The difference between Medium and Mediumly
When used as adverbs, medium means to a medium extent, whereas mediumly means to a extent.
Medium is also noun with the meaning: the chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
Medium is also adjective with the meaning: arithmetically average.
check bellow for the other definitions of Medium and Mediumly
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Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums'''):
The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums'''):
The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums'''):
A format for communicating or presenting information.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums''', engineering):
The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums''', microbiology):
A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums'''):
The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums''' or '''media'''):
A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums''' or '''media''', painting):
A tool used for painting or drawing.
Examples:
"Acrylics, oils, charcoal, and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting."
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Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums''', spiritualism):
Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums'''):
Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums'''):
A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
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Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums''', Ireland, dated, informal):
A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
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Medium as a noun:
A middle place or degree.
Examples:
"a happy medium"
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Medium as a noun (dated):
An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
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Medium as a noun (logic):
The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
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Medium as an adjective (obsolete):
Arithmetically average.
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Medium as an adjective:
Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
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Medium as an adjective:
Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
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Medium as an adverb:
to a medium extent
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Mediumly as an adverb:
to a extent
Examples:
"This dish is mediumly good: not exceptional, but not bad."