Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A plural of medium. See Usage Note at medium.
- n. Linguistics See medial.
- n. The middle, often muscular layer of the wall of a blood vessel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy, the middle tunic of an artery or a lymphatic vessel. Leidy, Anat. (1889).
- n. Plural of medium.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- n. linguistics, dated A voiced stop consonant.
- n. Plural form of medium.
- n. Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
- n. The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium.
- n. The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media.
Etymologies
- Late Latin, from Latin, feminine of Latin medius, middle; see medium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Yes, this code word for \ "liberal media, \" or \ "not liberal enough media\" or \ "not-the-person-on-the-television-at-that-moment media, \" is like rice deploring white.”
“Such media should be referred to as _liquefiable media_; in point of fact, however, they are usually grouped together with the solid media.”
“Referring to a claim by media that Ma was only informed about the situation following an inquiry from CNA, Chang said the government must learn from the episode because it cannot rely on the media to when dealing with developing crises.”
“The @media rule allows different style rules for different media in the same style sheet.”
“Brent Bozell III is president of the Media Research Center, a media watchdog organization that popularized the term "media bias.”
“Fred Friendly, the CBS News president at one point, said what really matters in media is not the First Amendment or censorship, but the master switch - this idea that there's some control of information that the industries have beyond anything else.”
“Science fiction in media is exponentially bigger as a market than science fiction in literary form.”
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“Part of the reason I have a hard time w/accepting accolades or even compliments, really, for any of the posting or community moderating i've done, re: race and representation in media, is that I really refuse to accept the idea that I'm doing anything new.”
“The phrase "media event" doesn't quite capture what was going on.”
“And the term "media" in the lab's title has taken on seemingly unbounded meaning.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘media’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Keywords, by Raymond Williams
From a book about life and death.
aesthetic, alienation, art, behaviour, bourgeois, bureaucracy, capitalism, career, charity, city, civilization, class and 99 more...
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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Conspiracies
...And all that heavy metal.
kurt cobain, courtney love, tom grant, exodus rehab clinic, california, seattle, record industry e..., military industri..., mic, yugoslavia, heroin, credit cards and 202 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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UO Digi-Scholars List
A list of words for creating a new name for the U of O Digital Scholars Group.
oregon, northwest, cascadia, pacific, collaboratory, consortium, community, interdisciplinary, research, scholars, scholarly, media and 12 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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E pluribus
Interesting Plurals
cherubim, seraphim, culs-de-sac, adjutants-general, aides-de-camp, passersby, courts-martial, commanders-in-chief, fleurs-de-lis, knickerbockers glory, heirs apparent, billets doux and 97 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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nuwerdna's Words
smegma, defenestration, nubile, zeitgeist, stochastic, ergodic, stability, maudlin, recursion, aversion, agent, set and 239 more...
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zachg's Words
verisimilitude, phenomenology, polyvalent, aleatoric, ontology, epistemology, solipsism, monad, hermeneutic, heuristic, performative, constative and 142 more...
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WrightHandWords's Words
yclept, unction, prana, satya, abhyasa, vairagya, yoga, ashtanga, acronym, etymology, asana, widget and 286 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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