"strike a medium" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strikes a medium",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "striking a medium",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "struck a medium",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "struck a medium",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stricken a medium",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "strike<,,struck> a medium",
        "past_ptc2": "stricken a medium",
        "past_ptc2_qual": "rare"
      },
      "expansion": "strike a medium (third-person singular simple present strikes a medium, present participle striking a medium, simple past struck a medium, past participle struck a medium or (rare) stricken a medium)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon, Volume 3, Part 2, Section 6, p. 127",
          "text": "[…] in references, where the consent of the parties leave the referees entire masters of the subject, they commonly discover so much equity and justice on both sides, as induces them to strike a medium, and divide the difference betwixt the parties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 14, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 139",
          "text": "The telephone, as a conveyor of unwelcome messages, strikes a medium between the letter by mail and the face-to-face interview.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 16, in The Left Hand of Darkness, New York: Ace, published 2019",
          "text": "We must compromise as to the heating of the tent. He would keep it hot, I cold, and either’s comfort is the other’s pneumonia. We strike a medium, and he shivers outside his bag, while I swelter in mine;",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To choose or provide a moderate option between two extremes."
      ],
      "id": "en-strike_a_medium-en-verb-UQGrDuak",
      "links": [
        [
          "moderate",
          "moderate"
        ],
        [
          "option",
          "option"
        ],
        [
          "extreme",
          "extreme"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "strike a balance"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strike a medium"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strikes a medium",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "striking a medium",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "struck a medium",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "struck a medium",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stricken a medium",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "strike<,,struck> a medium",
        "past_ptc2": "stricken a medium",
        "past_ptc2_qual": "rare"
      },
      "expansion": "strike a medium (third-person singular simple present strikes a medium, present participle striking a medium, simple past struck a medium, past participle struck a medium or (rare) stricken a medium)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon, Volume 3, Part 2, Section 6, p. 127",
          "text": "[…] in references, where the consent of the parties leave the referees entire masters of the subject, they commonly discover so much equity and justice on both sides, as induces them to strike a medium, and divide the difference betwixt the parties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 14, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 139",
          "text": "The telephone, as a conveyor of unwelcome messages, strikes a medium between the letter by mail and the face-to-face interview.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 16, in The Left Hand of Darkness, New York: Ace, published 2019",
          "text": "We must compromise as to the heating of the tent. He would keep it hot, I cold, and either’s comfort is the other’s pneumonia. We strike a medium, and he shivers outside his bag, while I swelter in mine;",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To choose or provide a moderate option between two extremes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "moderate",
          "moderate"
        ],
        [
          "option",
          "option"
        ],
        [
          "extreme",
          "extreme"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "strike a balance"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strike a medium"
}