intermediate

Adjective

intermediate (comparative more intermediate, superlative most intermediate)

1. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
   • Then, being on his knees between my thighs, he drew up his ſhirt, and bared all his hairy thighs, and ſtiff ſtaring truncheon, red-topt, and rooted into a thicket of curls, which cover’d his belly to his navel, and gave it the air of a fleſh-bruſh: and ſoon I felt it joining cloſe to mine, when he...1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages...
   • Such was the station provided for the infrequent services of 1852, when suburban traffic was unheard of, and Hornsey, Colney Hatch & Southgate, Barnet, and Potters Bar were the only intermediate stations on the 17¾ miles between London and Hatfield.1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 650-651

   Synonyms:

   average, middle, middling, mild, medium, medial, moderate

Noun

intermediate (plural intermediates)

1. Anything in an intermediate position.
   • In Oklahoma, an intermediate license holder may not carry more than one non-family member in the vehicle unless accompanied in the front seat by a licensed driver over 21 years of age.2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022
2. An intermediary.
3. An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.

   Synonyms:

   mid-size

4. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
   1. (chemical industries) Any such substance that is produced and sold to commercial customers (business-to-business sales) as an input to other chemical processes.
5. A kind of tyre with relatively light grooving, used for conditions between fully dry and fully wet.
   • Light rain was coming so he chose intermediate tyres.

Verb

IPA/ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.diˌeɪt/

intermediate (third-person singular simple present intermediates, present participle intermediating, simple past and past participle intermediated)

1. (intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.
2. (transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.
   • Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.