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Meaning of mediate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mediate
      adj 1: acting through or dependent on an intervening agency;
             "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
             [ant: {immediate}]
      2: 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" [syn: {in-between},
         {mediate}, {middle}]
      v 1: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
           "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a
           settlement" [syn: {intercede}, {mediate}, {intermediate},
           {liaise}, {arbitrate}]
      2: occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a
         connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between
         the old and the new"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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