Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
intermediate manner. - adverb To an
intermediate extent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to an intermediate degree
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Examples
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The remainder were classified as intermediately frail.
NYT > Home Page By PAULA SPAN 2010
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People believe women lie when they say they have human needs: warm and decent clothing; comfort on the bus; interests directed immediately to God and his universe, not intermediately through any child of man.
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Ridding yourself of fatigue (by taking a rest) so that you will be fit to transform your absorbed concentration and body posture when you can no longer be singularly totally immersed in them is (called) “skill intermediately in cutting off becoming diffused.”
Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Four: Enhancing Your Practice the Ninth Karmapa Wangchug-dorjey 2008
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First, teach them to turn from destructive actions; intermediately, to turn from grasping for a gross self; and finally, to turn from all views of truly established existence.
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There is also an intermediately-healthy Chinese food stall for an intermediate price.
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Bath and Bristol -- or whether he was intermediately employed at any other theatre, the writer is not in possession of a single fact to enable him to determine.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Whatever system is adopted, such an enactment would be wise as an independent measure, since much of the public moneys must in their collection and ultimate disbursement pass twice through the hands of public officers, in whatever manner they are intermediately kept.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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Congress and from the conflicting State codes of insolvency which come into force intermediately should be removed by the enactment of a simple, inexpensive, and permanent national bankrupt law.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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-- These are shades that lie intermediately between the scarlets and the crimsons.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
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Land drains, 4 ft. deep, should be laid intermediately between the subsoil drains to remove the water from the soil.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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