单词 | media |
释义 | media1/ˈmiːdɪə /noun 1 (the media) [treated as singular or plural] The main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet) regarded collectively: their demands were publicized by the media...
2 plural form of medium. UsageThe word media comes from the Latin plural of medium. The traditional view is that it should therefore be treated as a plural noun in all its senses in English and be used with a plural rather than a singular verb: the media have not followed the reports (rather than ‘has’). In practice, in the sense ‘television, radio, and the press collectively’, it behaves as a collective noun (like staff or clergy, for example), which means that it is now acceptable in standard English for it to take either a singular or a plural verb. The word is also increasingly used in the plural form medias, as if it had a conventional singular form media, especially when referring to different forms of new media, and in the sense ‘the material or form used by an artist’: there were great efforts made by the medias of the involved countries about 600 works in all genres and medias were submitted for review. Rhymesmedia2/ˈmiːdɪə /noun (plural mediae /ˈmiːdɪiː/) Anatomy An intermediate layer in the wall of a blood vessel or lymphatic vessel.This sheet was placed around a tubular support to produce the media of the vessel....
OriginLate 19th century: shortening of modern Latin tunica (or membrana) media 'middle sheath (or layer)'. Media3/ˈmiːdɪə /An ancient region of Asia to the south-west of the Caspian Sea, corresponding approximately to present-day Azerbaijan, NW Iran, and NE Iraq. Originally inhabited by the Medes, the region was conquered in 550 bc by Cyrus the Great of Persia. |
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