medium
- noun
- /ˈmiːdiəm/
- Print newspapers are a traditional medium for delivering news to the public.
- mass medium
- medium of instruction
- communication medium
They want a reply that fits in their medium, a sound bite medium.
- They want a reply that fits in their medium, a sound bite medium.
- And I'm on all social media, so yeah, follow me there.
- He started, he started some media platform a long time ago.
- And to me, those two are like kind of a media hub for the West Coast.
- I know that video video video is the best marketing medium on the planet.
- And maybe, just maybe, according to our media, John Bolton can save us all.
- He is a big player in the mega media universe.
- And then we have Afghanistan, Trump versus social media, Shakari Richardson.
- It's the very medium through which we experience the world.
- I think books can do some things that other mediums like film or even music can't do.
- However, if it goes through a medium, it does.
Examples
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Television has always been a powerful medium for sharing news across the globe.
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In our fast-moving computer age, it's the medium of television that joins together our global community.
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I know that video video video is the best marketing medium on the planet.
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So it's a really interesting new medium for interaction.
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Music can actually be a really good medium for communicating truth.
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Technology has changed the medium, but the underlying purpose remains the same.
Academic text (2017) -
The medium of the counter-culture was collaboration, beginning with the obvious example of a rock group.
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Open-ended questions, both verbal and musical, are a powerful medium for cultivating a safe learning environment.
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Skillful users of the Internet can also use the medium to re-record, recreate, or remix their own content.
Academic text (2015) -
The internet serves as a crucial medium for modern communication and information exchange.
Synonyms
A machine that shows moving pictures and sound on a screen
Main ways of sending news and information to many people, like TV or newspapers
People and organizations that gather and publish news
A system for sending and receiving moving pictures and sound to broadcast programs like news or shows
A way of sending sound and music to many people using wireless signals
An official way to send information
Organizations like newspapers and TV that report and share news
A way to show ideas or feelings to other people
Newspapers and magazines printed on paper, not online
A way to send information to many people by radio or television
A way to send information between people, groups, or devices
A way to send information to many people, like TV or radio
A device like a hard drive or CD that holds computer files
A thing that stores digital information by changing tiny areas on its surface, like a hard drive
Compounds
- Specialized
The gas and dust that fill the space between stars in a galaxy
- Specialized
A thing that stores digital information by changing tiny areas on its surface, like a hard drive
- Specialized
A radio band used for AM broadcasts with long waves that travel far at night
- Specialized
A garden plant that usually lives two years with bell-shaped blue, violet, or white flowers, also called Canterbury bell
- Archaic
A way of communicating that gives little detail and asks the audience to imagine the rest
- Specialized
A liquid or dye used in medical scans to show parts inside the body, for example blood vessels
- Formal
A medium that gives little detail so people must fill in parts, like television or cartoons
- Specialized
A device or material that keeps information so you can use it later
- Specialized
A liquid or gas that holds tiny particles, like air with smoke and water with milk particles
- Specialized
A device that stores information using tiny magnetic areas like a hard drive or tape
- Specialized
A type of steel that is not very soft or very hard used when strength and flexibility are needed
- Specialized
A way of sending detailed information that needs little effort from people who receive it, like radio or film
- Specialized
Gas, dust, and particles that fill the space between the planets
How Public
- Texting
- Literature
- Texting
Surface Forms
Etymology
Medium comes from the Latin medius, meaning 'middle', like the word mediate. A communication medium is the channel that sits 'between' sender and receiver, so it carries messages from one side to the other.