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Mediate vs Interpose - What's the difference?

mediate | interpose | Related terms |

Mediate is a related term of interpose.


As an adjective mediate

is .

As a verb interpose is

.

mediate

English

Verb

(mediat)
  • 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.
  • (Holder)
  • To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
  • Adjective

  • Acting through a mediating agency.
  • * (Oliver Sacks)
  • 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.
  • Intermediate between extremes.
  • (Prior)
  • Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
  • An act of mediate knowledge is complex.

    Derived terms

    * mediately

    interpose

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
  • to interpose a screen between the eye and the light
  • * Cowper
  • Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.
  • * Shakespeare
  • What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?
  • To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
  • (Milton)
  • To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
  • * Cowper
  • long hid by interposing hill or wood.
  • To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
  • Synonyms

    * insert * (To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment) interrupt

    Anagrams

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