You can make 35 words from medium according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Definitions and meaning of medium
medium
Etymology
Borrowed from Latinmedium, neuter of medius(“middle”), from Proto-Italic*meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos(“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, andmediate.
Pronunciation
enPR: mē'diəm, IPA(key): /ˈmiː.di.əm/
Rhymes: -iːdiəm
Noun
medium (pluralmediaormediums)
The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
The materials or empty space through which signals, waves, or forces pass.
1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie, London: William Lee, III. Century, p. 60,[1]
Whether any other Liquours, being made Mediums, cause a Diuersity of Sound from Water, it may be tried:
A format for communicating or presenting information.
(microbiology) A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro.
(biology, horticulture etc.) A substance, structure, or environment in which living organisms subsist, grow or are cultured.
A means, channel, agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieved.
(engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
(countable, plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
(painting) A means of expression, in the arts, such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc).
Acrylics, oils, charcoal, and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.
(countable, logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
(countable, spiritualism, plural mediums) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
(countable) A middle place or degree.
(countable, dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
Anything of a middle rank or position.
Derived terms
(material or substance):circumgalactic medium, interstellar medium, intergalactic medium, warm-hot intergalactic medium, warm ionized medium, contrast medium
(format for communicating or presenting information):mass medium, storage medium, transmission medium, cool medium, hot medium, English-medium, social medium
(means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved):medium of exchange, medium of instruction, circulating medium
(person claiming to convey information from the spirit world):mediumistic, mediumism, mediumship
(middle place or degree):happy medium, strike a medium
Translations
Noun
medium (countable and uncountable, pluralmediums)(nominalized)
(uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink)One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
Synonym:M
(countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
(countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
(countable, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
Translations
Adjective
medium (not comparable)
(obsolete) Arithmetically average.
Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
(especially clothing, food or drink) That is medium (the manufactured size).
Synonyms
See also Thesaurus:intermediate
Derived terms
Related terms
mean
mediate
mediation
mediator
median
mediocre
mediocrity
Translations
Adverb
medium (not comparable)
To a medium extent.
Synonyms
mediumly
References
“medium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“medium”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
edimmu
Danish
Etymology
From Latinmedium.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /meːdiɔm/, [ˈmeːˀd̥jɔm]
Noun
medium or medien (singular definitemediet, plural indefinitemedier)
medium
Inflection
Adjective
medium (neutermedium, plural and definite singular attributivemedium)
medium
Further reading
medium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latinmedium.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈmeːdiʏm/
Noun
mediumn (pluralmedia, diminutivemediumpjen)
means, system or instrument for fulfilling an end
(physics)medium which a wave or force traverses
2009, Douglas C. Giancoli, Natuurkunde. Deel 2: Elektriciteit, magnetism, optica en moderne fysica, (tr. by Marianne Kerkhof & Louis Rijk Vertaling, red. by Luc van Hoorebeeke & Jan Rykebusch), Pearson (4th edition), 1100.
(grammar)middle voice
(communication, media) means of communication, media outlet
(communication) data medium, something that contains data
channeler, someone who claims to access the dead
Derived terms
geluidsmedium
lichtmedium
massamedium
mediopassief
taalmedium
Descendants
→ Indonesian: medium
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Englishmedium, from Latinmedium.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈmidiʏm/
Noun
mediumn (pluralmediums)
something of medium size
Adjective
medium (not comparable)
of medium size
(of meat)medium rare
Inflection
Synonyms
(medium rare):halfgaar
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutchmedium, from Latinmedium.
Semantic loan from Englishmedium for a measurement intermediate between extremes.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [meˈdiʊm]
Hyphenation: mé‧di‧um
Noun
mediumormédium
medium,
anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes.
the means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
(physics) the materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
(biology) a nutrient solution for the growth.
(rare)media
Alternative forms
media
Further reading
“medium” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
“medium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“medium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
medium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.