Intermediate

/ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/ · adjective

Meaning

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range..

Definitions by Sense

1. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
2. Anything in an intermediate position.
3. An intermediary.
4. An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.
5. (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
6. (motor racing) A kind of tyre with relatively light grooving, used for conditions between fully dry and fully wet.
7. (intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.
8. (transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

Example Sentences

Then, being on his knees between my thighs, he drew up his ſhirt, and bared all his hairy thighs, and ſtiff ſtaring truncheon, red-topt, and rooted into a thicket of curls, which cover’d his belly to his 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.

Such was the station provided for the infrequent services of 1852, when suburban traffic was unheard of, and Hornsey, Colney Hatch & Southgate, Barnet, and Potters Bar were the only intermediate stations on the 17¾ miles between London and Hatfield.

The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.

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.

In Oklahoma, an intermediate license holder may not carry more than one non-family member in the vehicle unless accompanied in the front seat by a licensed driver over 21 years of age.

Light rain was coming so he chose intermediate tyres.

Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

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• more intermediate
• most intermediate
• intermediates
• intermediating
• intermediated

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