media

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈmiː.di.ə/|/ˈmɛ.di.ə/    美 /ˈmi.di.ə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  2. plural of medium (only in certain senses) form-of,plural
    — The media have differed in their approaches to coverage of the scandal.
  3. The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  4. A voiced stop consonant. dated
  5. plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”) form-of,nonstandard,plural,rare
    — There is, again, “the writing medium,” the man or woman influenced seeming to lose control of the right arm, when the pen or pencil is taken;[…]. There is, finally, “the speaking medium,” the person influenced being lost in a swoon or trance, and then uttering strange and unaccountable sentiments and expressions. Moreover, it is now asserted as the teaching of these media, that the scenes of the Salem witchcraft, so called, were the attempts of the spirits in another world to make their presence known, and to convey communications to the living. […] Media, Persons of Nervous Organism. […] We should not disparage at all, we wish not to do so, the character of those who are generally the media. We allude not to the fact that they are generally young, and inexperienced, and females.
  6. The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published. countable,uncountable
    — Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.
  7. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
  8. The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry. countable,uncountable,usually
    — Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
  9. An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  10. Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material. countable,uncountable
  11. Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L historical
形容词 adj.
  1. Clipping of multimedia. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,not-comparable
    — I have media files stored on an external hard drive.

词形变化

medias plural mediae plural media plural medias plural

词汇关系

衍生词
acute otitis media chronic suppurative otitis media media archaeologist media archaeology medial service media tunica media antimedia bimedia bimediality cybermedia dead media digital media drive-by media earned media electronic media enemedia Godi media growing media hypermedia intermedia Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy legacy media lost media Lutyens' media mass media media advocacy media bridge media center mediacentric media circus mediacracy mediacrat mediacy media darling media democracy media event mediafan mediagenic media-historical media hype mediakin media kit medialect mediamacro mediamaking media outlet mediaperson mediasation media-savvy mediascape mediaspeak mediasphere media studies media stunt mediatic media whore mediazation mediot megamedia metamedia mixed media moist media multimedia new media news media nonmedia old media open media optical media polymedia print media rich media SOCMINT soft media streaming media transmedia trial by media viral media watermedia yellow media Ziomedia

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.
词源 2
Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).
词源 3
Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).
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