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say it: MEE-dee-ayt
mediate is a verb and adjective meaning "act between parties with a view to reconciling differences". It carries 4 recorded senses.
act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
“He interceded in the family dispute”
“He mediated a settlement”
occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
“mediate between the old and the new”
being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
“adolescence is an awkward in-between age”
“in a mediate position”
“the middle point on a line”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mediate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.