media
Meanings
Noun
- a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
- the surrounding environment
- an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
- (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
- a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
- (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
- an intervening substance through which something is achieved
- a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position
- someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
- (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
- an occupation for which you are especially well suited
- The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- A voiced stop consonant.
- One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
- An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
- plural of medium (only in certain senses)
- plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)
- Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
- The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
- The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
- Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
Adj
- Clipping of multimedia.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.
Synonyms
cuarto, culture medium, M, mass medium, medium, metier, sensitive, spiritualist
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
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