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MEDIATING

Definition: MEDIATING

MEDIATING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Mediate

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MEDIATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)


Crosswords: MEDIATING

English words defined with "MEDIATING": Hideki Yukawaimmediacy, immediateness, Intercedent, intermediationmediationNational Labor Relations Board, NRLBvestibular apparatus, vestibular systemYukawa. (references)
Specialty definitions using "MEDIATING": Antigens, CD56, Antigens, CD80Complement 5aGenes, mycmediating variableProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycReceptor, trkB, Receptor, trkCT-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MEDIATING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ethics and Governance: Business As Mediating Institution (Ruffin Series in Business Ethics) (reference)

  • Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect (reference)

  • Mediating Child Custody Disputes : A Strategic Approach (reference)

  • Mediating Divorce, Mediating Divorce : A Step-by-Step Manual (reference)

  • Mediating the Message: Theories of Influence on Mass Media Content (2nd Edition) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: MEDIATING

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

It is known that the factors mediating renal osteodystrophy are present early in the course of progressive renal disease. (references)

The mechanism mediating this phenotypic variation is unknown, and current hypotheses are inadequate for accounting for this variation. (references)

Other than supporting the notion that T cells are critically involved in mediating the lung and/or cardiac injury in HPS, the significance of these immunogenetic data is not yet known. (references)

Economic History

Central African Republic

President Patasse also has manifested considerable interest in mediating conflicts in the region. (references)

Armenia

Accepting, mediating, and giving bribes is a criminal offense and is punishable by up to 8-15 years imprisonment plus confiscation of personal property for repeated crimes. (references)

Indonesia

The United States has welcomed Indonesia's contributions to regional security, especially its leading role in helping restore democracy in Cambodia and in mediating among the many territorial claimants in the South China Sea. (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

Following these events the local Road Transportation Board began mediating negotiations between Convention for a Democratic Taxi Association (CODETA) and Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA). (references)

Philippines

The national court system consists of four levels: Local and regional trial courts; a national Court of Appeals divided into 17 divisions; a 15-member Supreme Court; and an informal local system for arbitrating or mediating certain disputes outside the formal court system. (references)

Algeria

The Commission's mandate includes: Reporting on human rights issues; coordinating with police and justice officials; advocating domestic and international human rights causes; mediating between the Government and the population; and providing expertise on human rights issues to the Government. (references)

Political Economy

THE BAHAMAS

Collective bargaining is protected by law and the Ministry of Labor is responsible for mediating disputes. (references)

India

The BJP Government may not move forward with needed reforms at a desirable pace because it is faced with mediating among competing interests both within its own party and among coalition partners. (references)

Political Rights

Comoros

The opposition parties initially refused to participate in the Tripartite Commission, but in December 2000, they met with the Azali Government, and the OAU began mediating negotiations. (references)

Women

Mozambique

A group of women's NGO's, including Women in Law and Development, Mozambican Women in Education, Women in Judicial Careers, and the FRELIMO-sponsored Mozambican Women's Organization, support the organization All Against Violence, which serves as a monitoring and educational group for problems of domestic violence and sexual abuse of women and children, including counseling of victims and mediating within families. (references)

Worker Rights

Macau

There have been credible reports that women from Vietnam are trafficked into Macau as mail-order brides, with the assistance of organizations purporting to be travel agencies, international labor organizations, or marriage mediating services. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MEDIATING

"MEDIATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.82% of the time. "MEDIATING" is used about 73 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)80.82%5944,010
Adjective (general or positive)19.18%1493,893
                    Total100.00%73N/A

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

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Expression: MEDIATING

Expression using "MEDIATING": mediating variable. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "MEDIATING": oxygen-mediating.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MEDIATING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  connector mediating

65

  mediating

3

  mediating variable

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: MEDIATING

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

Chinese 

  

斡旋 (mediated, mediation). (various references)

   

Danish

  

mellemliggende variabel (intervening variable, mediating variable). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

testvariabele (intervening variable, mediating variable), bemiddelende mogendheid (country which offers its services, mediating power). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

muistitoimintoja välittävä hermojärjestelmä (neural system mediating memory), välittäjävalta (country which offers its services, mediating power), väliintuleva muuttuja (intervening variable, mediating variable). (various references)

   

French

  

variable intermédiaire (mediating variable), système neuronal de médiation (mediating neural system), système neuronal de la mémoire (neural system mediating memory), puissance médiatrice (mediating power). (various references)

   

German

  

vermittelnde Macht (country which offers its services, mediating power), neurales Vermittlungssystem (mediating neural system), gedächtnisaufbauendes neuronales System (neural system mediating memory). (various references)

   

Italian

  

variabile intermedia (intervening variable, mediating variable), sistema neurale mediatore (mediating neural system), sistema neurale che media la memoria (neural system mediating memory), potenza mediatrice (country which offers its services, mediating power). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

중재 (Arbitration, refereeing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ediatingmay

   

Portuguese

  

potência mediadora (country which offers its services, mediating power). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

mediator (interceder, intercessor, mediator, mediatory, peace maker). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

variable interviniente (intervening variable, mediating variable), sistema neural que interviene en la memoria (neural system mediating memory), sistema neural de mediación (mediating neural system). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

medlarstat (country which offers its services, mediating power), neuralt system för minnesbildning (neural system mediating memory), neuralt system för begreppsbildning (mediating neural system). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: MEDIATING

Derivations

Words ending with "MEDIATING": intermediating, remediating. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "MEDIATING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "MEDIATING" (pronounced mē"dēā'ting)
6-d ē ā' t i ngradiating, repudiating.
5-ē ā' t i ngabbreviating, affiliating, alleviating, appreciating, appropriating, associating, delineating, depreciating, differentiating, enunciating, excoriating, excruciating, humiliating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, misappropriating, nauseating, negotiating, obviating, officiating, permeating, recreating, renegotiating, repatriating, retaliating.
4-ā' t i ngabdicating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, aggravating, agitating, alienating, allocating, alternating, anticipating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, cooperating, coordinating, corroborating, culminating, cultivating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, deregulating, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, dictating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, laminating, legislating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, meditating, migrating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, navigating, necessitating, nitrating, nominating, nonoperating, obliterating, operating, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relegating, renovating, replicating, resonating, resuscitating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, validating, ventilating.
3-t i ngabating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abutting, accenting, accepting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, annotating, appointing, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: MEDIATING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-t"

-1 letter: ideating, imagined.

-2 letters: amidine, diamine, dieting, editing, ignited, imagine, inedita, intimae, iteming, mediant, mintage, teaming, tegmina.

-3 letters: aiding, aidmen, aiming, amidin, daimen, dating, degami, detain, diamin, dieing, eating, enigma, etamin, gained, gaited, gamine, ignite, imaged, indite, ingate, inmate, intima, intime, magnet, maiden, mantid, mating, median, medina, meting, midget, minted, nidget, tamein, taming, tandem.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-t"
 

+1 letter: decimating, medicating, meditating.

 

+2 letters: deaminating, diamagnetic, maledicting, readmitting, remediating, unmitigated.

 

+3 letters: delaminating, denominating, diamagnetism, miseducating, preadmitting.

 

+4 letters: administering, animadverting, demagnetizing, democratizing, demyelinating, diamagnetisms, disseminating, domesticating, masterminding, predominating, premeditating, unmitigatedly.

 

+5 letters: delegitimation, demilitarizing, depigmentation, intermediating, overmedicating, transmogrified.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MEDIATING


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

4D 45 44 49 41 54 49 4E 47

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)

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

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Bibliographic Items: "MEDIATING"


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