intermediate — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

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

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   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.

Substantiv

1. Anything in an intermediate position.

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   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.

2. An intermediary.

3. An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.

   Synonyme

   mid-size

4. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

5. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product. Any such substance that is produced and sold to commercial customers (business-to-business sales) as an input to other chemical processes.

6. A kind of tyre with relatively light grooving, used for conditions between fully dry and fully wet.

   Beispiele

   Light rain was coming so he chose intermediate tyres.

Verb

1. To mediate, to be an intermediate.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

2. To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

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

Adjektiv

1. lying between two extremes in time or space or state

   Antonyme

   terminal

   Beispiele

   going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands

   intermediate stages in a process

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   intermediate stops on the route

   an intermediate range plane

2. around the middle of a scale of evaluation

   Synonyme

   averagemedium

   Beispiele

   an orange of average size

   intermediate capacity

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   medium bombers

Substantiv

1. a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

   Oberbegriffe

   chemicalchemical substance

Verb

1. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

   Synonyme

   intercedemediateliaisearbitrate

   Oberbegriffe

   negociatenegotiatetalk terms

   Beispiele

   He interceded in the family dispute

   He mediated a settlement