Mediate

Definitions: Mediate

Mediate

Adjective

1. Acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact".

2. Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line".

Verb

1. Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute";"He mediated a settlement".

Date "mediate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Health	Indirect; accomplished by the aid of an intervening medium. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mediate

Synonyms: in-between (adj), middle (adj), arbitrate (v), intercede (v), intermediate (v), liaise (v). (additional references)

Antonym: immediate (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deity	Atone, redeem, save, propitiate, mediate;
Instrumentality	Verb: subserve, minister, mediate, intervene; be instrumental; Adjective: pander to; officiate; tend.
Mediation	Verb: mediate, mediatize; intercede, interpose, interfere, intervene; step in, negotiate; meet halfway; arbitrate; magnas componere lites.
Middle	Adjective: middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average; middlemost, midmost; mediate; intermediate; (interjacent); equidistant; central; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	My car is my home where I mediate and relax. (Keiner liebt mich; writing credit: Doris Dörrie)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Catholic Ethicists on Hiv/AIDS Prevention: Thirty-Seven Theologians from Around the World Show How Roman Catholic Moral Traditions Can Mediate the cl (reference) How to Mediate Your Dispute (reference) Learning to Mediate (reference) Mediate Teacher (reference) Mediate Your Divorce and Save Attorney's Fees (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The mechanisms are unknown but may be distinct from those that mediate immunosuppression. (references)
		Which of these and other physiological changes mediate clinical effects is at present unclear. (references)
		Opioid drugs also can cause euphoria by affecting the brain regions that mediate what we perceive as pleasure. (references)
Civil Liberties	Ghana	Unlike in 2000, the Government made no attempts to mediate between charismatic Christian churches and ethnic Ga traditionalists in the period prior to the annual ban on drumming. (references)
	Eritrea	However, in one instance a group of respected elders, who sought to mediate between the President and the political dissidents, were informed that they could not meet because they did not have a permit. (references)
Economic History	Bangladesh	Efforts to mediate the dispute, under the auspices of the Commonwealth Secretariat, failed. (references)
Human Rights	Indonesia	Dawood previously had offered to mediate between the GAM and the Government. (references)
	Eritrea	In September and October, at least two members of a group of elders who tried to mediate between the President and political dissidents were arrested. (references)
	Niger	Chiefs collect local taxes and receive stipends from the Government, but they have no police or judicial powers and can only mediate, not arbitrate, customary law disputes. (references)
Minorities	Ghana	The Permanent Peace Negotiating Team (PPNT) is a facilitative body whose primary purpose is to mediate disputes. (references)
Political Economy	Azerbaijan	As a co-chair together with France and Russia of the OSCE Minsk Group, the United States is helping mediate an end to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. (references)
Political Rights	China	Nonetheless, most committees have the authority to mediate disputes between villagers, improve public order, and authorize small expenditures. (references)
Women	Nicaragua	The commissariats provide both social and legal help to women and mediate spousal conflicts. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	In March Henriette Lagou, Yai's replacement as Minister of Family, Women, and Children's Affairs, reported that women looking for help with family problems, such as forced marriage and domestic violence, approached the committee every day; a few committee members visited the families to mediate. (references)
Worker Rights	El Salvador	In October the Labor Ministry sought to mediate a solution. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	The judicial power, in such case, could not mediate, or hold the balance between the two contending powers, because the legislative would undermine it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Mediate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.64% of the time. "Mediate" is used about 206 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	78.64%	162	24,580
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.02%	33	60,273
Noun (singular)	4.85%	10	111,207
Noun (proper)	0.49%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	206	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "mediate" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Mediate	Last name	130	61,933
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "mediate": mediate between. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "mediate": receptor-mediate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "mediate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndërmjetësoj (intercede, interpose, move in), ndërmjetës (come between, go between, in between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediator, mediator, middleman, moderator, negotiator, procurer, procuress, promotion-man), ndërhyj (barge into, butt in, crab, cut in, intercede, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, intervene, intrude, meddle, monkey, push in), i ndërmjetëm (in between, intermediate). (various references)

Arabic		‏حقق من طريق التوسط, ‏غير مباشر (circuitous, circumstantial, indirect, oblique, roundabout, sidelong, sinuous, vicarious), ‏توسط (centering, go between, intercede, intercession, intermediate, interpose, interposition, mediation, mediocrity), ‏سوى الخلاف (arrange). (various references)

Bulgarian		служа за връзка (liaise), косвен (circuitous, circumstantial, collateral, implicit, implied, indirect, oblique, vicarious), относителен (comparative, relatival, relative, respective), непряк (indirect, oblique, remote, second hand), междинен (intercurrent, intermediary, intermediate, medial, median, medium, osculant, transitional), заемам междинно положение, промеждутъчен (in between, interim, interjacent, intermediate, osculant, transitional), посреднича (interpose, umpire), постигам чрез намеса, постигам чрез посредничество. (various references)

Chinese		斡旋 , 中间 (Amid, Amidst, intermediate, intermediately, medial, medially, median, mid, middle, mid-off, midst). (various references)

Czech		zprostředkující (intermediary), vyjednat (fix), nepřímý (contributory, indirect, oblique, roundabout, tortuous, vicarious), dìlat prostředníka. (various references)

Danish		middelbar. (various references)

Dutch		middelen (means), mediëren, bemiddelen (act as agent). (various references)

Esperanto		mediacii. (various references)

Finnish		välittää (act as an intermediary, arrange supply, care, connect, convey, mind, negotiate, pay attention, provide, relay, transmit), sovittaa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, arrange, atone for, build into, combine, conciliate, expiate, fit in, incorporate into, make amends for, suit), sovitella (adapt, adjust, conciliate). (various references)

French		médiat, médiat, servir d'intermédiateur, se faire le médiateur. (various references)

German		mittelbar (consequential, indirect, indirectly, vicarious). (various references)

Greek		μεσιτεύω, μεσολαβώ (intercede, intervene). (various references)

Hebrew		לישב (accommodate, colonize, people, populate, settle), לתוך (arbitrate, into), לפשר (compromise, temper), להתמצע (be divided in two, be in the middle), לספסר (profiteer, speculate, tout), לסרסר (go between). (various references)

Hungarian		közvetett (collateral, excise, indirect). (various references)

Indonesian		mengantarai (be between, intercede), menengahi. (various references)

Italian		mediare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		執り成す (to intervene, to mediate, to smooth). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とりなす (to intervene, to mediate, to smooth), とりもつ (to entertain, to mediate, to serve). (various references)

Korean		중간 (intermediate, medial, middle). (various references)

Pig Latin		ediatemay

Portuguese		mediar (act as agent). (various references)

Romanian		mijlocit (intermediate), mijloci (interfere), media (intercede, interpose), intermediar (agent, factor, go between, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, mediator, medium, middleman, negotiator, neutral, salesman, wangler), fi mediator, fi intermediar. (various references)

Russian		опосредствованный, промежуточный (in between, interim, intermediate, interproximal, interstitial, neutral, off-year, osculant, transitional), посредничать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		posredovati (go between, interfere), posredan (indirect, interfering, intermediary, oblique). (various references)

Spanish		mediar (arbitrate, come up, happen). (various references)

Swedish		medla (arbitrate, intercede). (various references)

Thai		เป็นผู้ไกล่เกลี่ย, ไกล่เกลี่ย, ซึ่งเป็นการไกล่เกลี่ย, ซึ่งอยู่ระหว่างกลาง. (various references)

Turkish		vasıta olmak, orta (bosom, c, center, central, centre, fair, in between, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, mesial, mesne, meso-, mezzo-, mid, mid-, middle, middling, midst, moderate, passable, secondary), dolaylı (circuitous, constructive, indirect, oblique, remote, roundabout, secondhand), araya girmek (come between, go between, intercede, interfere, interpose, intervene, punctuate, put in, put in a word), aracılık etmek (intercede, intervene), araçlı, ara bulmak (compromise, reconcile, settle a dispute), ara (break, breather, breathing space, bye-, cessation, chasm, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, distance, gap, interim, interlocutory, interlude, intermediary, intermediate, intermission, interregnum, interruption, Interspace, interval, lull, meso-, recess, recessional, recreation, respite, secondary, space, spacing, spread, stand down, surcease, time lag, time out, truce, 'tween). (various references)

Ukranian		опосередкований, бути посередником (go between, intermediate), проміжний (in between, interim, intermediary, interstitial, neuter, neutral, osculant, transitional, transitive). (various references)

Vietnamese		gián tiếp trung gian. (various references)

Welsh		cyfryngu (intervene), athrywyn (arbitrate, intervention, mediation). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mediate": mediated, mediately, mediates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "mediate": immediate, intermediate, remediate. (additional references)
	Words containing "mediate": immediately, immediateness, immediatenesses, intermediated, intermediately, intermediateness, intermediatenesses, intermediates, remediated, remediates, unmediated. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mediate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emidate, madate, Matiabe, Mcdata, mdiate, Mebiame, Medata, mediante, mediater, mediatre, medigate, Medit, medite, medtiate, Mehitabel, meidate, Meziane, midgame, midigate, migiate, miniate, Muidzade, muriate, neidpath. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mediate" (pronounced mē"dēā't)
4	-d ē ā' t	irradiate, radiate, repudiate.
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, enunciate, excoriate, expatriate, expiate, expropriate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, infuriate, ingratiate, initiate, misappropriate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, recreate, renegotiate, renunciate, repatriate, retaliate, substantiate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-t"
	-1 letter: ideate, itemed, meated, mediae, teamed.
	-2 letters: adeem, admit, aimed, amide, demit, edema, mated, media, meted, tamed, timed.
	-3 letters: adit, aide, amid, amie, dame, date, deem, deet, deme, diet, dime, dita, dite, edit, eide, emit, idea, idem, item, made, maid, mate, mead, meat, meed, meet, meta, mete, mite, tame, team, teed, teem, tide, tied.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-t"
	+1 letter: decimate, dementia, diameter, mediated, mediates, medicate, meditate.
	+2 letters: acetamide, alimented, amnestied, bedlamite, deaminate, decimated, decimates, defeatism, demential, dementias, demitasse, diameters, dreamiest, dreamtime, emaciated, emigrated, estimated, geminated, immediate, mediately, mediative, medicated, medicates, meditated, meditates, metalised, metalized, misseated, remediate.
	+3 letters: acetamides, acidimeter, advisement, audiometer, bedlamites, deaminated, deaminates, decametric, defeatisms, dekametric, delaminate, demitasses, denominate, derailment, detainment, dimethoate, dreamtimes, eliminated, emendating, emendation, empathised, empathized, endometria, germinated, immoderate, impetrated, imprecated, magnetised, magnetized, maledicted, manifested, medicament, meditative, meliorated, metallized, misaltered, miscreated, miseducate, misrelated, mistreated, myelinated, nematicide, nematocide, pedimental, radiometer, readmitted, reanimated, remediated, remediates, sidestream, streamside, terminated, timberhead, unmediated.
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