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(verb) destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers were meant for you" |
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Related Words: designate, destine, intend, specify |
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(verb) denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means" |
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Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for |
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(verb) mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!" "what do his words intend?" |
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Synonyms: intend |
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Related Words: aim, convey, denote, drive, get, impart, import, refer, represent, signify, spell, stand for, symbolize |
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(satellite adjective) used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a small miserly man" |
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Synonyms: little, mingy, miserly, small, tight |
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(verb) have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything" |
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(satellite adjective) (slang) excellent; "famous for a mean backhand" |
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(noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n |
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Related Words: arithmetic mean, average, expectation, expected value, first moment, geometric mean, harmonic mean, norm |
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: intend, think |
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Related Words: aim, be after, design, plan, propose, purport, purpose, will, wish |
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(satellite adjective) used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt |
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Synonyms: beggarly |
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(satellite adjective) characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"; "told spiteful stories about the fat lady" |
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Synonyms: hateful, spiteful |
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(satellite adjective) having or showing a meanspirited 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" |
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Synonyms: base, meanspirited |
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(satellite adjective) (statistics) 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" |
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Synonyms: average |
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(satellite adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" |
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Synonyms: beggarly |
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(verb) "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" |
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Synonyms: have in mind, think of |
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Related Words: advert, associate, bring up, cite, connect, link, mention, name, refer, relate, tie in |
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(verb) have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" |
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Synonyms: entail, imply |
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Related Words: necessitate |
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