I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a business/financial/media etc empire
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His business empire is now worth over $20 billion.
a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz
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The campaign was launched with a nationwide publicity blitz.
a media/press campaign
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The government spent thousands of pounds on a media campaign.
a medium of communication (= a way of exchanging information, especially through televison, art, music etc )
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Photography is a very popular medium of communication.
industrial/financial/media etc conglomerate
magnetic media
mass media
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The crime received heavy coverage in the mass media.
media circus
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The trial has turned into a media circus .
media hype
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Despite the media hype , I found the film very disappointing.
media scrutiny (= by newspapers, TV etc )
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How does he cope with the intense media scrutiny?
media studies
media/press coverage (= on television, in newpapers etc )
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The case has received wide press coverage.
media/property/business/newspaper tycoon
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a multi-millionaire property tycoon
medium length
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All the girls had short or medium length hair.
medium term
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The company’s prospects look good in the medium term.
medium wave
medium (= quite hot )
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She ordered a medium curry.
medium/average build
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He was of medium build and wearing a light-coloured jacket.
mixed media
new media
political/media/TV etc pundits
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If you believe the fashion pundits, we’ll all be wearing pink this year.
portable media player
press/media speculation
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She appealed for an end to press speculation about her marriage.
streaming media
strike a happy medium
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I always tried to strike a happy medium between having a home that looked like a bomb had hit it and becoming obsessively tidy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
build
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He was about thirty-five and of medium build but beginning to fill out.
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He is of slim to medium build and was wearing a dark ski mask.
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The robber's described as a white male, in his early to mid twenties and of medium build .
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Police are looking for a man who's five feet eleven inches tall and of medium build .
carrot
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Shred one medium carrot into ribbon strips with a potato peeler, repeat with one medium courgette.
heat
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Stir carefully to mix together, then cook for 3 minutes over a medium heat . 4.
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In the same pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat.
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Cook the dumplings over a medium heat until they are lightly browned underneath.
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In a large frying pan, melt the butter or margarine over medium heat .
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Melt the butter in a heavy pan over a medium heat .
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Melt the butter in the same pot over medium heat .
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Melt butter over medium heat in small skillet.
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Just cook over medium heat , 2 minutes per side.
height
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He was of medium height and was wearing a baggy and very creased cotton suit the colour of oatmeal.
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The majority were of medium height , about a hundred and sixty pounds, clean-shaven and capable-looking.
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In general this is a well designed and well made sweater with a stud fastened neck closure and medium height collar.
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Crazy Horse was a slim man of medium height with brown hair hanging below his waist and a scar above his lip.
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She was a dark-haired woman of medium height with a faintly Asiatic cast to her brow and complexion.
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Of medium height , fair-haired, his gray eyes magnified by glasses with steel-blue frames.
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One was white, of medium height with fair or ginger hair cut short on one side and longer on the other.
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He was of medium height , and had regular, even features of the kind which are instantly forgettable.
length
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The former is bristly, of medium length , coarse, dense and lying close.
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The human eye and brain are much happier reading short to medium length unjustified lines although books are conventionally justified.
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Root Perms For body and lift on short to medium length hair, go for a root perm.
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The horns, thicker than the Kerry's, are of medium length , curving forwards and upwards.
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When the weaving yarn is medium thickness, you want short to medium length floats.
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It is within reach of the stage's edge and seems to be of medium length , not an elongated canne.
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Coat Outer coat is straight, coarse, dense, of medium length and lying flat.
onion
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Slice and fry 4 medium onions until soft.
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If you prefer a stronger flavour of onion , grate half a medium onion into the cottage cheese or fromage frais.
pace
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In addition he was an excellent medium pace round-arm bowler.
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I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace .
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He even played his part as a support bowler, whose right-arm leg-breaks or medium pace could be quite economical.
saucepan
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In a medium saucepan over a low heat, heat cream to just lukewarm.
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Cut into 1-inch cubes, and place in heavy medium saucepan .
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Combine quinces, water and sugar in medium saucepan and bring to simmer over medium-low heat.
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Pour cream into heavy medium saucepan .
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Place juice in a medium saucepan and heat over medium just until the sugar dissolves.
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Bring water and 1 1 / 2 teaspoons salt to rolling boil in medium saucepan .
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In medium saucepan , combine remaining ingredients and bring to boil over high heat.
size
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Many large and medium size companies, government departments and Local authorities are putting Dataease to use somewhere within their organisations.
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It's of medium size with accommodation for just over 200 people.
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The Directors' Workshop - a three-day business review workshop for directors of medium size companies run in conjunction with the Institute of Directors.
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There are people who consider this arrangement as being the most perfect construction yet devised for ships of medium size .
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The Centre for Business Enterprise A centre for the study of high growth medium size companies.
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We used large rollers on the top of the head and switched to the medium size at the back.
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Eyes Eyes are of medium size , almond-shaped with well fitting lids, moderately deep set, neither protruding nor receding.
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There are medium size consultancies, many of which specialise in consumer, industrial or financial clients.
speed
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In smoothly flowing medium speed winds, plumes from power stations can travel in a concentrated stream for hundreds of miles.
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Blend at lowest speed 30 seconds and then beat at medium speed 3 minutes.
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At medium speed , beat in eggs, one at a time, beating for two minutes after each addition.
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With an electric mixer, beat at low speed until moistened and then at medium speed for 3 minutes.
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Beat on medium speed for 5 minutes.
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Beat well at medium speed of the electric mixer.
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Beat 2 minutes at medium speed .
term
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With demand for short and medium term paper picking up, most issues registered gains of up to £3/4.
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Many traders and economists still believe the dollar is likely to head higher in the medium term .
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In the medium term prove to be more cost-effective.
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Politically, however, this is the least likely in the near to medium term .
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The market believes strong growth prospects are limited in the medium term and the stock fell 11p to 456p.
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It hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term .
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For these discussions to take place in an effective manner accurate forecasts are needed over the medium term .
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For the medium term , telecommunications is the key.
wave
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You can receive Network 5 all over Ireland at around 700 and 900 on the medium wave .
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That's why you can no longer get Radio 2 or Radio 3 on medium wave .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full/medium/light-bodied
in the long/short/medium term
movie/media/gambling etc mogul
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The movie moguls were taking it up.
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Under normal circumstances Chaplin may well have simply thrown the eminent movie mogul a mere passing glance of recognition.
the glare of publicity/the media/public scrutiny etc
the mass media
the media
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a case of mass media manipulation
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A White House aide told the media everything he knew about the President's private life.
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Colson believes the media has been overly critical since the Stanford game.
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local media reports
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Pearson is wary of facing the media after last year's scandal.
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The Japanese media quoted Murayama as being "very pleased" with the breakthrough.
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The judge is worried that comments in the media might affect the result of the trial.
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The letter must have been leaked to the media by a White House official.
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The story received a huge amount of media attention.
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There wasn't much about the event in the media .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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medium salsa
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two medium potatoes, peeled and sliced
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What size shirt does he wear -- medium or large?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A big oblong for the managing director, six medium ones for the directors, a dozen small ones for the salesmen.
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At medium speed, beat in eggs, one at a time, beating for two minutes after each addition.
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Blend at lowest speed 30 seconds and then beat at medium speed 3 minutes.
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Even the economy beyond Leeds and Yorkshire pulled my parents and their friends and acquaintances, small to medium middle class.
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He was of medium height, and had regular, even features of the kind which are instantly forgettable.
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Reduce over medium heat to a light sauce consistency.
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Season steaks with pepper and place on grill over medium coals.
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The visitors recall medium pacer Martin Howie after completing a college course and Paul Johnson also returns.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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However, when a good medium is provided it will thrive vigorously and produce numerous shoots on runners.
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Instead we prepare a much better medium which has many of the advantages of the natural environment without its disadvantages.
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Plasticine is a good medium for supporting all sizes of specimen as it is easily moulded and re-used.
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It is a good spawning medium , but it is necessary to inhibit its growth, which can be abundant.
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Qualities of speech Speech is immediate and flexible Speech is the best medium of communication in many situations.
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Stainless steel made good medium of exchange on a planet where all metal had to be imported.
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Poetry is the best medium for this sort of thing, he says.
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Both these forms of support suggest that video is a good medium for extended listening to the foreign language.
growing
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Cultivation: Very indifferent as to its growing medium , it will even grow in fine gravel or unwashed sand.
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Ensure the crown just protrudes above the growing medium .
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Cultivation: This plant is not very demanding as to its growing medium , and therefore can even be grown in gravel.
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Cultivation: The ideal growing medium for this species would contain substantial quantities of organic detritus and mud or clay.
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Cultivation: Ideally the growing medium should consist of some amount of clay.
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A growing medium could also be placed around the roots.
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Cultivation: An extremely undemanding plant as to its growing medium , and will grow almost in any substratum.
happy
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Unfortunately, Elena knew no happy medium: her approach to her better-qualified colleagues was parasitical.
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He told friends he always believed in striking a happy medium .
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Eriksson's task is to find the happy and workable medium between hope and reality.
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Austen believes in love and marriage - the happy medium .
ideal
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Cultivation: The ideal growing medium for this species would contain substantial quantities of organic detritus and mud or clay.
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And such conditions, as noted previously, are an ideal medium for the cultivation of skewed or corrosive organizational beliefs.
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Gouache is an ideal medium for building these forms as the light changes and catches each leaf.
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The versatility of gouache makes it an ideal medium for working in the rugged New Zealand landscape.
mass
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Might advertising be regarded as a mass medium on similar grounds?
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Here, his old taste for face-to-face encounters was complemented by his mastery of the new mass medium of television.
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The Manchester Guardian was a mass medium in Manchester from its foundation in 1821.
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Or is film, not cinema, the mass medium ?
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The same product, the Sun, can thus be described in several different ways as a mass medium .
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Radio had only recently developed into a mass medium for news and entertainment.
new
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Video is a relatively new medium for in-house communications and is used by some companies to great effect.
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For one thing, creating original content in a new medium is hard.
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The film companies, however, were pledged to fight the new medium to the last ditch.
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Many reasons have been advanced to justify government regulation each time a new medium has come along.
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It is always a good idea to look at all possible sources of software for a new medium .
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The fast-rising new medium of television seemed to be the center of the universe.
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Here, his old taste for face-to-face encounters was complemented by his mastery of the new mass medium of television.
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Far better to spend some money exploring this new medium than to ignore the biggest competitive threat since television.
particular
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If a particular medium is wanted, the agency has to listen.
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The context of the particular medium , and the atmosphere it can create, can affect responses to the advertising.
powerful
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He was in command of the most powerful medium ever to affect the thinking and behaviour of people - television.
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But even notoriously conservative newspaper publishers recognize that the Web is a radical and powerful publishing medium .
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It is the most powerful medium for mass communication so far devised.
small
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Nothing huge, small to medium .
suitable
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Is Siporax a suitable replacement medium ?
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About eight teaspoonsful of marine salts dissolved in a gallon of fresh water will afford a suitable hatching medium .
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Cultures are established by placing a few cells on to a suitable medium and then allowing them to multiply.
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At the same time they serve as a suitable spawning medium for many species of aquarium fish.
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For a decade, fertile hen's eggs provided the most suitable medium .
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Photomontage was an immensely suitable medium for the provocative imagery of Dada.
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It may also prove necessary to confound the belief that the local community and environment can not provide a suitable learning medium .
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Tape-slide presentations appear to be a suitable medium for conveying the type of information used in library education.
■ NOUN
contrast
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Also, this technique requires the use of a contrast medium , in this case, tap water.
culture
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Hepatoma cells in culture secrete PLA2 into the culture medium when stimulated by interleukin 6.
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The resulting crude cell suspension is purified using a Ficoll-Hypaque gradient and resuspended in culture medium .
storage
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We can see, then, how computers help to develop and extend information, as well as merely acting as the storage medium .
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The main storage medium inside willow seeds, ants and all other living cells is not electronic but chemical.
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The basic requirement for an advanced information technology is some kind of storage medium with a large number of memory locations.
■ VERB
add
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Suppose, now, that galactosides are added to the medium .
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Also, these drugs can be added to the medium of in vitro neural preparations.
become
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Photography was fast becoming a medium in which working-class people could present themselves to each other.
grow
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But the growing medium of television broadcast something new to worry about in the 1950s.
provide
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For a decade, fertile hen's eggs provided the most suitable medium .
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The gluten should be providing a stretchable medium in which the dough can sustain its rise and hold its dome.
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It may also prove necessary to confound the belief that the local community and environment can not provide a suitable learning medium .
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Cultivation: A layer of peat and gravel, or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium .
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Electronic technology provides a single medium with the power to integrate diverse types of information.
reduce
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For example, water is known to react violently with metallic sodium, another reducing medium utilized commercially.
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Turn fillets over, reduce heat to medium , and cook several minutes more until skin side is browned.
use
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Contrast this with efforts to use a linear medium such as videotape interactively.
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Once in a great while, a show is produced that uses the medium to full and proper advantage.
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I have just started using the medium of watercolour, struggling along and producing paintings of a particular subject.
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Richter is not a conventional painter: he is an artist who happens to use paint as a medium .
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Money balances held for these two purposes are called active balances: money to be used as a medium of exchange.
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Cards are used as the medium which translates the pattern into a mechanical function on the Jacquard loom.
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This chapter examines a selection, using graphics as a medium .
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These activities are lively and innovatory and use the medium of translation to develop both written and oral skills.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a happy medium (between sth and sth)
full/medium/light-bodied
in the long/short/medium term
movie/media/gambling etc mogul
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The movie moguls were taking it up.
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Under normal circumstances Chaplin may well have simply thrown the eminent movie mogul a mere passing glance of recognition.
the glare of publicity/the media/public scrutiny etc
the mass media
the media
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a case of mass media manipulation
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A White House aide told the media everything he knew about the President's private life.
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Colson believes the media has been overly critical since the Stanford game.
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local media reports
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Pearson is wary of facing the media after last year's scandal.
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The Japanese media quoted Murayama as being "very pleased" with the breakthrough.
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The judge is worried that comments in the media might affect the result of the trial.
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The letter must have been leaked to the media by a White House official.
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The story received a huge amount of media attention.
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There wasn't much about the event in the media .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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DVDs have quickly become an extremely popular medium for film viewing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Add the sugar and increase the speed to medium for five minutes.
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But whatever the subject, the mood was predominantly one of escape and the medium one of romance.
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Cultivation: Undemanding as to the planting medium it will grow well in unwashed sand.
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Either answer is partially correct, as the method of absorption varies with different concentrations of nutrients in the medium .
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Poetry is the best medium for this sort of thing, he says.
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The transfer medium is magnetic tape.
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These models were the medium they used to communicate.
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Watercolour is taken to include gouache and bottle artists' colour as well as the traditional transparent medium .
III. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But whatever the subject, the mood was predominantly one of escape and the medium one of romance.
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Either answer is partially correct, as the method of absorption varies with different concentrations of nutrients in the medium .
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Poetry is the best medium for this sort of thing, he says.
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The transfer medium is magnetic tape.
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These models were the medium they used to communicate.
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Watercolour is taken to include gouache and bottle artists' colour as well as the traditional transparent medium .