Intermediate vs. Fluent — What's the Difference?

Coming between two things in time, place, character, etc.

Able to express oneself easily and articulately

An intermediate thing.

Smoothly graceful and effortless

Act as intermediary; mediate

Able to flow freely; fluid

Lying or occurring between two extremes or in a middle position or state

Able to express oneself readily and effortlessly

One that is in a middle position or state.

Flowing effortlessly; polished

An intermediary.

Flowing or moving smoothly; graceful

(Chemistry) A substance formed as a necessary stage in the manufacture of a desired end product.

Flowing or capable of flowing; fluid.

An automobile that is smaller than a full-sized model but larger than a compact.

That flows; flowing, liquid.

To act as an intermediary; mediate.

(linguistics) Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.

To intervene.

A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.

Anything in an intermediate position.

Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; - said of language; as, fluent speech.

An intermediary.

A current of water; a stream.

(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; - called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.

(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.

Easy and graceful in shape;

(transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

Smooth and unconstrained in movement;

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.

Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively;

Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.

To come between; to intervene; to interpose.

A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.

Something that is intermediate.

A compound which is produced in the course of a chemical synthesis, which is not itself the final product, but is used in further reactions which produce the final product; also called synthetic intermediate, intermediate compound or intermediate product; - contrasted to starting material and end product or final product. There may be many different intermediates between the starting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses.

A substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;

Lying between two extremes in time or space or degree;

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;