What is "intermediate" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does intermediate mean in English? Meaning of intermediate definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "intermediate" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "intermediate": a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

Noun

  • Meaning: a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained
  • Synonyms: intermediate
  • Hypernyms: chemical chemical substance
  • Pronunciation in US: enPR

    Pronunciation in UK: IPA(key)

    Meaning of "intermediate": act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

    Verb

  • Meaning: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
  • Example: He interceded in the family dispute He mediated a settlement
  • Synonyms: arbitrate intercede intermediate liaise mediate
  • Hypernyms: negociate negotiate talk terms
  • Pronunciation in US: enPR

    Pronunciation in UK: IPA(key)

    Meaning of "intermediate": lying between two extremes in time or space or state

    Adjective

  • Meaning: lying between two extremes in time or space or state
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: intermediate
  • Antonyms: terminal
  • Similar: antepenultimate gray grey halfway in-between junior mediate middle next-to-last penultimate second-year sophomore subterminal third-year
  • Pronunciation in US: enPR

    Pronunciation in UK: IPA(key)

    Meaning of "intermediate": around the middle of a scale of evaluation

    Adjective

  • Meaning: around the middle of a scale of evaluation
  • Example: an orange of average size intermediate capacity medium bombers
  • Synonyms: average intermediate medium
  • Similar: moderate
  • Pronunciation in US: enPR

    Pronunciation in UK: IPA(key)

  • Adjective: Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range. 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3 which covered his belly to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both sides. 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:  The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3 which covered his belly to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both sides.2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:  The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
  • Synonyms:

    intervening, medium, central, center, fair, average, median, middling, standard, neutral, common, midway, moderate, intermediary, mean, between, halfway, indifferent, medial, mediocre, mid, so-so, transitional, interposed, compromising,

    Antonyms:

    exterior, peripheral, biased, abnormal, extraordinary, unusual, extreme, outside, partial, prejudiced, unreasonable, exceptional, noble, end,

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