media

Meaning

Noun

1. The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
2. (dated) A voiced stop consonant.
3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
4. An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
5. (historical) Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L

Adj

Clipping of multimedia.

medium

• Noun
• Adj
• Adv

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Opposite of

tenuis

Synonyms

medium

press

mass media

mass communication

tunica media

information

journalists

cheek pattern

centre form

tunica media vasorum

mean of communication

publishing

sonant

tool

mesolamella

Translations

Medien

média

mídia

medios

medios de comunicación

médias

medio

Medium

mitjà

mezzi di comunicazione

media

moyen

Diskette

presse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmiː.di.ə/

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.

Sentences

The proposal that dogs can detect cancer attracted widespread coverage in the general media .

The " Transcript " is also the oldest media outlet of the Denver metropolitan area .