media.
The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
Meaning & usage
The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
A voiced stop consonant.
One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.
The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.
The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.
The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
Where this word comes from
Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).
plural of medium (only in certain senses)
The media have differed in their approaches to coverage of the scandal.
plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)
Where this word comes from
Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).
Clipping of multimedia.
I have media files stored on an external hard drive.
Adjust media sound in multiple apps
Where this word comes from
Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).
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