- a way of communicating information, etc. to people
- the medium of radio/television
- electronic/audiovisual media
- medium of something The internet is the modern medium of communication.
- medium for doing something A T-shirt can be an excellent medium for getting your message across.
Extra Examples- Radio is an important communication medium in many countries.
- The government communicates through the medium of television.
- As a political campaigner he quickly learned to exploit the new medium of radio.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- advertising
- broadcast
- communication
- …
- through the medium of
- medium for
- a medium of communication
- a medium of instruction
- something that is used for a particular purpose
- medium of something English is the medium of instruction (= the language used to teach other subjects).
- medium for doing something Video is a good medium for learning a foreign language.
Extra Examples- The first use of tape as a recording medium was in 1956.
- She used her novels as a medium for encouraging political debate.
- She experimented with the blog as a new medium for exploring issues.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- advertising
- broadcast
- communication
- …
- through the medium of
- medium for
- a medium of communication
- a medium of instruction
- (computing) the material used for storing computer files, such as on magnetic tape or discs
- Copy files to and from the device as you would with any other storage medium.
- the material or the form that an artist, a writer or a musician uses
- the medium of paint/poetry/drama
- Watercolour is his favourite medium.
Extra ExamplesTopics Artc2- Oil paint is her preferred artistic medium.
- The gallery has been committed to the photographic medium for 25 years.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- artistic
- photographic
- mixed media
- …
- (biology) a substance that something exists or grows in or that it travels through
- The bacteria were growing in a sugar medium.
- (plural mediums)a person who claims to be able to communicate with the spirits of dead people
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally denoting something intermediate in nature or degree): from Latin, literally ‘middle’, neuter of medius.
Idioms
See medium in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee medium in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englisha/the happy medium
- something that is in the middle between two choices or two ways of doing something
- She tried to strike a happy medium between making the questions too hard and making them too easy.
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