media
Noun
- Channels of mass communication, like television and radio.
- The middle layer of a blood or lymph vessel.
- a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
- the surrounding environment
- 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
- 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
- a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position
- someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
- (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
- an occupation for which you are especially well suited
- The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- A voiced stop consonant.
- One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
- An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
- plural of medium (only in certain senses)
- plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)
- Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
- The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
- The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
- Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
Adj
- Clipping of multimedia.
Examples
- Adjust media sound in multiple apps
- As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.
- Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.
- I have media files stored on an external hard drive.
- Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
- The anatomically correct word ’MEDIA’ was a bold play on the triple-letter score.
- The Scrabble tournament was covered by the MEDIA, showcasing top word athletes.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.
Synonyms
culture medium, mass medium, medium, metier, sensitive, spiritualist, M, cuarto
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
media: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmedia: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
media: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary