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medium

A medium amount is an amount that is not small and not large, but in the middle. Would you like a small, medium or large drink?

medium

A medium is stuff that something moves through. Light can go through different media: air, water, glass. Sound waves slow down when they go through this kind of medium. A medium is a person who hears ideas that come from people who are dead. We all closed our eyes, and the medium said "I hear your father speaking." I don't believe those mediums can really hear anything.

medium

a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information (= average, intermediate) around the middle of a scale of evaluation an orange of average size intermediate capacity medium bombers the surrounding environment fish require an aqueous medium an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication (= culture medium) (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter an intervening substance through which something is achieved the dissolving medium is called a solvent a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position a happy medium someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead he consulted several mediums (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside (= metier) an occupation for which you are especially well suited in law he found his true metier

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Simple sentences

One large fries and two medium cokes.
Television is a very important medium through which to provide information.
I like my steak cooked medium well.
We have large, medium, and small. What size do you want?
Television is obsolete as a medium in any case.
Sear on each side over medium heat for 4 - 5 minutes.
Could I have three steaks please: one rare, one medium rare and one well done, but not burnt?
The sun is a medium-sized star.
Humans accomplish amazing things, because they can exchange informations about their knowledge and intentions via the medium of language.
One of my suitcases is large, and the other one is medium.
A large or medium-sized one?
I like my steak medium rare.
Tom wants a medium-size dog.

Movie subtitles

That probably isn't quite as good as water, but at least it's a medium.
Look for dried red fruits, a medium body, and a bright, mouthwatering acidity.
And two fried eggs, two poached eggs. two scrambled eggs, and two medium-boiled eggs.
Rare, medium, well-done, and overdone.
Well, medium rare will do. Be sure and invite illumining people. I'd hate for him to be disappointed.
Hey, Pearl, medium-rare on my steak and not much butter on my potatoes.
I wanted to make you something outstanding. something you could be proud of, something that would realize the potentialities of film. as the sociological and artistic medium that it is.
Film's the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
Medium.
Medium height, brown hair, kindly, unemotional and not delicate at all.
With this medium, it might be possible without surgery to reshape the cranial cavity and thus eliminate the pressure.
Two chops, medium and rare.
Steak, medium.
Geiger's in his early forties medium height fattish soft all over, Charlie Chan mustache well-dressed wears a black hat affects a knowledge of antiques and hasn't any and I think his left eye is glass.
Conduct: medium.
She was a medium. medium-built sort of a girl with a medium face.
They're medium height.
We've been running medium sizes.
He spoke through a medium.
We know that Lydia is a conduit for Peter's intentions, but we don't know if it's Lydia being the medium herself or if it's Peter imposing the powers through her.
There are a lot of jobs you can handle. Hey, Pearl, medium-rare on my steak and not much butter on my potatoes.
Don't you like your steak medium?
Steak medium and plenty of blonde nursing.
Your friend doesn't need a lawyer, she needs a medium.
Geiger's in his early 40s medium height fattish soft all over, Charlie Chan mustache well-dressed wears a black hat affects a knowledge of antiques and hasn't any and I think his left eye is glass.
Appearance: Tall, medium build, black hair.
Well, uh, medium height.
She's medium height, red hair, very pretty hair dressed rather peculiarly.
Here's a medium-sized fir, Mrs. Scott.

News and current affairs

Borrowing costs are rising for highly indebted sovereigns, credit rationing is undermining small and medium-size companies, and falling commodity prices are reducing exporting countries' income.
True, there is no inflation problem in the short run, but the ECB's monetary policy focuses on the medium term.
True, the US political system seems stymied in coming up with a plan to stabilize medium-term budget deficits.
A systemic crisis that simultaneously hits a large number of medium-sized banks would put just as much pressure on governments to bail out the system as would a crisis that hits a couple of large banks.
But it would take a medium-sized political miracle for these hopes not to be disappointed, and such a miracle will not happen - whoever is elected.
Little has been done to deconstruct structural complexity, let alone win sufficient public support for a medium-term vision, a credible implementation strategy, and a set of measures that is adequate to the task at hand.
But lower short-term interest rates have led to higher medium-term interest rates, which are more relevant for the mortgage market, perhaps because of increasing worries about inflationary pressures.
Even this limited version would constitute progress; most of the gains arise from removing the red tape that complicates cross-border establishment of small and medium-size service enterprises and limits competition in broad sectors of the economy.
On the other hand, foreign banks were always falling short in assuring an adequate supply of credit to small and medium sized Argentine firms.
For a while this created a seemingly more stable banking system, but that system failed to lend to small and medium sized firms.
Obama will need to put forward a medium-term fiscal plan that restores government finances.
If social tensions rise, China's government is likely to respond with greater repression, which will bode ill both for its relations with the West and for its medium-term political stability.
In the 1980's there was profound disagreement and controversy over President Ronald Reagan's decision to deploy medium-range missiles in Europe.
High investment may cause economic overheating and increase the price of capital goods in the medium term, eventually triggering inflation.
Most economic research suggests that gold prices are very difficult to predict over the short to medium term, with the odds of gains and losses being roughly in balance.
In the medium term, once growth revives, debt can be paid down and the financial sector curbed so that it does not inflict another crisis on the world.
Two problems need to be addressed: the credibility of Greece's fiscal stabilization program, and how to cover the country's medium-term financing gap.
Serious medium-term budget reforms are needed to deal with the legacy of repeated congressional failures.
In such an environment, long run equilibrium rate models are pretty useless as guides to short or even medium term exchange rate developments.
In the short and medium term, China's rule in Xinjiang and Tibet seems secure: the international community will not challenge a Security Council member state.
Neither Europe nor the United States has put in place credible medium-term plans to stabilize their fiscal positions.
American journalism's business model is collapsing; the people who should be defending Assange are facing salary cuts or unemployment, owing in large part to the medium that he represents.
To this day, therefore, the risk remains that the number of nuclear powers will increase, particularly given small and medium powers' hope to enhance their prestige and position in regional conflicts.
But small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) - the majority of firms in both Latin America and Europe - find it difficult to trade and invest at international level, in part because of high transaction and information costs.
There need to be increased funds available to support small and medium-size enterprises - the main source of job creation in all economies - which is especially important, given that credit contraction by banks hits these enterprises especially hard.
The Union for the Mediterranean, launched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, must be revitalized and re-directed towards development projects ranging from highways and ports to the promotion of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).

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