| median | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. median, median value | the value below which 50% of the cases fall. |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| ~ average, norm | a statistic describing the location of a distribution.; "it set the norm for American homes" |
| adj. | 2. average, median | relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values).; "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| ~ normal | conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal.; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events" |
| adj. | 3. medial, median | dividing an animal into right and left halves. |
| ~ mesial | being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body. |
| adj. | 4. medial, median | relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle. |
| ~ central | in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area.; "a central position" |
| medium | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. medium | a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information. |
| ~ instrumentation, instrumentality | an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end. |
| ~ vehicle | a medium for the expression or achievement of something.; "his editorials provided a vehicle for his political views"; "a congregation is a vehicle of group identity"; "the play was just a vehicle to display her talents" |
| ~ paper | a medium for written communication.; "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd" |
| ~ cinema, celluloid, film | a medium that disseminates moving pictures.; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" |
| ~ print media | a medium that disseminates printed matter. |
| ~ data-storage medium, storage medium | a medium for storing information. |
| ~ telecom, telecommunication | (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically. |
| ~ album, record album | one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc. |
| n. (location) | 2. medium | the surrounding environment.; "fish require an aqueous medium" |
| ~ environs, surround, environment, surroundings | the area in which something exists or lives.; "the country--the flat agricultural surround" |
| n. (communication) | 3. medium | an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication. |
| ~ communicating, communication | the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information.; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow" |
| ~ aether, ether | a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves. |
| ~ airwave, air | medium for radio and television broadcasting.; "the program was on the air from 9 til midnight"; "the president used the airwaves to take his message to the people" |
| ~ ban, censor | forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper). |
| n. (substance) | 4. culture medium, medium | (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms. |
| ~ food, nutrient | any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue. |
| ~ bacteriology | the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease. |
| ~ agar, nutrient agar | any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent. |
| n. (substance) | 5. medium | a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter. |
| ~ liquid | a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure. |
| ~ magilp, megilp | a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine. |
| n. (substance) | 6. medium | (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed. |
| ~ substance | the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists.; "DNA is the substance of our genes" |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ contrast material, contrast medium | a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills. |
| n. (substance) | 7. medium | an intervening substance through which something is achieved.; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent" |
| ~ substance | the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists.; "DNA is the substance of our genes" |
| ~ dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent | a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances.; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution" |
| n. (state) | 8. medium | a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position.; "a happy medium" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| n. (person) | 9. medium, sensitive, spiritualist | someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead.; "he consulted several mediums" |
| ~ psychic | a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception. |
| n. (communication) | 10. mass medium, medium | (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public. |
| ~ transmission | communication by means of transmitted signals. |
| ~ broadcast medium, broadcasting | a medium that disseminates via telecommunications. |
| n. (act) | 11. medium, metier | an occupation for which you are especially well suited.; "in law he found his true metier" |
| ~ job, line of work, occupation, business, line | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.; "he's not in my line of business" |
| adj. | 12. average, intermediate, medium | around the middle of a scale of evaluation.; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" |
| ~ moderate | being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme.; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart" |
| adj. | 13. medium | (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside. |
| ~ cooked | having been prepared for eating by the application of heat. |
| mid | | |
| adj. | 1. mid | used in combination to denote the middle.; "midmorning"; "midsummer"; "in mid-1958"; "a mid-June wedding" |
| ~ middle | between an earlier and a later period of time.; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties" |
| middle | | |
| n. (location) | 1. center, centre, eye, heart, middle | an area that is approximately central within some larger region.; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm" |
| ~ area, country | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).; "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" |
| ~ center stage, centre stage | the central area on a theater stage. |
| ~ central city, city center, city centre | the central part of a city. |
| ~ storm center, storm centre | the central area or place of lowest barometric pressure within a storm. |
| ~ financial center | the part of a city where financial institutions are centered. |
| ~ hub | a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve.; "the playground is the hub of parental supervision"; "the airport is the economic hub of the area" |
| ~ inner city | the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city. |
| ~ medical center | the part of a city where medical facilities are centered. |
| ~ midfield | (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse). |
| ~ seat | a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised). |
| ~ city of london, the city | the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London. |
| ~ midstream | the middle of a stream. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. middle | an intermediate part or section.; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end" |
| ~ division, section, part | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" |
| n. (body) | 3. middle, midriff, midsection | the middle area of the human torso (usually in front).; "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" |
| ~ region, area | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve.; "in the abdominal region" |
| ~ torso, trunk, body | the body excluding the head and neck and limbs.; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" |
| n. (time) | 4. middle | time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period.; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April" |
| ~ point in time, point | an instant of time.; "at that point I had to leave" |
| ~ deep | the central and most intense or profound part.; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter" |
| v. (contact) | 5. middle | put in the middle. |
| ~ lay, place, put, set, position, pose | put into a certain place or abstract location.; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
| adj. | 6. in-between, mediate, middle | being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series.; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line" |
| ~ intermediate | lying between two extremes in time or space or state.; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate range plane" |
| adj. | 7. center, halfway, middle, midway | equally distant from the extremes. |
| ~ central | in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area.; "a central position" |
| adj. | 8. middle | of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages.; "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic" |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| adj. | 9. middle | between an earlier and a later period of time.; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties" |
| ~ intervening | occurring or falling between events or points in time.; "so much had happened during the intervening years" |
| ~ mid | used in combination to denote the middle.; "midmorning"; "midsummer"; "in mid-1958"; "a mid-June wedding" |
| midway | | |
| n. (location) | 1. midway | the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located. |
| ~ fair, funfair, carnival | a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.. |
| ~ parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel | an extended area of land. |
| n. (act) | 2. battle of midway, midway | naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands. |
| ~ naval battle | a pitched battle between naval fleets. |
| ~ second world war, world war 2, world war ii | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945. |
| ~ midway islands | an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base. |
| adv. | 3. halfway, midway | at half the distance; at the middle.; "he was halfway down the ladder when he fell" |
| tunga | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. genus tunga, tunga | a genus of Siphonaptera. |
| ~ arthropod genus | a genus of arthropods. |
| ~ order siphonaptera, siphonaptera | fleas. |
| ~ chigger, chigoe, chigoe flea, tunga penetrans | small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans. |
| half | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. half, one-half | one of two equal parts of a divisible whole.; "half a loaf"; "half an hour"; "a century and one half" |
| ~ common fraction, simple fraction | the quotient of two integers. |
| ~ fifty percent | a half expressed as a percentage. |
| ~ mediety, moiety | one of two (approximately) equal parts. |
| n. (time) | 2. half | one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval. |
| ~ football, football game | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal. |
| ~ basketball, basketball game, hoops | a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop. |
| ~ division, section, part | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" |
| ~ period of play, playing period, play | (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds.; "rain stopped play in the 4th inning" |
| ~ first half | the first of two halves of play. |
| ~ last half, second half | the second of two halves of play. |
| adj. | 3. half | consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.; "a half chicken"; "lasted a half hour" |
| ~ fractional | constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety.; "a fractional share of the vote"; "a partial dose" |
| adj. | 4. half | partial.; "gave me a half smile"; "he did only a half job" |
| ~ incomplete, uncomplete | not complete or total; not completed.; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" |
| adj. | 5. half | (of siblings) related through one parent only.; "a half brother"; "half sister" |
| adv. | 6. half | partially or to the extent of a half.; "he was half hidden by the bushes" |
| middle | | |
| tunga | | |
| emerge | | |
| v. (change) | 1. emerge | come out into view, as from concealment.; "Suddenly, the proprietor emerged from his office" |
| ~ appear | come into sight or view.; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" |
| ~ burst | emerge suddenly.; "The sun burst into view" |
| ~ shell | fall out of the pod or husk.; "The corn shelled" |
| v. (change) | 2. come forth, come out, egress, emerge, go forth, issue | come out of.; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" |
| ~ pop out | come out suddenly or forcefully.; "you stick a bill in the vending machine and the change pops out" |
| ~ radiate | issue or emerge in rays or waves.; "Heat radiated from the metal box" |
| ~ leak | enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure.; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "Gas leaked into the basement" |
| ~ escape | issue or leak, as from a small opening.; "Gas escaped into the bedroom" |
| ~ fall | come out; issue.; "silly phrases fell from her mouth" |
| ~ debouch | pass out or emerge; especially of rivers.; "The tributary debouched into the big river" |
| ~ fall out, come out | come off.; "His hair and teeth fell out" |
| v. (change) | 3. emerge | become known or apparent.; "Some nice results emerged from the study" |
| ~ appear | come into sight or view.; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" |
| v. (motion) | 4. emerge | come up to the surface of or rise.; "He felt new emotions emerge" |
| ~ rise up, surface, come up, rise | come to the surface. |
| v. (stative) | 5. come forth, emerge | happen or occur as a result of something. |
| ~ arise, originate, spring up, uprise, develop, grow, rise | come into existence; take on form or shape.; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" |
| ~ break | come forth or begin from a state of latency.; "The first winter storm broke over New York" |
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