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Smokey vs Media - What's the difference?

smokey | media |

As an adjective smokey

is .

As a verb media is

.

smokey

English

Adjective

(head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1888, author=Henry Murger, title=Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=One day Rodolphe, who had been jugged for some slight choreographic extravagances, stumbled upon an uncle of his, one Monetti, a stove maker and smokey chimney doctor, and sargeant of the National Guard, whom he had not seen for an age. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2005, date=June 10, author=Liz Armstrong, title=Summertime, and the Pleasures Are Guilty, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The kind who craves an "alternative to the smokey bar scene," says the studio's Web site, in the form of an "invigorating candlelight yoga class accompanied by great live music." }}

    media

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (mediae)
  • (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  • (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.
  • (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
    • Usage notes
    Not to be confused with medium.
    Derived terms
    * tunica media * medial
    Synonyms
    *(vein of insect wing) M
    Antonyms
    * (voiced stop) (l)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • 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.
  • The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
    • Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
    Derived terms
    * media darling * media event (pos n) * mediagenic * mediascape (pos n) * multimedia * mass media * mainstream media * media circus * media whore

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