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Intermediate   /ˌɪntərmˈidiɪt/  /ˌɪnərmˈidiɪt/   Listen
Intermediate

adjective
1.
Lying between two extremes in time or space or state.  "Intermediate stages in a process" , "Intermediate stops on the route" , "An intermediate range plane"
2.
Around the middle of a scale of evaluation.  Synonyms: average, medium.  "Intermediate capacity" , "Medium bombers"
verb
1.
Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.  Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, liaise, mediate.  "He mediated a settlement"
noun
1.
A substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained.



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"Intermediate" Quotes from Famous Books



... that no "bean-stripe"—each bean, white or black, standing for a day—is wholly black, and that the more extended is our field of vision the more is the general aspect of the "bean-stripe" of a colour intermediate between the extremes of darkness and of light. Before the poem closes, Browning turns aside to consider the Positivist position. Why give our thanks and praise for all the good things of life to God, whose existence is an inference ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden
... Heights Receiving Towers twenty minutes ahead of time, and there hung at ease till the Yokohama Intermediate Packet could pull out and give us our proper slip. It was curious to watch the action of the holding-down clips all along the frosty river front as the boats cleared or came to rest. A big Hamburger was leaving Pont Levis and her crew, unshipping the platform railings, began to sing "Elsinore"—the ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling
... hunting and horse-racing—to which, indeed, might be added everything under the name of sport—as regarded the stronger. Sunday comforts were also enemies which he hated with a vigorous hatred, unless three full services a day, with sundry intermediate religious readings and exercitations of the spirit, may be called Sunday comforts. But not on this account should it be supposed that Mr Stumfold was a dreary, dark, sardonic man. Such was by no ...
— Miss Mackenzie • Anthony Trollope
... of the story is for the little boys and girls. But we must say a word also to the boys and girls of the junior and intermediate classes. It is this: That the branch of the apple tree, in bringing forth in its time the leaf-buds, the leaves, the blossoms, the green apples and the ripened fruit, has done nothing excepting that which God planned that it should do. He asks of it no more and ...
— Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear - Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks • B.J. Griswold
... diffusion of many genera, and even species, of arctic and north temperate plants in the southern hemisphere or on the summits of tropical mountains. Nearly fifty of the flowering plants of Tierra-del-Fuego are found also in North America or Europe, but in no intermediate country; while fifty-eight species are common to New Zealand and Northern Europe; thirty-eight to Australia, Northern Europe, and Asia; and no less than seventy-seven common to New Zealand, Australia, and South America.[180] On lofty mountains ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace


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