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media
/ˈmi.di.ə/
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What does media mean?
noun
- The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
- An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
More meanings (14)
noun
- plural of medium (only in certain senses)
- The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
- The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
- The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
- Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
- (dated) A voiced stop consonant.
- (historical) Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
- (rare) plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)
adjective
- Clipping of multimedia.
proper noun
- A township and village therein, in Henderson County, Illinois.
- A ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas.
- A borough, the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
- (historical) A geographic region and ancient satrapy of the Persian Empire in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes.
- (historical) A possible ancient kingdom ruled by the Medes from approximately 700 to 550 BCE, whose extent and sometimes even existence is debated.
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He himself laid siege to Phraata, a principal city of the king of Media, wherein were that king's wife and children.
Formal society begins as soon as you lock your doors, and only admit visitors through the media of bells and servants.
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And, therefore, their all hitting upon this is a striking fact in pneumatology, which we recommend to the attention of spiritual media generally.
We found a thin and anemic girl, not at all prepossessing in appearance, dull in expression, suffering from a chronic suppurating otitis media.
At present, whether the fault is in the cell proper, the conducting media, or the central center, we are unable to say.