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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