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MEDIATELY

Definition: MEDIATELY

MEDIATELY

Adverb

1. In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; -- opposed to immediately.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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


Crosswords: MEDIATELY

English words defined with "MEDIATELY": Tenant in capite, Tenant in chief. (references)

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Usage Frequency: MEDIATELY

"MEDIATELY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MEDIATELY" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: MEDIATELY

Language Translations for "MEDIATELY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

间接 (Circumstantial, indirect, indirection). (various references)

   

German

  

indirekt (allusively, implicit, implicitly, implied, indirect, indirectly, mediate, oblique, obliquely, second hand, slanting, vicarious). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

közvetve (by implication, indirectly), közvetett úton. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

중간적으로 (intermediately, medially). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ediatelymay

   

Thai

  

ระหว่างกลาง (medianly). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

dolaylı olarak (circuitously, edgeways, edgewise, implicitly, in extenso, indirectly), arada olarak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: MEDIATELY

Derivations

Words ending with "MEDIATELY": immediately, intermediately. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "MEDIATELY"

Words rhyming with "MEDIATELY" (pronounced 'Me"di*ate*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MEDIATELY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-t-y"

-2 letters: daytime, emailed, limeade, meatily, mediate, metaled.

-3 letters: aedile, daylit, delate, delime, detail, dilate, elated, eyelid, ideate, itemed, mailed, malted, mealie, meated, mediae, medial, medley, meetly, melted, milady, milted, tailed, tamely, teamed, timely.

-4 letters: adeem, admit, ailed, aimed, amide, amity, daily, dealt, deity, delay, delta, demit, dimly, edema, edile, elate, elemi, elide, elite, email.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-t-y"
 

+1 letter: myelinated.

 

+2 letters: immediately.

 

+3 letters: determinably, immoderately, meditatively, multilayered, unmyelinated.

 

+4 letters: demyelinating, demyelination, determinately, detrimentally, nonmyelinated, predominately, remediability.

 

+5 letters: absentmindedly, demyelinations, denumerability, electrodynamic, indeterminably, intermediately, premeditatedly, radiotelemetry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MEDIATELY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 45 44 49 41 54 45 4C 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .    -..    ..    .-    -    .    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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