Mediate vs Transmit - What's the difference?
mediate | transmit |
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 send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
To communicate news or information.
To convey energy or force through a mechanism.
To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).
As an adjective mediate
is .As a verb transmit 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.