Telepath vs Medium - What's the difference?
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(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with telepathic ability; capable of reading the thoughts of others around them.
(parapsychology, science fiction) To communicate by thought; to use telepathy.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1896
, date = October
, magazine = Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
, title = A Diary of Telepathic Impressions
, url = http://archive.org/details/journalofsociety07sociuoft
, volume = 7
, issue = 132
, page = 300
, passage = Jan. 3rd, 1984.—I was in the front sitting-room and dare not go out of the room for the cold; my plants were awfully dry, and hearing E. [her niece] in the kitchen, I telepathed to her to bring me in some water. She at once came with a jug full and asked if I would water the plants.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1947
, date = June
, first = Raymond A.
, last = Palmer
, authorlink = Raymond A. Palmer
, magazine =
, title = Observatory
, url =
, volume = 21
, issue = 6
, page = 9
, passage = He does not attribute one single experience to what we might term a "ghost" for lack of a better term. Witches, poltergeists, goblins, gremlins, fairies, dwarfs—all of them are real, physical, alive, being either the real thing or the teleported or telepathed image of the real thing.
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* 1973 February, , Iron Man , number 55:
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.
Telepath is a related term of medium.
As nouns the difference between telepath and medium
is that telepath is (parapsychology|science fiction) a person with telepathic ability; capable of reading the thoughts of others around them while medium is medium.As a verb telepath
is (parapsychology|science fiction) to communicate by thought; to use telepathy.telepath
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Thanos: "Did you not suspect I could tell you had been telepathing ?"
See also
* empath * technopath * cyberpathmedium
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