Mediate vs Interpose - What's the difference?
mediate | interpose | Related terms |
To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
To divide into two equal parts.
To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
Acting through a mediating agency.
* (Oliver Sacks)
Intermediate between extremes.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
* Sir W. Hamilton
To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
* Cowper
To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
Mediate is a related term of interpose.
As an adjective mediate
is .As a verb interpose is
.mediate
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Verb
(mediat)- (Holder)
Adjective
- Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
- (Prior)
- (Francis Bacon)
- An act of mediate knowledge is complex.
Derived terms
* mediatelyExternal links
* * ----interpose
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Verb
(en-verb)- to interpose a screen between the eye and the light
- Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.
- What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?
- (Milton)
- long hid by interposing hill or wood.