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INTERMEDIARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A negotiator who acts as a link between parties
Synonyms:
go-between; intercessor; intermediary; intermediator; mediator
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("intermediary" is a kind of...):
negotiant; negotiator; treater (someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intermediary"):
mediatrix (a woman who is a mediator)
conciliator; make-peace; pacifier; peacemaker; reconciler (someone who tries to bring peace)
diplomat (a person who deals tactfully with others)
harmoniser; harmonizer (a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another)
interpreter; translator (someone who mediates between speakers of different languages)
marriage broker; matcher; matchmaker (someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others)
moderator (someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence)
second hand (an intermediate person; used in the phrase 'at second hand')
Context examples:
This gene plays a role in intermediary metabolism.
(ALDH2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
An inborn metabolic disorder affecting the intermediary metabolism process.
(Intermediary Metabolism Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Signifies an intermediary who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee.
(Care Of, NCI Thesaurus)
Incoming light passes through nerve-fibres and intermediary nerve cells of the neural retina, before encountering the light-sensitive rods and cones at the interface between neural retina and the pigmented retinal epithelium.
(Neural Retina, NCI Thesaurus)
A synthetic dibenzensulfonate derivative muscle relaxant, Atracurium Besylate acts as a non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent, with short to intermediary duration of action and no significant cardiovascular effects.
(Atracurium Besylate, NCI Thesaurus)
Their experiments in fruit flies revealed that motor neurons that control the flies’ muscles release vesicles containing a high concentration of the Arc gene’s messenger RNA (mRNA), the DNA-like intermediary molecule cells use to create the protein encoded by a DNA sequence.
(Memory gene goes viral, National Institutes of Health)
A group of 118 researchers from 11 countries—15 of whom from Brazil—working at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Minas Gerais (Fiocruz Minas), finished sequencing the genome of the Biomphalaria glabrata, the snail that acts as the intermediary host to the worm that causes schistosomiasis.
(Scientists sequence genome of snail linked to schistosomiasis, Agência Brasil)
But we have also seen, and this is even more striking, that the therapeutic molecule is capable of reducing the levels of intermediary metabolites of CoQ10 that can be toxic to the power plant of the cells explains Luis Carlos López García, a researcher of the UGR Biomedical Research Center.
(A new pharmacological therapy against a severe kind of deficiency in Coenzyme Q10, University of Granada)
Regulation of mRNA synthesis requires intermediary proteins that transduce regulatory signals from upstream transcriptional activator proteins to basal transcription machinery at the core promoter.
(Mediator Complex Component Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
