单词 | intermede |
释义 | intermeden.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means middlec1230 medium1585 intermedium1660 intermede1791 intermediary1859 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. ii. 28 The title Mordant is applied to those substances which serve as intermedes between the colouring particles and the stuff to be dyed, either for the purpose of facilitating or of modifying their combination. 1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 225 The electrical fluid..is made to leap from one conducting body to another, through a short space, without any sensible intermede, or through a rare transparent fluid. 1796 G. Pearson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 438 Copper may be united to steel without the intermede of any other metal. 2. An intermediate performance, interlude: = intermedium n. 2. Now current only in alien form intermède /æ̃tɛrmɛd/. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > interlude intermedium1589 jiga1592 intermean1599 garlic1614 entry1631 interlude1660 by-clap1661 divertisement1667 divertissementc1728 interact1750 intermezzo1771 intermede1820 entr'acte1841 metalogue1956 1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 247 A short intermede relieves the time, while the two disputants are absent fetching their oracles. 1887 Gentleman's Mag. June 540 The singularly appropriate intermède arranged by Beaumarchais for performance between the acts of his ‘Eugenie’. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 606/2 The inclusion between the first and second acts of an intermède of song and dance. 1970 Oxf. Compan. Music (ed. 10) 517/2 It was as intermezzo or intermède that the comic opera grew up. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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