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"word": "toimia välittäjänä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "välittää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "schlichten"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "mesiteúō",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "μεσιτεύω"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "mediare"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "media"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "pòsredovati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "mediar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "medla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "förhandla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "resolve differences",
"word": "förlika"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "調解"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tiáojiě",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "调解"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "sovitella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "välittää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "vermitteln"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "midumōn",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌿𐌼𐍉𐌽"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mesolavó",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "μεσολαβώ"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "közbenjár"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "közvetít"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "mediare"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "posreduva",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "посредува"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "pòsredovati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "mediar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "terciar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "intervene between conflicting parties",
"word": "medla"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "act as communicative agent",
"word": "būt par vidutāju"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act as communicative agent",
"word": "vehicular"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "oposeredkóvuvaty",
"sense": "act as communicative agent",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "опосередко́вувати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "oposeredkuváty",
"sense": "act as communicative agent",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "опосередкува́ти"
}
],
"word": "mediate"
}
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"word": "immediate"
},
{
"word": "immediately"
},
{
"word": "mediately"
}
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"name": "bor"
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"3": "",
"4": "to divide in the middle"
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"3": "medius",
"4": "",
"5": "middle"
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}
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"ref": "1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, page 318",
"text": "The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf",
"text": "Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.",
"type": "quotation"
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"Acting through a mediating agency, indirect."
],
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},
{
"glosses": [
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}
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"tags": [
"verb"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈmidi.ət/",
"tags": [
"adjective"
]
},
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Acting through a mediating agency",
"word": "medelbar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Acting through a mediating agency",
"word": "indirekt"
}
],
"word": "mediate"
}
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