Television vs Medium - What's the difference?
television | medium |
(uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
(countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
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.
As nouns the difference between television and medium
is that television is television while medium is medium.television
English
(wikipedia television)Noun
- It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
- I have an old television in the study.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
Derived terms
(television) * cable television * on television * televangelism * televangelist * television channel * television network * television station * TVSynonyms
(television) * boob tube * cultural barbiturate * electronic babysitter * glass teat * goggle box * idiot box * plebvision * the shit box * television set * telly * the tube * TVAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----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