Medium

(noun.) an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication.

(noun.) a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information.

(noun.) (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.

(noun.) the surrounding environment; 'fish require an aqueous medium'.

(noun.) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; 'he consulted several mediums'.

(noun.) a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; 'a happy medium'.

(noun.) an intervening substance through which something is achieved; 'the dissolving medium is called a solvent'.

(noun.) (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed.

(noun.) a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter.

(adj.) (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside .

厄玛编辑

• I moved the table, like a Medium of the present day, by the vigor of my unseen hold upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I thought it best to hint, through the medium of a meditative look, that this might be occasioned by circumstances over which I had no control. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They appeared soon after the news of Lady Glyde's marriage had been made public in the newspapers, and had reached her through that medium. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If it is equipped with a three-heat switch, it can be adjusted to 600 watts at full, 300 at medium and 150 at low, which means a great saving in current for most small cooking operations. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The ether must be distinguished from the air, for science means by it a medium which exists everywhere and is to be regarded as permeating all space and all matter. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The artist does that: he controls his medium so that we come most readily to the heart of his intention. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The medium of exchange upon Mars is not dissimilar from our own except that the coins are oval. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• He was of medium height, attractively built. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But there is evidently a medium, viz. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• And such media have no fixed saturation point where further absorption is impossible. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We begin to learn precisely what was going on at the same time in Egypt and Spain and Media and India and China. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It affected the mixed people who had been placed in Samaria, the old capital of the kings of Israel when the ten tribes were deported to Media. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such culture media are found in beef blood, gelatine, beef extracts, meat broth, milk, etc. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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