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Whiz vs Intermediate - What's the difference?

whiz | intermediate |

As verbs the difference between whiz and intermediate

is that whiz is to make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air while intermediate is to mediate, to be an intermediate.

As nouns the difference between whiz and intermediate

is that whiz is a whirring or hissing sound (as above) while intermediate is anything in an intermediate position.

As an adjective intermediate is

being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

whiz

English

Alternative forms

* whizz

Verb

  • To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
  • To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
  • To throw or spin rapidly.
  • (vulgar, slang) To urinate.
    • We whizzed in the bushes.

    Noun

    (whizzes)
  • A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
  • (informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
  • An act of urination; a wiz.
    • I have to take a whiz .
  • (UK, slang, uncountable) amphetamine.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * whiz kid

    intermediate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , which covered his belly to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both sides.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything in an intermediate position.
  • An intermediary.
  • (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

    • Verb

    (intermediat)
  • to mediate, to be an intermediate
  • to arrange, in the manner of a broker
    • Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

    Derived terms

    * intermediation *