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Midway vs Mediate - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between midway and mediate

is that midway is being in the middle of the way or distance; middle while mediate is acting through a mediating agency.

As a noun midway

is the middle; the midst.

As an adverb midway

is halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points.

As a proper noun Midway

is a town in Alabama.

As a verb mediate is

to resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.

midway

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The middle; the midst.
  • A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Milton
    • Paths indirect, or in the midway faint.
  • (US) The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated.
  • (US) The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard) along which various buildings are aligned

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points
  • * {{quote-news
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    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

    • Related terms

    * mean * median * mediation * mediator * medium

    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

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