media vs medium

Definitions

noun

1. a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
2. (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
3. a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
4. (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
5. an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication

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adjective

1. around the middle of a scale of evaluation
2. (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside

Examples

She is "not a medium", we are told, but rather "a supersensory explorer who has been trained in the cosmic language of symbols for more than 20 years.

The huge amounts that this would bring in would allow the personal allowance to be raised by a couple of thousand, helping those on low and medium incomes.

As the male voice completed its speech, she slowly shifted herself around to face a gentleman of medium height who had a smiling, benign countenance on his careworn features.

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