intermediate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lying between two extremes in time or space or state

   going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

   Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

6. 6
   adj

   around the middle of a scale of evaluation

7. 7
   noun

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

8. 8
   verb

   act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, perfect passive participle of intermediō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from intermedius (“intermediate”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).