mediate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
He interceded in the family dispute
Types & categories
- negotiate hypernym
Related & opposite
- arbitrament derivation
- intervention derivation
- intermediation derivation
- mediation derivation
- arbitration derivation
- mediator derivation
- arbitrator derivation
- arbitrable derivation
- arbitrative derivation
Sense 2 adjective
acting through or dependent on an intervening agency
the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
mediate between the old and the new
Types & categories
- lie hypernym
Sense 4 adjective
being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
adolescence is an awkward in-between age
Related & opposite
- intermediate similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | arbitrament |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | intervention |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | intermediation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mediation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | arbitration |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mediator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | arbitrator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | arbitrable |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | arbitrative |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | negotiate |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | immediate |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | immediacy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mediacy |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | indirect |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | mediated |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | lie |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | intermediate |