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单词 medium
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mediumadjective

uk/ˈmiː.di.əm/us/ˈmiː.di.əm/

medium adjective (MIDDLE)

B1 being in the middle between an upper and lower amount, size, degree, or value:

a girl of medium height
a medium-sized book

More examples

  • My hairdryer has three settings - high, medium and low.
  • I take a medium size in clothes.
  • He earns a medium amount of money.
  • Cook the sauce over a medium heat.
  • Chop one medium carrot.

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Medium-sized

  • average
  • M, m
  • middle
  • midsize
  • moderate

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Averages

medium adjective (MEAT)

(of meat) cooked so that it is no longer red in the middle:

Would you like your steak rare, medium, or well done?
Compare
rare
well done

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Preparing food using heat

  • bake
  • barbecue
  • baste
  • batch-bake
  • boil sth up
  • boiled
  • curry
  • flambé
  • flash-fry
  • fried
  • frizzled
  • fry
  • lightly
  • microwave
  • precook
  • preheat
  • render sth down
  • rendering
  • sauté
  • shallow-fry

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mediumnoun [ C ]

uk/ˈmiː.di.əm/us/ˈmiː.di.əm/

medium noun [ C ] (METHOD)

C2 plural media mediums a method or way of expressing something:

the broadcasting/print medium
They told the story through the medium of dance.

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Media in general

  • media
  • media event
  • organ
  • press
  • profile
  • publish
  • the Fourth Estate
  • the mass media
  • vehicle

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Ways of achieving things

medium noun [ C ] (PERSON)

plural mediums a person who says that they can receive messages from people who are dead

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People who perform magic or have paranormal abilities

  • alchemy
  • clairvoyant
  • conjurer
  • coven
  • enchantress
  • illusionist
  • mage
  • magician
  • mind reader
  • palmist
  • psychic
  • shaman
  • soothsayer
  • sorcerer
  • sorceress
  • spiritual healing
  • visionary
  • warlock
  • witch doctor
  • wizard

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medium noun [ C ] (SUBSTANCE)

a substance that something grows in, lives in, or moves through:

Compost is an excellent growing medium.

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Mixing and mixtures

  • be neither one thing nor the other idiom
  • blend
  • blend in/blend into sth
  • brew
  • cocktail
  • concoction
  • cross-fertilization
  • decoction
  • emulsion
  • impure
  • mashup
  • meld
  • mingle
  • mixture
  • neither
  • preparation
  • roll
  • rolled into one idiom
  • substance
  • synthesis

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