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| advertise |
to use public media to promote a product or idea. [1/4 definitions] |
| airwaves |
the media used for transmission of radio and television signals. |
| artist |
one who works professionally in visual media such as drawing, painting, and photography. [1/3 definitions] |
| buzzword |
a fashionable, short-lived word or phrase that originates either in media use or in a specialized group, and that is intended to impress or exclude the hearer, because of its apparent profundity or significance. |
| current affairs |
events of a political, societal, or economic nature that are occurring in the present time and are often covered in the media. |
| document |
a file made by a computer containing information in the form of text or media. [1/3 definitions] |
| electronics |
(used with a sing. verb) the science that is concerned with the flow of electrons in various physical media, and with their properties and uses. [1/2 definitions] |
| Facebook |
a U.S. corporation that developed a social media service in 2004. Users of this service can post status updates and exchange messages with a designated group of other users called "friends." [1/2 definitions] |
| factoid |
a false or half-true statement or idea, often accepted as fact because of wide circulation and frequent repetition, as in print and electronic media. |
| forum |
a meeting place or media channel for open discussion of issues. [1/4 definitions] |
| fourth estate |
the news media of a country, considered as an entity with political power. |
| friend |
a member of a person's social media group. [2/5 definitions] |
| global village |
the world considered as a single community, made so by modern air travel, mass media, and the like. |
| hashtag |
a word or phase preceded by the hash sign (#), used in social media to identify or search for a particular topic. |
| journalism |
the work of collecting news and information and giving it out to the public through newspapers, magazines, radio, television, or other media. |
| like2 |
to show approval of content on a social media website by clicking a button. [2/8 definitions] |
| Magi |
members of a class of Zoroastrian priests of ancient Media and Persia who were believed to possess supernatural powers. [1/2 definitions] |
| magus |
a member of a Zoroastrian priestly class of ancient Media and Persia. [1/3 definitions] |
| maltose |
a water-soluble sugar formed by malt enzymes acting on starch, used in brewing and distilling, as a nutrient or sweetener in foods, and in culture media. |
| masscult |
(informal) the artificial, trivialized, commercialized culture apparent in artifacts created for the masses and made popular by the mass media. |
| media1 |
the means of distributing information to large numbers of people, through newspapers, magazines, radio, and television; mass media. [1/2 definitions] |
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