Synonyms of the word

medium

• n. (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum,…
• n. (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
• n. (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
• n. (plural media or mediums, engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing…
• n. (plural media or mediums, microbiology) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
• n. (plural media or mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
• n. (plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
• n. (plural mediums or media, painting) A tool used for painting or drawing.
• n. (plural mediums, spiritualism) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
• n. (plural mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
• n. (plural mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
• n. (plural mediums, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
• n. A middle place or degree.
• n. (dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
• n. (logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
• adj. (obsolete) Arithmetically average.
• adj. Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
• adj. Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still…
• adv. to a medium extent.

average

• n. (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
• n. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
• n. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
• n. (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
• n. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
• n. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal…
• adj. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
• adj. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
• adj. Typical.
• adj. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
• v. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
• v. (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value…
• v. (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
• v. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
• n. (Britain, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant,…

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

communicating

• v. present participle of communicate.

communication

• n. The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
• n. (uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
• n. A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
• n. The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
• n. An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
• n. A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
• n. (anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
• n. (obsolete) Association; company.
• n. Participation in Holy Communion.
• n. (rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says…

cooked

• adj. Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.
• adj. (computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking…
• adj. (idiomatic, of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of cook.

environment

• n. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
• n. The natural world or ecosystem.
• n. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
• n. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
• n. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
• n. (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of…
• n. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with…

environs

• n. The surroundings; the environment.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of environ.

instrumentality

• n. (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
• n. (countable, law) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
• n. (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument.

instrumentation

• n. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
• n. The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration;…
• n. The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance.
• n. On a vehicle, dashboard gauges monitoring engine functions and performance, along with other essential…

intermediate

• adj. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
• n. Anything in an intermediate position.
• n. An intermediary.
• n. (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
• v. (intransitive) to mediate, to be an intermediate.
• v. (transitive) to arrange, in the manner of a broker.

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

liquid

• n. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules,…
• n. (phonetics) A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
• adj. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among…
• adj. (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
• adj. (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
• adj. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
• adj. (phonology) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
• adj. Fluid and transparent.

matter

• n. Substance, material.
• n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
• n. An approximate amount or extent.
• n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
• n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
• n. (dated) Pus.
• v. (intransitive) To be important.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
• v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

metier

• n. Alternative spelling of métier.

moderate

• adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
• adj. Mediocre.
• adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
• adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
• adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
• n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
• v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.

occupation

• n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
• n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
• n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

psychic

• n. A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance…
• n. A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
• n. (Gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused…
• adj. Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
• adj. Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.

sensitive

• adj. Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
• adj. Responsive to stimuli.
• adj. (of a person) Easily offended, upset or hurt.
• adj. (of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
• adj. (of an instrument) Accurate.
• n. One with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

spiritualist

• n. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character;…
• n. (philosophy) One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
• n. (spiritism) One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication…
• adj. Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.

state

• n. A polity.
• n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
• n. High social standing or circumstance.
• n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
• v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
• v. (transitive) To make known.
• adj. (obsolete) stately.

substance

• n. Physical matter; material.
• n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
• n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
• n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
• n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
• n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
• n. (theology) Hypostasis.

surround

• v. (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
• n. (Britain) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

surroundings

• n. plural of surrounding.
• n. the area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity;…
• n. (physics) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.

transmission

• n. The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.
• n. The fact of being transmitted.
• n. Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture or a disease; the sending of such a thing.
• n. (biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
• n. (automotive) An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft…
• n. (law) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy,…
• n. (medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to…