What does "media" mean?
The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
Media
/ˈmiː.di.ə/ adj, name, noun
adj, name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- Grammar: media is listed as adj, name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: art materials, art supplies, asset, audiovisual.
- Useful contrasts: private communication, sterile environment, tenuis.
- Usage evidence: The media got wind of a rumor about his engagement and came quickly.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- 2 plural of medium (only in certain senses) form-of, plural
- 3 The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 4 A voiced stop consonant. dated
- 5 plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”) form-of, nonstandard, plural, rare
"There is, again, “the writing medium,” the man or woman influenced seeming to lose control of the right arm, when the pen or pencil is taken;[…]. There is, finally, “the speaking medium,” the person influenced being lost in a swoon or trance, and then uttering strange and unaccountable sentiments and expressions. Moreover, it is now asserted as the teaching of these media, that the scenes of the Salem witchcraft, so called, were the attempts of the spirits in another world to make their presence known, and to convey communications to the living. […] Media, Persons of Nervous Organism. […] We should not disparage at all, we wish not to do so, the character of those who are generally the media. We allude not to the fact that they are generally young, and inexperienced, and females."
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- 6 The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published. countable, uncountable
"Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun."
- 7 One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
- 8 The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry. countable, uncountable, usually
"Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions."
- 9 An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- 10 Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material. countable, uncountable
- 11 Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L historical
Adjective
- 1 Clipping of multimedia. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
"I have media files stored on an external hard drive."
Proper Noun
- 1 A geographic region and ancient satrapy of the Persian Empire in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes. historical
- 2 A possible ancient kingdom ruled by the Medes from approximately 700 to 550 BCE, whose extent and sometimes even existence is debated. historical
- 3 A place in the United States:; A township and village therein, in Henderson County, Illinois.
- 4 A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas.
- 5 A place in the United States:; A borough, the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Synonyms
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Example
"The media got wind of a rumor about his engagement and came quickly."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "media"?
Common synonyms include: art materials, art supplies, asset, audiovisual, broadcast media, communication engineering.
How do you use "media" in a sentence?
The media got wind of a rumor about his engagement and came quickly.
How do you pronounce "media"?
Pronounced /ˈmiː.di.ə/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
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”).
Etymology 3
Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).
Etymology 4
Borrowed from Latin Mēdia, from Ancient Greek Μηδία (Mēdía), from Μῆδος (Mêdos), from *Mada (vocalization uncertain), the Old Median language self-designator signifying speakers of the Median language. Compare Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐎭 (Māda). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”) i.e. central kingdom, cognate with Sanskrit मध्य (mádhya).