Using and Medium

noun

• An act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly. )
  • usage: "capitalistic exploitation of the working class"; "paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization"
  • synonyms: exploitation, victimization, victimisation

verb

• Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.
  • usage: "use your head"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"
  • synonyms: use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
• Take or consume (regularly or habitually. )
  • usage: "She uses drugs rarely"
  • synonyms: use, habituate
• Use up, consume fully.
  • usage: "The legislature expended its time on school questions"
  • synonyms: use, expend
• Seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage.
  • usage: "She uses her influential friends to get jobs"; "The president's wife used her good connections"
  • synonyms: use
• Avail oneself to.
  • usage: "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance"
  • synonyms: practice, apply, use
• Habitually do something (use only in the past tense. )
  • usage: "She used to call her mother every week but now she calls only occasionally"; "I used to get sick when I ate in that dining hall"; "They used to vacation in the Bahamas"
  • synonyms: use

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.