Proficient vs. Intermediate

Good at something; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.

Example: ‘He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.’;

An expert.

One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.

Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,

having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;

Example: ‘adept in handicrafts’; ‘an adept juggler’; ‘an expert job’; ‘a good mechanic’; ‘a practiced marksman’; ‘a proficient engineer’; ‘a lesser-known but no less skillful composer’; ‘the effect was achieved by skillful retouching’;

competent or skilled in doing or using something

Example: ‘I was proficient at my job’; ‘she felt reasonably proficient in Italian’;

a person who is proficient

Example: ‘he became a proficient in Latin and Greek’;

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

Anything in an intermediate position.

An intermediary.

(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.

(transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

Example: ‘Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.’;

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.

Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.

To come between; to intervene; to interpose.

A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.

Something that is intermediate.

A compound which is produced in the course of a chemical synthesis, which is not itself the final product, but is used in further reactions which produce the final product; also called synthetic intermediate, intermediate compound or intermediate product; - contrasted to starting material and end product or final product. There may be many different intermediates between the starting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses.

a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;

Example: ‘He interceded in the family dispute’; ‘He mediated a settlement’;

lying between two extremes in time or space or degree;

Example: ‘going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands’; ‘intermediate stages in a process’; ‘intermediate stops on the route’; ‘an intermediate level’; ‘the last time I saw Paris’; ‘the last day of the month’; ‘had the last word’; ‘waited until the last minute’; ‘he raised his voice in a last supreme call’; ‘the last game of the season’; ‘down to his last nickel’;

around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;

Example: ‘an orange of average size’; ‘intermediate capacity’; ‘a plane with intermediate range’; ‘medium bombers’;

coming between two things in time, place, character, etc.

Example: ‘a cooled liquid intermediate between liquid and solid’; ‘an intermediate stage of development’;

having or suitable for a level of knowledge or skill between basic and advanced

Example: ‘an intermediate course’; ‘intermediate skiers’;

an intermediate thing.

a person at an intermediate level of knowledge or skill

Example: ‘photography courses for beginners and intermediates’;

a chemical compound formed by one reaction and then taking part in another, especially during synthesis

Example: ‘a pathway leading to the formation of reactive intermediates’;