Media

Quick meaning: Media is a noun meaning (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.

Meaning

(anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.

More Meanings

1. (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.
2. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
3. (zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
4. plural of medium (only in certain senses)
5. (often treated as uncountable) The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
6. (historical) Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
7. (rare, nonstandard) plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)

Example Sentences

The media have differed in their approaches to coverage of the scandal.

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.

At a private circle, one evening in the early part of last week, whereof the two media of whom I spoke in my last formed a part, we were directed, through the raps, to place a guitar under the table. […] At a subsequent meeting of the same persons, held at the house of Mr. B., the father of Miss B., the medium, these musical performances were all repeated, with the addition of some extra performances with a small hand-bell, which the Spirit called for.

Word Forms

• medias
• mediae

Synonyms for media

Depending on context, synonyms include M, cuarto.

Antonyms for media

Common opposites include tenuis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include median, braces, substrates, tape, rush, environment.

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