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单词 intermedium
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intermediumn.

/ɪntəˈmiːdɪəm/
Forms: Plural intermedia, intermediums. Also 1600s enter-.
Etymology: < Latin intermedium, neuter of intermedius , < inter between + medius mid, middle: compare medium n. and adj.
1. Something intermediate in position; an intervening space, interval of space. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent
meana1400
moyen1483
umpire1605
intermedium1611
intermediate1650
middle1665
between-lier1674
borderland1821
border-ground1871
border-world1878
grey zone1900
twilight zone1909
grey area1935
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Entredeux, an intermedium, or interual.
1804 Watt in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 94 310 When no such intermedium occurred, there was invariably a division in the middle of the vein.
2.
a. Something intermediate in time; an intervening action or performance (? obsolete); †esp. one between the parts or acts of a play, an interlude.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval > something happening in
intermedium1589
interim1598
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > interlude
intermedium1589
jiga1592
intermean1599
garlic1614
entry1631
interlude1660
by-clap1661
divertisement1667
divertissementc1728
interact1750
intermezzo1771
intermede1820
entr'acte1841
metalogue1956
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. Av Silenus, when nodding on his Asse..made his moist nosecloth, the pausing intermedium, twixt euerie nappe.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Intermedio,..Intermedium, the musike that is, or shewes that are betweene the acts of a play.
1658 J. Burbury tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Christina Queen of Swedland 456 Musical Playes..with rare changes of scenes, intermediums of dances, and most exquisite musick.
1838 T. Chalmers Wks. XIII. 256 A long intermedium of many transitions and arguments.
b. An intervening time, interval of time. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval
waya1300
distancec1330
interstition1390
spacea1400
pastimea1513
vacance1533
intermission?1566
vacation1567
intervallum1574
interim1579
between-timea1586
wem1599
parenthesis1600
intermedium1611
betweena1616
fore-while?1615
interpolation1615
vacancya1616
interval1616
interstitium1624
slatcha1625
interspace1629
intermissa1633
between-spacea1641
interregnum1659
intervalea1661
interlapse1666
interlude1751
in-between1815
lapse1817
intermezzo1851
meanwhile1872
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Entrecesse, sans, without intermission, intermedium, rest, pause.
1617 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 413 Sudden mutations, without any intermedium.
1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 427 The French and Indians..repeating the stroke..sending down parties in the intermedium to discover our motions.
3.
a. An intermediate agent, intermediary, medium; esp. in earlier Chemistry and Physics, a substance serving as a means of some natural action or process; also abstract intermediate agency, mediation (of).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means
middlec1230
medium1585
intermedium1660
intermede1791
intermediary1859
1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. iii. i. 307 Between God and the Conscience of man there is no intermedium.
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 28 Growing immediately out of the bole or body of the Tree, and..admitting not so much as the intermedium or usherage of a twig.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 71 Oils [are] insoluble in water, without some proper intermedium.
1791 W. Cowper Let. 16 Nov. (1982) III. 586 The obliging request of a Lady, and of a Lady who employed you as her Intermedium.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 726 Uniting the silver by the intermedia of slips of rolled tin.
1839 John Bull 18 Aug. in Spirit Metrop. Conservative Press (1840) II. 302 Through the intermedium of one person.
1884 American 7 218 The pabulum for the realization of this knowledge can only be afforded through the intermedium of books.
b. With mixture of sense 1: An intervening medium serving to transmit energy through space.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency
mediationc1425
interventure1578
intermise1612
refraction1614
intercedence1640
intervent1657
intervention1665
intermediacy1713
intermedium1805
intermediary1859
mediumship1871
1805 Edinb. Rev. 7 118 The hypothesis of an æther or other invisible intermedium.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 23 The communication of an impulse to such a distance, by any solid intermedium we are acquainted with, would require, not moments, but whole years.
1846 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces 24 A molecular action of the gas or intermedium, through or across which they are transmitted.
4. Comparative Anatomy. [sc. os.] A bone of the carpus, situated between the ulnare and radiale (hence also called os centrale), or the corresponding bone of the tarsus between the tibiale and fibulare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of hand or foot > bones of foot > [noun]
navicular?a1425
metatarsus?c1425
heel bone1516
astragalus?1541
bonket1552
cube-bone1615
die-bone1634
os calcis1634
foot bone1658
tarsus1676
pterna1684
talus1684
navicular bone1696
astragal1728
calcaneum1728
cuboid bone1829
cuboid1836
metatarsal1837
metapodium1844
tarso-metatarsal1851
arch1858
intermedium1878
tarsal1881
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm > bones of wrist
navicular?a1425
navicular bone?a1425
wrist-bone1552
carpus1686
scaphoid bone1741
pisiform bone1753
pisiform1808
trapezoid1828
trapezium1840
unciform1840
scaphoid1846
carpal1854
lunar1854
centrale1870
radiale1870
intermedium1878
lunar bone1887
capitate1889
triquetral bone1913
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 488 An intermedium is united with a tibiale to form an astragalus.
1887 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
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