media

noun

1. The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
2. (dated)A voiced stop consonant.
3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
4. An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
5. (historical)Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
6. (form-of, plural)plural of medium (only in certain senses)

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

7. (form-of, nonstandard, plural, rare)plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)

   “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.”

8. (countable, uncountable)The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.

   “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.”

9. (countable, uncountable)The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.

   “Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.”

   “[…] yet they are all wildly popular pieces of media, viewed by millions of Christians and non-Christians alike. Why? Because they are first and foremost masterful movies and TV shows. Their creators made something worth seeing and sharing.”

10. (countable, uncountable, usually)The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

    “Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.”

11. (countable, uncountable)Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable)Clipping of multimedia.

   “I have media files stored on an external hard drive.”

   “Adjust media sound in multiple apps”

name

1. (historical)A geographic region and ancient satrapy of the Persian Empire in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes.
2. (historical)A possible ancient kingdom ruled by the Medes from approximately 700 to 550 BCE, whose extent and sometimes even existence is debated.
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