mean
suomi-englanti sanakirjamean englannista suomeksi
kurja
keski-, keskiverto, keskiarvoinen
tarkoittaa, tietää
merkitä
loistava
ilkeä
keskiarvo
alhainen
katala
viheliäinen
itara
Verbi
Substantiivi
mean englanniksi
To intend.
To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention. (defdate)
(ux)
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
To have as intentions of a given kind. (defdate)
To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine. (defdate)
To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.
To convey (a meaning).
To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea). (defdate)
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Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify. (defdate)
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Alexander Humez; Nicholas Humez; Rob Flynn| title=Short Cuts: A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication| pageurl=http://books.google.com.br/books?id=UONLUQJoxwwC&pg=PA33v=onepage&f=false| isbn=9780195389135| page=33| publisher=Oxford University Press US
Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says). (defdate)
To cause or produce (a given result); to about (a given result). (defdate)
(quote-journal)But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
To be of some level of importance.
''That little dog meant everything to me.''
''Formality and titles mean nothing in their circle.''
To lament.
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1385|author=William Langland|title=Piers Plowman|section=III
1560 (1677), Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. iii. (1677), page 144:
- They were forced to mean our estate to the Queen of England.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1845|author=Wodrow Society|title=Select Biographies
Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
(RQ:Gibbon Roman Empire)
(quote-song) |title=(w) |year=1865
(syn)
Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
(ant)
(RQ:Dryden Indian Emperour)
(quote-av)|passage=(smallcaps) Your foe has bloodied you, sir knight. Will you concede defeat? You fight too well to die so mean a death. Will you not throw in your lot with me instead?(smallcaps) That would be an even meaner death, Your Grace.
(RQ:Allingham China Governess)
Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
(RQ:Philips Cyder)
Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing will towards another.
(quote-av)in the context of ships available ''at the time'', they ''were'' aircraft carrier - fleet carriers. Now, granted, they may not have been the biggest and largest and ''meanest'' fleet carriers around, but they certainly ''were'' fleet carriers.
Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
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Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
(RQ:Burton Melancholy), II.ii.2:
- I have declared in the causes what harm costiveness hath done in procuring this disease; if it be so noxious, the opposite must needs be good, or mean at least, as indeed it is ….
(RQ:Sidney Arcadia)
(RQ:Milton Of Education)
A method or course of action used to achieve some result. (defdate)
(RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes)
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1812|author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge|title=Essays
{{quote-text|en|year=1860|author=William Hamilton|title=Lectures on Metaphysics
{{quote-journal|en|title=Rival visions|journal=The Economist|date=14 Apr 2011
An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
''a.'' 1563, Thomas Harding, "To the Reader", in ''The Works of John Jewel'' (1845 ed.)
- Verily in this treatise this hath been mine only purpose; and the mean to bring the same to effect hath been such as whereby I studied to profit wholesomely, not to please delicately.
{{quote-text|en|year=1606|title=The Trials of Robert Winter, Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Rob. Keyes, Thomas Bates, and Sir Everard Digby, at Westminster, for High Treason, being Conspirators in the Gunpowder-Plot
''a.'' 1623, Webster|John Webster, ''Duchess of Malfi|The Duchess of Malfi''
- Apply desperate physic: / We must not now use balsamum, but fire, / The smarting cupping-glass, for that's the mean / To purge infected blood, such blood as hers.
Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium. (defdate)
1875, William Smith and Samuel Cheetham, editors, ''A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities'', Brown and Company|Little, Brown and Company, volume 1, page 10, s.v. ''Accentus Ecclesiasticus'',
- It presents a sort of mean between speech and song, continually inclining towards the latter, never altogether leaving its hold on the former; it is speech, though always attuned speech, in passages of average interest and importance; it is song, though always distinct and articulate song, in passages demanding more fervid utterance.
The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument. (defdate)
{{quote-book|en|year=1624|author=John Smith|title=Generall Historie|publisher=Kupperman|year_published=1988|page=147
The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the mean. (defdate)
Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a of central tendency.
1997, (w), ''The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy'',http://books.google.com/books?id=5Lp_p6bLD2IC World Bank Publications, (ISBN), page 51:
- Note that (1.41) is simply the probability-weighted mean without any explicit allowance for the stratification; each observation is weighted by its inflation factor and the total divided by the total of the inflation factors for the survey.
{{quote-book|en|year=2002|author=Clifford A. Pickover|title=The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4qA2qZhVb9AC|page=246|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521016780
{{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=P. S. Bullen|title=Handbook of Means and Their Inequalities|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GybdNuNsarIC|page=251|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4020-1522-9
Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as ''2'' and ''3'' in ''1:2=3:6''.
{{quote-text|en|year=1825|translator=John Farrar|title=An Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic|author=Silvestre François Lacroix|section=third edition, page 102
{{quote-book|en|year=1999|author=Dawn B. Sova|title=How to Solve Word Problems in Geometry|publisher=McGraw-Hill,|isbn=007134652X|page=85
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Carolyn C. Wheater|title=Homework Helpers: Geometry|publisher=Career Press,|isbn=1564147215|page=99
mean (gl)
to be mean towards someone
(es-verb form of)