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Menial vs Medial - What's the difference?

menial | medial |

As adjectives the difference between menial and medial

is that menial is of or relating to work normally performed by a servant while medial is of or pertaining to a mean or average.

As nouns the difference between menial and medial

is that menial is a servant, especially a domestic servant while medial is one or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.

menial

English

(wikipedia menial)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
  • Of or relating to unskilled work. (rfex)
  • servile; low; mean
  • His sister was a menial girl, but he sought to help her develop a mind of her own.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A servant, especially a domestic servant.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.}}
  • A person who has a subservient nature.
  • medial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
  • :
  • In or near the middle; not at either end.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial , or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • (lb) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.
  • :
  • # (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
  • (lb) Closer to the addressee.
  • Antonyms

    * (anatomy) lateral

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Derived terms

    * medial capital * medially

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
  • Any of various things that occur in the middle.
  • Anagrams

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