participle forms. Meant. See mean. Media.Media is the plural of medium (it retains a Latin plural form) in the sense of devices or modes The news media are out in force Singular uses of media are becoming more common, but they are wrong informal writing. Medium in the sense of one who mediates between realms, especially psychic worlds, has the plural “mediums”: The mediums all agreed that a great flood would come in five years.” Meet, met, met. An irregular verbin its main, past tense, and past participle forms. Met. See meet. Metaphor. A metaphor is a word or phrase that implies or indirectly expresses a comparison or identity. It often enlivens writing by adding an unexpected dimension to words The car, an arrow in ight, sped down the road This stylistic device should be used with caution—many of the obvious comparisons have already appeared so often in writing that they have become trite, or clichéd: The golden orb shed its warming rays on the sunbathers See also simile, style, cliché. Min.The common abbreviation for minute is min It is not used in formal, standard English writing, but it often appears in such special styles as scienti c, sports, or cooking writing. In more technical writing, min can stand for
minimum or various measurements (minim. Consult a dictionary for these more specialized usages of “min.”