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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intermediate
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beginners’/elementary/intermediate/advanced class (=teaching different levels of a subject)
▪ An advanced class might be available.
an elementary/intermediate/advanced course
▪ an advanced course in art and design
an intermediate learner
▪ These exercises are designed for intermediate learners.
intermediate school
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
class
▪ They support the views of Goldthorpe and Lockwood that clerical workers are in an intermediate class between the working and service classes.
▪ Some one who was neither service class nor intermediate class would, by elimination, be working class.
▪ The sub-arterial road was to be an intermediate class of road designed to link up the main arterials to the local roads.
▪ Path b 2 represents the effect of being in the intermediate class on the chances of attending a selective secondary school.
form
▪ Does evolution sometimes have to pass through intermediate forms of low fitness?
▪ Paleontologists have found many transitional fossils representing intermediate forms in the evolution of one major form of life into another.
▪ Small lakes contain but one kind of fish, of intermediate form.
▪ However, this intermediate form could be interpreted directly by a computer with a stack or last-in-first-out store.
▪ We therefore introduce a intermediate form to act as a conceptual and technical bridge.
▪ The intermediate form introduces a totally new concept, the named subcontractor.
▪ They looked for intermediate forms to bridge the gaps that Cuvier insisted lay between the known classes and types.
level
▪ Streetwise keeps students' motivation strong ... Teenage students at intermediate level can easily become bored and frustrated.
▪ On nationalisation, the divisions had acquired around 300 power stations, initially grouping them for management at an intermediate level.
▪ For these reasons also, it is hard to fit in any check points at intermediate levels in the hierarchy.
▪ Takes beginners up to intermediate level by showing trainees working on specific jobs.
▪ The most intensely radioactive is high-level waste - typically a thousand times more potent than the intermediate level.
▪ Usually, however, we have to recognise one or more intermediate levels.
▪ The intermediate level of reconstruction, option two, reduced speeds and gave very promising results in accident reduction.
position
▪ Those who gave smoking up in later life occupy an intermediate position.
▪ The generic team occupied an intermediate position.
▪ There was no basis upon which any intermediate position could be chosen.
▪ I support an intermediate position, in which one performs appropriate investigations in the right order for a few patients.
product
▪ I also showed how to arrive at a successful transfer price where there was no market for the intermediate product.
▪ In the appendix to this chapter we show a Lancaster-type formulation of differentiated intermediate products, which leads to similar results.
▪ If there is a market for the intermediate product, then transferring at the market price is usually sound.
range
▪ The 1987 intermediate nuclear forces treaty eliminated all United States and Soviet ground-based intermediate range nuclear missiles.
school
▪ About one-eighth of secondary pupils in Northern Ireland attend grammar secondary schools, the remainder attending secondary intermediate schools.
stage
▪ Let us look in more detail at the intermediate stages of the sequence.
▪ There are of course intermediate stages and degrees.
▪ Consider, however, what happens during the intermediate stages of fracture.
▪ His scripts represent an intermediate stage in the process.
▪ The fact that these understandings are incomplete or ineffectively explained arises because of our intermediate stage of knowledge.
▪ In the second month of the class she began to prod the class toward the intermediate stage.
▪ The interview schedule, then, is essentially an intermediate stage in research, and it fulfils a variety of functions.
▪ The arch will stand once the last stone is in place, but the intermediate stages are unstable.
value
▪ The intermediate values between 25 and 90 would be interpolated on to the 0-255 range of the display device.
▪ Usually, they are intermediate values to allow for later additions.
▪ The average relative abundances for these species ranges from 28.9 to 45.3, with intermediate values for the species of eagle owl.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ intermediate skiers
▪ an intermediate Japanese class
▪ an intermediate step in the problem-solving process
▪ One intermediate estimate put the cost at $3,500.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it does show that intermediate designs are capable of working.
▪ Does evolution sometimes have to pass through intermediate forms of low fitness?
▪ For these reasons also, it is hard to fit in any check points at intermediate levels in the hierarchy.
▪ In the appendix to this chapter we show a Lancaster-type formulation of differentiated intermediate products, which leads to similar results.
▪ My few days were intermediate - cloudy, rough, with the reef and turbid water yet to fully recover.
▪ Noncallable bonds, intermediate maturities and munis offering some extra yield were among the most popular, Mr Rowley said.
▪ This means that multiple encryption / decryption need not be done at every intermediate point.
▪ Thus the larger is n, the lower the effective price of intermediate inputs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intermediate

Intermediate \In`ter*me"di*ate\, n.

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

  2. Something that is intermediate.

  3. Specifically: (Chem.) 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.

    Note: The term has the same meaning with respect to intermediate compounds produced in a biosynthetic pathway in living organisms.

Intermediate

Intermediate \In`ter*me"di*ate\, v. i. To come between; to intervene; to interpose.
--Milton.

Intermediate

Intermediate \In`ter*me"di*ate\, a. [Pref. inter- + mediate: cf. F. interm['e]diat.]

  1. 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.

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

    Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body.

    Intermediate terms (Math.), the terms of a progression or series between the first and the last (which are called the extremes); the means.

    Intermediate tie. (Arch.) Same as Intertie.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intermediate

early 15c., from Medieval Latin intermediatus "lying between," from Latin intermedius "that which is between," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + medius "in the middle" (see medial (adj.)).

intermediate

c.1600, from inter- + mediate (v.). Related: Intermediated; intermediating.

Wiktionary
intermediate

  1. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range. n. 1 Anything in an intermediate position. 2 An intermediary. 3 (context chemistry English) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive English) to mediate, to be an intermediate 2 (context transitive English) to arrange, in the manner of a broker

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WordNet
intermediate

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

intermediate

  1. adj. lying between two extremes in time or space or degree; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate level" [ant: first, last]

  2. 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" [syn: average, medium]

intermediate

v. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" [syn: intercede, mediate, liaise, arbitrate]

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Wikipedia
Intermediate

Intermediate means "occurring between two extremes, or in the middle of a range". It comes from the Latin word 'intermedia' which literally means 'among the middle' ('Inter' means among; 'media' means middle) and may refer to:

  • Intermediate 1 or Intermediate 2, educational qualifications in Scotland
  • Intermediate (anatomy), the relative location of an anatomical structure lying between two other structures: see Anatomical terms of location
  • Intermediate Edison Screw, a system of light bulb connectors
  • Intermediate goods, goods used to produce other goods
  • Middle school, also known as intermediate school
  • Intermediate Examination, the standardized post-secondary entrance exam in India, also known as the Higher Secondary Examination
  • Reaction intermediate or intermediate, a short-lived, unstable molecule in a chemical reaction; also a stable reaction product whose only use is as a precursor chemical for other reactions
  • Intermediate car, an automobile size classification
  • Intermediate cartridge, a type of firearms cartridge
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Usage examples of "intermediate".

I have chosen to use the natural and obvious pronouns for male and female, and to represent the intermediates - or apices - with whatever pronominal term best indicates their place in their society, relative to the existing sexual power-balance of yours.

Thus the Arunta imagine that for some time after death the spirit of the deceased is in a sort of intermediate state, partly hovering about the abode of the living, partly visiting his own proper spiritual home, to which on the completion of the mourning ceremonies he will retire to await the new birth.

Some scientists would be bothered by the lack of intermediate dishware species -- say a frying pan with a beer mug handle -- but they would assume it to exist somewhere undiscovered.

In the intermediate or spiritual world are the earths inhabited by men, and surrounded by the transition state through which souls, escaping from their bodies, after a while soar to heaven or sink to hell, according to their fitness and attraction.

We encounter for example the rectus femoris, the saphenous nerve, the iliotibial tract, the femoral artery, the vastus medialis, the vastus lateralis, the vastus intermedius, the gracilis, the adductor magnus, the adductor longus, the intermediate femoral cutaneous nerve and other simple premechanical devices of this nature.

Plutarch says that the Gods, by means of Genii, who are intermediates between them and men, draw near to mortals in the ceremonies of initiation, at which the Gods charge them to assist, and to distribute punishment and blessing.

K-mesons, Higgs bosons, intermediate vector bosons, baryons, tachyons.

The outer corolla is much shorter, crumpled, rolled back, and somewhat marked with green, as if intermediate in its nature between the larger corolla and the calyx.

A larger proportion of squirrels of the new, better adapted variety would survive every year, and the intermediate links would die in the course of time, without having been starved out by Malthusian competitors.

Intermediate markets can now emerge at the interfaces in the architecture, and specialist firms can enter to serveone layer within the architecture.

Companies must open themselves horizontally by participating in the intermediate markets within the architecture.

The Melipona itself is intermediate in structure between the hive and humble bee, but more nearly related to the latter: it forms a nearly regular waxen comb of cylindrical cells, in which the young are hatched, and, in addition, some large cells of wax for holding honey.

Rumor held that one of his intermediate consorts had not been entirely human, but rather an Oceanid or Nereid, called Idyia, Hecate, or Nearea, in various versions of the story.

The psychical organs sustain an intermediate relation, receiving the impressions of the bodily propensities, and, likewise, of the highest emotions.

But the faculties of the Soul are many, and it has its beginning, its intermediate phases, its final fringe.