单词 | intermedium |
释义 | intermediumn. 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 This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1589 |
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