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Medicates vs Mediates - What's the difference?

medicates | mediates |

As a verb medicates

is (medicate).

As an adjective mediates is

.

medicates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (medicate)
  • Anagrams

    *

    medicate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To prescribe or administer medication.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    mediates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mediate)

  • 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