 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mean
adjective
1: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected
value; "the average income in New England is below
that of the nation"; "of average height for his age";
"the mean annual rainfall" [syn: {average}, {mean(a)}]
2: characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean
mood" [syn: {hateful}]
3: having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;
"that liberal obedience without which your army would be a
base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage";
"chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare;
"something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in
politics" [syn: {base}, {meanspirited}]
4: excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"
5: marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence
in the slums"; "a mean hut" [syn: {beggarly}]
6: used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative
of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly
tip" [syn: {mingy}, {miserly}, {tight}]
7: used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve
contempt [syn: {beggarly}]
noun: an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of
the numbers and dividing by some function of n [syn: {mean
value}]
verb
1: mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand
what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" [syn: {intend}]
2: have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means
that we have to stop taking long showers" [syn: {entail},
{imply}]
3: denote or connote; "'maison' means 'house' in French"; "An
example sentence would show what this word means" [syn: {intend},
{signify}, {stand for}]
4: have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant
to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought
to return early that night" [syn: {intend}, {think}]
5: have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means
nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"
6: intend to refer to; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk
about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about
people who gossip!" [syn: {think of}, {have in mind}]
7: destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers
were meant for you"
[also: {meant}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
meant
See {mean}
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mean \Mean\ (m[=e]n), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Meant} (m[e^]nt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Meaning}.] [OE. menen, AS. m[=ae]nan to recite,
tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. m[=e]nian to have in mind,
mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, Sw.
mena, Dan. mene, and to E. mind. [root]104. See {Mind}, and
cf. {Moan}.]
1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to
intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do?
What mean ye by this service ? --Ex. xii. 26.
Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto
good. --Gen.
1. 20.
I am not a Spaniard
To say that it is yours and not to mean it.
--Longfellow.
2. To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.
What mean these seven ewe lambs ? --Gen. xxi.
29.
Go ye, and learn what that meaneth. --Matt. ix.
13.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Meant \Meant\,
imp. & p. p. of {Mean}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "meant":
advised, aimed, aimed at, assumed, calculated, conscious,
considered, contemplated, deliberate, deliberated, designed,
envisaged, envisioned, hinted, implicated, implied, indicated,
inferred, intended, intentional, intimated, involved, knowing,
meditated, of design, planned, presumed, presupposed, projected,
proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, studied, suggested,
supposed, teleological, voluntary, willful, witting
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