intermediate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
发音 ĭn-tər-mē'dē-ət

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Anything in an intermediate position.
    — In Oklahoma, an intermediate license holder may not carry more than one non-family member in the vehicle unless accompanied in the front seat by a licensed driver over 21 years of age.
  2. An intermediary.
  3. An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.
  4. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
  5. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.; Any such substance that is produced and sold to commercial customers (business-to-business sales) as an input to other chemical processes.
  6. A kind of tyre with relatively light grooving, used for conditions between fully dry and fully wet.
    — Light rain was coming so he chose intermediate tyres.
动词 v.
  1. To mediate, to be an intermediate. intransitive
  2. To arrange, in the manner of a broker. transitive
    — Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
形容词 adj.
  1. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
    — Then, being on his knees between my thighs, he drew up his ſhirt, and bared all his hairy thighs, and ſtiff ſtaring truncheon, red-topt, and rooted into a thicket of curls, which cover’d his belly to his navel, and gave it the air of a fleſh-bruſh: and ſoon I felt it joining cloſe to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both ſides.
    Fanny Hill

词形变化

more intermediate comparative most intermediate superlative intermediates plural intermediates present,singular,third-person intermediating participle,present intermediated participle,past intermediated past

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, perfect passive participle of intermediō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from intermedius (“intermediate”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
词源 2
From a substantivization of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
词源 3
Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
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