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词汇 medium
释义 medium
adjective
uk /ˈmiː.di.əm/ us /ˈmiː.di.əm/

mediumadjective (MIDDLE)


B1
being in the middle between an upper and lower amount, size, degree, or value: 中间的;中等的;适中的
a girl of medium height中等身材的女孩
a medium-sized book中等开本的书
My hairdryer has three settings - high, medium and low.我的吹风机有3挡——高温、中温和低温挡。
I take a medium size in clothes.
He earns a medium amount of money.
Cook the sauce over a medium heat.
Chop one medium carrot.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Medium-sized
average
M, m
middle
midi
midsize
mildness
moderate
moderately

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Averages

mediumadjective (MEAT)


(of meat) cooked so that it is no longer red in the middle: (肉)烧得适中的,中等熟度的
Would you like your steak rare, medium, or well done?你的牛排要嫩的、中熟的还是熟透的?
Compare
rare(OF MEAT)
well done
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preparing food using heat
air fryer
bain-marie
baking
baking parchment
barbecue
blanch
cooking
deep fat fryer
deep-fried
deep-fry
done
overdone
pan-fry
parboil
poach
poaching
undercook
underdone
warm (someone/something) up
wood-fired
medium
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈmiː.di.əm/ us /ˈmiː.di.əm/

mediumnoun[C] (METHOD)


C2pluralmedia or mediums
a method or way of expressing something: 媒介;方法,手段
the broadcasting/print medium广播/印刷媒介
They told the story through the medium of dance.他们用舞蹈的形式来讲述这个故事。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Media in general
anti-press
consume
editorially
mainstream media
media
media event
MSM
non-broadcast
organ
press
profile
publishing
the Fourth Estate
the mass media
unreported
vehicle

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Ways of achieving things

mediumnoun[C] (PERSON)


pluralmediums
a person who says that they can receive messages from people who are dead灵媒,巫师
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who perform magic or have paranormal abilities
alchemist
clairvoyant
conjurer
coven
crone
escapologist
ghostbuster
illusionist
mage
magician
psychic
seer
shaman
soothsayer
sorcerer
sorceress
visionary
witch doctor
wizard
wizardly

mediumnoun[C] (SUBSTANCE)


a substance that something grows in, lives in, or moves through: 媒介物,媒质
Compost is an excellent growing medium.堆肥是一种优秀的生长媒介。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Mixing and mixtures
amalgam
be neither one thing nor the otheridiom
blend
blend in/blend into something
blender
blitz
churn
crossed
decoction
emulsion
guaraná
homogeneous mixture
meld
methylate
mingle
mosaic
mush
saturated solution
scramble
synthesis

medium | American Dictionary


medium
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈmid·i·əm/

mediumadjective[not gradable] (AVERAGE)


being in the middle between an upper and lower amount, size, or degree; average:
He was a man of medium height.
The shirt is available in small, medium, and large sizes.
Medium also refers to a way of cooking meat or fish so that it is cooked in the middle:
Would you like your steak rare, medium, or well-done?
medium
noun[ C ]

mediumnoun[C] (METHOD)


us/ˈmid·i·əm/pluralmediums or mediaus/ˈmid·i·ə/
a method or way of expressing something:
the broadcasting/print medium
artus/ˈmid·i·əm/pluralmediums or mediaus/ˈmid·i·ə/
The medium that an artist works in is the materials or method used to create things:
The work of art was done in mixed media (= using different substances), and included wood shavings, pieces of metal, glue, and oil paint.

mediumnoun[C] (MATERIAL/SUBSTANCE)


physicsus/ˈmid·i·əm/
the material through which a wave or other force travels

mediumnoun[C] (PERSON)


us/ˈmid·i·əm/pluralmediums
a person who claims to receive messages from people who are dead

medium | Business English


medium
noun
uk /ˈmiːdiəm/us
[ C ] COMMUNICATIONS pluralmedia or mediums
a method of communication or entertainment, for example television, radio, or the internet:
a medium of sthInteractive TV opens up the medium of television to the participation of individuals.
a medium for sthThe internet is a growing medium for uncensored information and discussion.
Typically cinema is the chosen medium for visualizing the future.
advertising/communications/marketing mediumMany businesses are finding Web video an attractive marketing medium.
digital/interactive/storage mediaThe government has identified digital media as a key opportunity.
[ C ]pluralmedia or mediums
something that is used as a way of creating or expressing something else:
a medium for sthProducts are the medium for communication between corporations and the market.
a medium of sthBody language is often consciously used as a medium of expressing thoughts and feelings.
through the medium of sthThey advertise through the medium of direct mail.
[ C,usually singular ] COMMERCE
a size of clothes that is between small and large:
Could I try on a medium, please?

See also


display medium
medium
adjective
uk /ˈmiːdiəm/us
used to describe something that is between small and large in size:
Production of existing small and medium cars will continue at the plant.

Examples of medium


medium
The medium's reemission plays an important role in the profile of the ionization front.
Only recently, the terms ' mondialisation ' and ' globalisation' had acquired striking currency in official and unofficial media around the country.
Their actions, embedded in a political culture that promotes mutual criticism in each other's presence, enjoys government attention and media support.
The media play the role of referee, reminding both civil society and the state of the importance of negotiating.
The linkage between translation and interpreting in the media context is another subject worth delving into in the future.
We now turn to the adver tising habits of another institution - tutorial services - which utilizes language difference in selling distinctions in school mediums.
He describes a kind of independent 'hereand-now' (which is interesting for an aesthetic approach to media art).
On the other, she seeks that immediacy through the acknowledgement and multiplication of media.
If the second hypothesis is more accurate, it means that self-reported media exposure is probably a better indicator of interest than the subjective self-assessment.
To assess the degree to which the effect of date on knowledge comes through increased attention to the media, a two-equation structural model is necessary.
If the public is scandalized by a social problem, the media may demand that penalties be raised.
Such criticism has received wide media coverage and is taken very seriously politically in donor countries.
Two new representational media, sculpture and epigraphy, could be recruited to the same ends.
Each of these media has an architectonics - a series of procedures for material and spatial organisation, structure and construction.
The two projects presented here experiment in different media with the imagining of a world in distraction.
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Collocations withmedium


medium

These are words often used in combination with medium.

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artistic medium
With popular music, the artisticmedium would probably be most recognisable as a song or an album.
broadcast medium
There is no argument about the fact that the principle broadcastmedium is television, and that it has an enormous and potentially beneficial influence on our lives.
From the
Hansard archive

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electronic medium
Another electronicmedium which hardly requires an introduction is the internet.
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