Medium vs Vessel - What's the difference?
medium | vessel |
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.
(nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
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A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
* Bible, Acts ix. 15
* Milton
* Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:
(biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
(obsolete) To put into a vessel.
As nouns the difference between medium and vessel
is that medium is medium while vessel is (nautical) any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.As a verb vessel is
(obsolete|transitive) to put into a vessel.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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* * English nouns with irregular plurals English words affected by prescriptivism ----vessel
English
Noun
(en noun)- But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
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- He is a chosen vessel unto me.
- [The serpent] fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.
- I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.
- Blood or lymph vessels''' in humans, xylem or phloem '''vessels in plants .
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* broken vessel * empty vessels make the most sound * lightvessel * microvessel * pressure vessel * reaction vessel * unvessel * weaker vesselVerb
- (Francis Bacon)