| mediate | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate | act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" |
| ~ negotiate, talk terms, negociate | discuss the terms of an arrangement.; "They negotiated the sale of the house" |
| v. (stative) | 2. mediate | occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others.; "mediate between the old and the new" |
| ~ lie | be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position. |
| adj. | 3. mediate | acting through or dependent on an intervening agency.; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact" |
| ~ indirect | having intervening factors or persons or influences.; "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause" |
| ~ mediated | acting or brought about through an intervening agency.; "the mediated settlement brought satisfaction to both sides" |
| adj. | 4. 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" |
| 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 | | |
| 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. 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. | 7. 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. | 8. 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" |
| 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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