Think of the word medium as something in between. In clothing, we have small, medium, and large; in communications, it's what signals travel through from broadcast to receiver; and in spiritual terms, it’s a person who converses with the dead.
That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically:
Noun
an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier"
Noun
an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
Noun
a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
Noun
transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
Noun
the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium"
Noun
someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums"
Noun
a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium"
Noun
an intervening substance through which something is achieved; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent"
Noun
(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
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(biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
Noun
a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
Adjective S.
(of meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside
Adjective S.
around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"
n.
That which lies in the middle, or between other things;
intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or
degree; mean.
n.
See Mean.
n.
The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the
extremes are brought into connection.
n.
A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one
thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The
condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of
motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished,
conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism,
spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being
is said to be manifested and transmitted.
n.
An average.
n.
A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain
sizes. See Paper.
n.
The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and
prepared for application.
a.
Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate;
medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.
Medium
The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection.
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.3.
A medium of six years of war, and six years of peace.4.
Medium
That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically:
Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial;
Usage Examples
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Other Usage ExamplesFilm is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
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