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Intermediate   /ˌɪntərmˈidiɪt/  /ˌɪnərmˈidiɪt/   Listen
Intermediate

adjective
1.
Lying between two extremes in time or space or state.  "Intermediate stages in a process" , "Intermediate stops on the route" , "An intermediate range plane"  Antonym: terminal.
2.
Around the middle of a scale of evaluation.  Synonyms: average, medium.  "Intermediate capacity" , "Medium bombers"
verb
1.
Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.  Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, liaise, mediate.  "He mediated a settlement"
noun
1.
A substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained.



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"Intermediate" Quotes from Famous Books



... successful years of college bring an Intermediate Arts diploma; the student may then look forward to another two ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... to the principal persons, however serious or distressful through its intermediate incidents, in their opinion constituted a comedy. This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us, and plays were written, which, by changing the catastrophe, were tragedies to-day ...
— Preface to Shakespeare • Samuel Johnson
... The hair on the under part of the body is lighter in colour and softer than that on the top. The skin on the belly accords with the colour of dog. COLOUR—The colour is pepper or mustard. The pepper ranges from a dark bluish black to a light silver grey, the intermediate shades being preferred, the body colour coming well down the shoulder and hips, gradually merging into the leg colour. The mustards vary from a reddish brown to a pale fawn, the head being a creamy white, the legs and feet ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton
... bacteria as probably representing "the survival of a primordial stage of life chemistry." Thus a "primitive feeder," the bacterium Nitrosomonas, "for combustion ... takes in oxygen directly through the intermediate action of iron, phosphorus or manganese, each of the single cells being a powerful little chemical laboratory which contains oxidising catalysers, the activity of which is accelerated by the presence ...
— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
... were great or small. So from the very first my idea was that there were only two classes—one class quite perfect and pure as angels, the other black sheep, and altogether unspeakable. There was no transition, no intermediate links, no shading of light and dark. A man was either black or white, and this rigid rule applied not only to moral character, but intellectual excellence also was measured by the same standard. A work of art was either superlatively beautiful, or it was contemptible. A man of ...
— My Autobiography - A Fragment • F. Max Mueller


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