Medium vs Big - What's the difference?
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The nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
The material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
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(senseid) A format for communicating or presenting information.
The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
A nutrient solution for the growth of cells ''in vitro .
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The means or channel by which an aim is achieved.
A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
A tool used for painting or drawing.
Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
A middle place or degree.
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(dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
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(logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
(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.
Of great size, large.
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*:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line,, with their court of farm and church and clustered village, in dignified seclusion.
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Popular.
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(lb) Adult.
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*:By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]
(lb) Fat.
(lb) Important or significant.
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*:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
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(lb) Mature, conscientious, principled.
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(lb) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
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Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
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*:[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
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In a loud manner.
In a boasting manner.
In a large amount or to a large extent.
On a large scale, expansively
Hard.
An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
(as plural) The big leagues, big time.
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To praise or recommend
to inhabit; occupy
to locate one's self
to build; erect; fashion
to dwell; have a dwelling
One or more kinds of barley, especially (six-rowed barley).
As nouns the difference between medium and big
is that medium is medium while big is a biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants.medium
English
(wikipedia medium)Noun
(en-noun)- Whether any other liquors, being made mediums , cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
- I must bring together / All these extremes; and must remove all mediums .
- In some instances one can take advantage of differential carbohydrate fermentation capabilities of microorganisms by incorporating one or more carbohydrates in the medium' along with a suitable pH indicator. Such '''media''' are called differential ' media (e.g., eosin methylene blue or MacConkey agar) and are commonly used to isolate enteric bacilli.
- Acrylics, oils, charcoal and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.
- a happy medium
- The just medium lies between pride and abjection.
- a medium of six years of war, and six years of peace
Derived terms
* (sense) differential mediumAdjective
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* * English nouns with irregular plurals English words affected by prescriptivism ----big
English
Etymology 1
From a northern (etyl) dialectal term (m), .Adjective
(bigger)The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
Norwich 3-3 Blackburn, passage=It proved a big miss as Hoilett produced a sublime finish into the top corner of the net from 20 yards after evading a couple of challenges in first-half stoppage time.}}
Synonyms
* (of a great size) ample, huge, large, sizeable, stoor, jumbo, massive * (adult) adult, fully grown, grown up * See alsoAntonyms
* (of a great size) little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute * (adult) little, youngDerived terms
* Big Apple * big-ass * big baby * big band * Big Bang * big bath * big beat * Big Ben * Big Bertha * big blind * big bluestem * Big Board * big-boned * big box * big boy/big boys * big break * big brother * Big Brother * big bucks * big business * big C * big cat * big cheese * Big Crunch * Big D * big daddy * big deal * Big Dipper * Big Easy * big enchilada * big end * big fat/big-fat/big phat * big figure * big fish * big fly * Big Four * big game * biggie, no biggie * big girl's blouse * big government * big gun * big H/Big H * big hair * big hand * big head/big-head * big-headed * big-hearted * big house * big idea * big if * big iron * Big Island * big kid * big labor * big-league * big lick * big lie * big lug * big kahuna * Big Mac * big money * big mouth * Big Muddy * big name / big-name * bigness * big O * big O notation * big old/big ole * big one/the big one * big pharma * big picture * Big Q * big rig * Big Rip * big science * big screen * big shagbank * big shot * big shoulder * big six/the big six * Big Six * big sleep * big slick * Big Smoke * big spender * big spring * big stick * Big Sur * big talk * big tent * Big Three * big-ticket * big time/big-time/bigtime * big toe * big top/big-top * big tree * Big Uglies * big up * big wheel * big whoop * big wig/big-wig/bigwig * big-wigged * big wow * great big * hit it big * make it big * /Mr Big/Mister Big * the bigs * too big for one's boots * too big to failAdverb
(bigger)- He's always talking big , but he never delivers.
- He won big betting on the croquet championship.
- You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
- He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.