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Medium vs. Moderate — What's the Difference?

Medium vs. Moderate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Medium and Moderate

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Medium

An agency or means of doing something
Using the latest technology as a medium for job creation
Their primitive valuables acted as a medium of exchange

Moderate

Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme
A moderate price.

Medium

The intervening substance through which sensory impressions are conveyed or physical forces are transmitted
Radio communication needs no physical medium between the two stations

Moderate

Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate
A moderate climate.

Medium

A particular form of storage material for computer files, such as magnetic tape or discs.
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Moderate

Of medium or average quantity or extent.

Medium

The material or form used by an artist, composer, or writer
Oil paint is the most popular medium for glazing

Moderate

Of limited or average quality; mediocre.

Medium

A person claiming to be in contact with the spirits of the dead and to communicate between the dead and the living.

Moderate

Opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion.

Medium

The middle quality or state between two extremes; a reasonable balance
There is a medium between being modest and boastful

Moderate

One who holds or champions moderate views or opinions, especially in politics or religion.

Medium

About halfway between two extremes of size or another quality; average
Medium-length hair
Plan for the medium term
John is six feet tall, of medium build

Moderate

To cause to be less extreme, intense, or violent.

Medium

Something, such as an intermediate course of action, that occupies a position or represents a condition midway between extremes.

Moderate

To preside over
She was chosen to moderate the convention.

Medium

A substance that propagates energy or signals through space via changes in its own state
Air acts as a medium for the transmission of sound waves.

Moderate

To become less extreme, intense, or violent; abate.

Medium

The sparsely distributed gas and dust subsisting in the space between stars.

Moderate

To act as a moderator.

Medium

Moderate

Not excessive; acting in moderation
Moderate language
A moderate Calvinist
Travelling at a moderate speed

Medium

An agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred
The train was the usual medium of transportation in those days.

Moderate

More than mild, less than severe

Medium

A means of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television.

Moderate

Mediocre

Medium

Media(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The group of journalists and others who constitute the communications industry and profession.

Moderate

Average priced; standard-deal

Medium

Pl. media(Computers)Any of various kinds of storage devices, such as hard drives or digital audiotape.

Moderate

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
A moderate winter

Medium

Pl. mediums A person thought to have the power to communicate with the spirits of the dead or with agents of another world or dimension. Also called psychic.

Moderate

Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

Medium

A surrounding environment in which something functions and thrives.

Moderate

One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so
The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.

Medium

The substance in which a specific organism lives and thrives.

Moderate

One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.

Medium

A culture medium.

Moderate

(transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)
To moderate rage, action, desires, etc.

Medium

A specific kind of artistic technique or means of expression as determined by the materials used or the creative methods involved
The medium of lithography.

Moderate

(intransitive) To become less excessive

Medium

The materials used in a specific artistic technique
Oils as a medium.

Moderate

(transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator
To moderate a synod

Medium

A solvent with which paint is thinned to the proper consistency.

Moderate

(intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise

Medium

(Chemistry) A filtering substance, such as filter paper.

Moderate

To supply with a moderator substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission.
A graphite-moderated reactor

Medium

Occurring or being between two degrees, amounts, or quantities; intermediate
Ordered a medium coffee.

Moderate

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
A number of moderate members managed . . . to obtain a majority in a thin house.

Medium

The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.

Moderate

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.

Medium

The materials or empty space through which signals, waves, or forces pass.

Moderate

One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.

Medium

A format for communicating or presenting information.

Moderate

To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.
By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.
To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive.

Medium

(microbiology) A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro.

Moderate

To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting or a discussion; as, to moderate a synod; to moderate a debate.

Medium

(biology, horticulture etc.) A substance, structure, or environment in which living organisms subsist, grow or are cultured.

Moderate

To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.

Medium

A means, channel, agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieved.

Moderate

To preside as a moderator.
Dr. Barlow [was] engaged . . . to moderate for him in the divinity disputation.

Medium

(engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.

Moderate

A person who takes a position in the political center

Medium

A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.

Moderate

Preside over;
John moderated the discussion

Medium

(painting) A means of expression, in the arts, such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc).
Acrylics, oils, charcoal, and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.

Moderate

Make less fast or intense;
Moderate your speed

Medium

Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.

Moderate

Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits;
Moderate your alcohol intake
Hold your tongue
Hold your temper
Control your anger

Medium

An item labelled or denoted as being that size.

Moderate

Make less severe or harsh;
He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears

Medium

One who fits an item of that size.

Moderate

Make less strong or intense; soften;
Tone down that aggressive letter
The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements

Medium

A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).

Moderate

Restrain or temper

Medium

(countable) A middle place or degree.
A happy medium

Moderate

Being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme;
Moderate prices
A moderate income
A moderate fine
Moderate demands
A moderate estimate
A moderate eater
Moderate success
A kitchen of moderate size
The X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart

Medium

An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.

Moderate

Not extreme;
A moderate penalty
Temperate in his response to criticism

Medium

The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.

Moderate

Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes;
Moderate in his demands
Restrained in his response

Medium

(obsolete) Arithmetically average.

Medium

Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.

Medium

Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.

Medium

That is medium the manufactured size.

Medium

To a medium extent.

Medium

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity.
The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection.

Medium

See Mean.

Medium

A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound.
Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
I must bring togetherAll these extremes; and must remove all mediums.

Medium

An average.
A medium of six years of war, and six years of peace.

Medium

A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper.

Medium

The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application.

Medium

A source of nutrients in which a microorganism is placed to permit its growth, cause it to produce substances, or observe its activity under defined conditions; also called culture medium or growth medium. The medium is usually a solution of nutrients in water, or a similar solution solidified with gelatin or agar.

Medium

A means of transmission of news, advertising, or other messages from an information source to the public, also called a news medium, such as a newspaper or radio; used mostly in the plural form, i. e. news media or media. See 1st media{2}.

Medium

Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.

Medium

A means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information

Medium

The surrounding environment;
Fish require an aqueous medium

Medium

An intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication

Medium

(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms

Medium

An intervening substance through which something is achieved;
The dissolving medium is called a solvent

Medium

A liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter

Medium

(biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed

Medium

A state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position;
A happy medium

Medium

Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead;
He consulted several mediums

Medium

Transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public

Medium

An occupation for which you are especially well suited;
In law he found his true metier

Medium

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;
An orange of average size
Intermediate capacity
A plane with intermediate range
Medium bombers

Medium

(of meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside

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