border vs medium

border

noun
  • A decorative strip around the edge of something. 

  • A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string. 

  • The outer edge of something. 

  • A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown. 

  • border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup. 

  • The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions. 

verb
  • To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon). 

  • To put a border on something. 

  • To form a border around; to bound. 

  • To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with). 

  • To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of. 

medium

noun
  • A liquid base which carries pigment in paint. 

  • A format for communicating or presenting information. 

  • A middle place or degree. 

  • A means, channel, agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieved. 

  • A substance, structure, or environment in which living organisms subsist, grow or are cultured. 

  • One who fits an item of that size. 

  • A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro. 

  • The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process. 

  • The materials or empty space through which signals, waves, or forces pass. 

  • One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured. 

  • A means of expression, in the arts, such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc). 

  • The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection. 

  • An item labelled or denoted as being that size. 

  • The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent. 

  • Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world. 

adj
  • That is medium (the manufactured size). 

  • Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc. 

  • Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre. 

adv
  • To a medium extent. 

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