAntonyms
* (voiced stop) (l)Etymology 2
Noun
(head)- 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.
- Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
medium
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(wikipedia medium)Noun
(en-noun)- Whether any other liquors, being made mediums , cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
- I must bring together / All these extremes; and must remove all mediums .
- In some instances one can take advantage of differential carbohydrate fermentation capabilities of microorganisms by incorporating one or more carbohydrates in the medium' along with a suitable pH indicator. Such '''media''' are called differential ' media (e.g., eosin methylene blue or MacConkey agar) and are commonly used to isolate enteric bacilli.
- Acrylics, oils, charcoal and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.
- a happy medium
- The just medium lies between pride and abjection.
- a medium of six years of war, and six years of peace