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Means

noun
(pl. means)
1.
How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.  Synonyms: agency, way.  "An example is the best agency of instruction" , "The true way to success"
2.
An instrumentality for accomplishing some end.
3.
Considerable capital (wealth or income).  Synonym: substance.


Mean

verb
(past & past part. meant; pres. part. meaning)
1.
Mean or intend to express or convey.  Synonym: intend.  "What do his words intend?"
2.
Have as a logical consequence.  Synonyms: entail, imply.
3.
Denote or connote.  Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for.  "An example sentence would show what this word means"
4.
Have in mind as a purpose.  Synonyms: intend, think.  "I only meant to help you" , "She didn't think to harm me" , "We thought to return early that night"
5.
Have a specified degree of importance.  "Happiness means everything"
6.
Intend to refer to.  Synonyms: have in mind, think of.  "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"
7.
Destine or designate for a certain purpose.
noun
1.
An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n.  Synonym: mean value.



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"Means" Quotes from Famous Books



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— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... best he might. "How I wish I had known you first," she said. To this Dalrymple was able to make no direct answer. He was wise enough to know that a direct answer might possibly lead him into terrible trouble. He was by no means anxious to find himself "protecting" Mrs Dobbs Broughton from the ruin which her husband had brought ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope
... What if she means to leave me and has just disappeared, not telling me on purpose to punish me? At this thought I went frantically into her room again, and looked on the dressing-table. The ring cases were there in a drawer in the William and Mary looking-glass, but no rings. No, if she had not ...
— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn
... well have all the extries," replied the cabman, sitting down and grasping the decanter with the air of a man who means business. "Per'aps you wouldn't mind squirtin' out the soda, sir, bein' more used ...
— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman
... by this means of material good; the upward push of the people, strengthened by knowledge and by prosperity won through knowledge; the widening and deepening of human sympathy,—these are the ...
— The Chief End of Man • George S. Merriam


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