Mediate vs Mediae - What's the difference?
mediate | mediae |
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
(media)
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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.
As an adjective mediate
is .As a noun mediae is
(media).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
* * ----mediae
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Noun
(head)media
English
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.
