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[See this in use at forte, mean, and sake]

mean (1)
 transitive verb
 * From Old English mænan, "to mean", "to allude to". Confer Durch meenen, German meinen. Cognate with "mind" and German Minne, "love".

Transitive verb
to mean (meant, meant)
 * 1) To convey, signify, or indicate.
 * 2) * What does this hieroglyph mean?
 * 3) * The sky is red this morning&mdash;does that mean we're in for a storm?
 * 4) To want or intend to convey.
 * 5) * I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.
 * 6) * Say what you mean and mean what you say.
 * 7) To intend; to plan on doing.
 * 8) * I didn't mean to knock your tooth out.
 * 9) * I mean to go to Baddeck this summer.
 * 10) * I meant to take the car in for a smog check, but it slipped my mind.
 * 11) To have conviction in what one says.
 * 12) * Does she really mean what she said to him last night?
 * 13) * Say what you mean and mean what you say.
 * 14) To have intentions of a some kind.
 * 15) * Don't be angry; she meant well.
 * 16) * Someone's coming up. He means business.
 * 17) To result in; to bring about.
 * 18) * One faltering step means certain death.

Translations

 * Dutch: menen
 * Esperanto: voli diri (1); signifi (2), intenci (3)
 * Finnish: tarkoittaa (1, 2), aikoa (3)
 * French: vouloir dire (1); signifier (2)
 * German: meinen (1,4), bedeuten (2), beabsichtigen (3)
 * Indonesian: berarti, artinya, bermaksud, maksudnya
 * Ido: signifikar
 * Interlingua: voler dicer (1); significar (2); intender, haber le intention de (3); mantener un opinion (4)
 * Italian: voler dire (1); significare (2)
 * Japanese: 意味する (いみする, imi-suru), 意図する (いとする, ito-suru)
 * Portuguese: querer dizer (1); significar (2); tencionar, ter a intenção de (3); manter uma opinião, falar sério (4)

mean (2)

 * From Old English gemæne. Confer Dutch gemeen, German gemein, Gothic gamains. Cognate with Latin communis.

Adjective
mean (meaner, meanest)


 * 1) Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
 * 2) * Watch out for her, she's mean. I said good morning to her, and she punched me in the nose.
 * 3) Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
 * 4) * It was mean to steal the girl's piggy bank, but he just had to get uptown and he had no cash of his own.
 * 5) Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
 * 6) * It must have been a mean typhoon that levelled this town.
 * 7) Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
 * 8) * Your mother can roll a mean cigarette.
 * 9) * He hits a mean backhand.
 * 10) Low in quality; inferior.

Related terms

 * meanie
 * meanness
 * meany

Translations

 * Chinese: 卑鄙
 * Dutch: gemeen (1,2), boosaardig (1), gemiddelde (2)
 * Esperanto: kruela (1), malafabla (1), malbonkvalita (2)
 * Finnish: ilkeä (1)
 * French: inférieur (2)
 * German: gemein (1); mittelmäßig (2), böse (1,3)
 * Greek: μέσος m, μέση f, μέσο n
 * Indonesian: buruk hati, kikir, pemarah, rata-rata
 * Interlingua: mal, perverse, contemptibile (1); inferior (2); insuperabile, superior (3)
 * Italian: inferiore (2)
 * Japanese: 意地悪 (いじわる, ijiwaru) (1), 悪い (わるい, warui), 平均 (へいきん, heikin), 平均的 (へいきんてき, heikinteki)
 * Portuguese: mal m & f, perverso m, perversa f (1); inferior m & f (2); médio m, média f (3); insuperável m & f, superior m & f
 * Russian: средний m, средняя f, среднее n
 * Spanish: malo m, mala f

mean (3)

 * From Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin medianus, from medius. Cognate with "mid".

Adjective
mean
 * 1) Having an intermediate value; based on an average; as, mean distance, mean time, mean solar time, mean sun.

Translations

 * Esperanto: meza
 * Finnish: keski-
 * French: moyen
 * German: Mittel-
 * Interlingua: medie
 * Italian: medio

Noun
mean (plural: means)
 * 1) (statistics) An intermediate value based on some measure of central tendency, often an average or the arithmetic mean. (See the related Wikipedia article)
 * 2) See the noun means

Translations

 * Dutch: gemiddelde (1)
 * Finnish: keskiarvo (1)
 * French: moyenne f (1)
 * German: Mittel n (1)
 * Indonesian: rata-rata (1)
 * Interlingua: media (1)
 * Italian: media f (1)
 * Japanese: 平均 (へいきん, heikin) (1), 平均値  (へいきんち, heikinchi) (1)
 * Portuguese: média f (1)

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