media
Meanings
noun
- 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
noun
- plural of medium (only in certain senses)
- plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)
noun
- The 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.
name
- A geographic region and ancient satrapy of the Persian Empire in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes.
- A possible ancient kingdom ruled by the Medes from approximately 700 to 550 BCE, whose extent and sometimes even existence is debated.
- A place in the United States:
- A township and village therein, in Henderson County, Illinois.
- A ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas.
- A borough, the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
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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.
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