Medium vs Middle - What's the difference?
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The nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
The material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
* Francis Bacon
* Denham
(senseid) A format for communicating or presenting information.
The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
A nutrient solution for the growth of cells ''in vitro .
* 1996 , Samuel Baron (editor), Medical Microbiology :
The means or channel by which an aim is achieved.
A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
A tool used for painting or drawing.
Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
A middle place or degree.
* L'Estrange
(dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
* Burke
(logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
(obsolete) Arithmetically average.
Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
A centre, midpoint.
The part between the beginning and the end.
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, title= (cricket) The middle stump.
The central part of a human body.
(grammar) The middle voice.
Located in the middle; in between.
Central.
Pertaining to the middle voice.
Middle is a synonym of medium.
As nouns the difference between medium and middle
is that medium is the nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent while middle is a centre, midpoint.As adjectives the difference between medium and middle
is that medium is arithmetically average while middle is located in the middle; in between.As an adverb medium
is to a medium extent.medium
English
(wikipedia medium)Noun
(en-noun)- Whether any other liquors, being made mediums , cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
- I must bring together / All these extremes; and must remove all mediums .
- In some instances one can take advantage of differential carbohydrate fermentation capabilities of microorganisms by incorporating one or more carbohydrates in the medium' along with a suitable pH indicator. Such '''media''' are called differential ' media (e.g., eosin methylene blue or MacConkey agar) and are commonly used to isolate enteric bacilli.
- Acrylics, oils, charcoal and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.
- a happy medium
- The just medium lies between pride and abjection.
- a medium of six years of war, and six years of peace
Derived terms
* (sense) differential mediumAdjective
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Alternative forms
* myddle (obsolete)Noun
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Synonyms
* centre, center * midpoint * midstAdjective
(-)- the middle point
- middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages