Mediums and Medium

noun

• A means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information.
• The surrounding environment.
  • usage: "fish require an aqueous medium"
• 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.
  • synonyms: culture medium
• 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.
  • usage: "the dissolving medium is called a solvent"
• A state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position.
  • usage: "a happy medium"
• Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead.
  • usage: "he consulted several mediums"
  • synonyms: spiritualist, sensitive
• Usually plural. ( transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public)
  • synonyms: mass medium
• An occupation for which you are especially well suited.
  • usage: "in law he found his true metier"
  • synonyms: metier

adjective

• Around the middle of a scale of evaluation.
  • usage: "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"
  • synonyms: average, intermediate
• Meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside. (.

• (n.) See Mean.
• (n.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application.
• (n.) That which lies in the middle or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.
• (n.) An average.
• (n.) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
• (a.) Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.
• (n.) A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper.
• (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.