media

nounnounnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈmiː.di.ə//
United Kingdom//ˈmɛ.di.ə//
United States//ˈmi.di.ə//
//ˈmiɖ(ɪ)jɑ//

The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.

noun

1
The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
2
datedA 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
historicalSynonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L

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.

noun

1
Also a form of mediumplural of medium (only in certain senses)
The media have differed in their approaches to coverage of the scandal.
2
Also a form of mediumrareplural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)

Etymology

Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).

noun

1
The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.
2
The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.
[…] yet they are all wildly popular pieces of media, viewed by millions of Christians and non-Christians alike. Why? Because they are first and foremost masterful movies and TV shows. Their creators made something worth seeing and sharing.
3
The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
4
Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.

adjective

1
Variant of multimediaClipping of multimedia.
I have media files stored on an external hard drive.
Adjust media sound in multiple apps

Etymology

Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).

Forms

plural: medias, mediae

medallion · A large medal, usually decorative.meddle · To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.meddling · That meddles.

media · The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.

Media · A place in the United States: A township and village therein,…medic · Of or pertaining to medicines; medical.Medic · The Median language.

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