Definition: an occupation for which you are especially well suited
Usage: in law he found his true metier
Similar words: business, job, line, line of work, occupation
Definition: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Usage: he's not in my line of business
Synonyms: medium
Definition: an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
Similar words: communicating, communication
Definition: the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information
Usage: they could not act without official communication from Moscow
Synonyms: medium
Definition: a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
Similar words: instrumentality, instrumentation
Definition: an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end
Synonyms: medium, mass medium
Definition: (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
Similar words: transmission
Definition: communication by means of transmitted signals
Synonyms: medium
Definition: the surrounding environment
Usage: fish require an aqueous medium
Similar words: environment, environs, surround, surroundings
Definition: the area in which something exists or lives
Usage: the country--the flat agricultural surround
Synonyms: medium, sensitive, spiritualist
Definition: someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
Usage: he consulted several mediums
Similar words: psychic
Definition: a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
Synonyms: medium
Definition: a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position
Usage: a happy medium
Similar words: state
Definition: the way something is with respect to its main attributes
Usage: the current state of knowledge; his state of health; in a weak financial state
Synonyms: medium
Definition: an intervening substance through which something is achieved
Usage: the dissolving medium is called a solvent
Similar words: substance
Definition: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
Usage: DNA is the substance of our genes
Synonyms: medium, culture medium
Definition: (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
Definition: any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
Synonyms: medium
Definition: (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
Similar words: substance
Definition: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
Usage: DNA is the substance of our genes
Synonyms: medium
Definition: a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
Similar words: liquid
Definition: a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
Synonyms: medium
Definition: (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside
Similar words: cooked
Definition: having been prepared for eating by the application of heat
Synonyms: average, intermediate, medium
Definition: around the middle of a scale of evaluation
Usage: an orange of average size; intermediate capacity; medium bombers
Similar words: moderate
Definition: being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
Usage: moderate prices; a moderate income; a moderate fine; moderate demands; a moderate estimate; a moderate eater; moderate success; a kitchen of moderate size; the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart