interlocutor vs intermediate

interlocutor

noun
  • A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation. 

  • A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the end men and acts as leader. 

  • A decree of a court. 

  • An interlocutory judgement or sentence. 

intermediate

noun
  • An intermediary. 

  • Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product. 

  • Anything in an intermediate position. 

adj
  • Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range. 

verb
  • To mediate, to be an intermediate. 

  • To arrange, in the manner of a broker. 

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