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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MEAN, a. [L. communis, vulgus, minor and minuo.]
1. Wanting dignity; low in rank or birth; as a man of mean parentage,mean birth or origin.
2. Wanting dignity of mind; low minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless.
Can you imagine I so mean could prove,
To save my life by changing of my love?
3. Contemptible; despicable.
The Roman legions and great Caesar found
Our fathers no mean foes.
4. Of little value; low in worth or estimation; worthy of little or no regard.
We fast, not to please men, nor to promote any mean worldly interest.
5. Of little value; humble; poor; as a mean abode; a mean dress.
MEAN, a. [L. medium, medius.]
1. Middle; at an equal distance from the extremes; as the means distance; the mean proportion between quantities; the mean ratio.
According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly.
2. Intervening; intermediate; coming between; as in the mean time or while.
MEAN, n. The middle point or place; the middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium. Observe the golden mean.
There is a mean in all things.
But no authority of gods or men
Allow of any mean in poesy.
1. Intervening time; interval of time; interim; meantime.
And in the mean, vouchsafe her honorable tomb.
Here is an omission of time or while.
2. Measure; regulation. [Not in use.]
3. Instrument; that which is used to effect an object; the medium through which something is done.
The virtuous conversation of christians was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ.
In this sense, means, in the plural,is generally used, and often with a definitive and verb in the singular.
By this means he had them more at vantage.
A good character,when established, should not be rested on as an end, but employed as a means of doing good.
4. Means, in the plural, income, revenue, resources, substance or estate, considered as the instrument of effecting any purpose. He would have built a house, but he wanted means.
Your means are slender.
5. Instrument of action or performance.
By all means, without fail. Go, by all means.
By no means, not at all; certainly not; not in any degree.
The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other.
By no manner of means, by no means; not the least.
By any means, possibly; at all.
If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Philippians 3.
Meantime
Meanwhile, in the intervening time. [In this use of these words there is an omission of in or in the; in the meantime.]
MEAN, v.t. pret. and pp. meant; pronounced ment. [L. mens; Eng.mind; L. intendo, propono.]
1. To have in the mind, view or contemplation; to intend.
What mean you by this service? Exodus 12.
2. To intend; to purpose; to design, with reference to a future act.
Ye thought evil against me, but God meant it for good. Genesis 1.
3. To signify; to indicate.
What mean these seven ewe lambs? Genesis 21.
What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? 2 Samuel 4.
Go ye, and learn what that meaneth-- Matthew 9.
MEAN, v.i. To have thought or ideas; or to have meaning.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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]
2: characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood" [syn: hateful, mean]
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, mean, 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, mean]
6: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" [syn: mean, mingy, miserly, tight]
7: (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt [syn: beggarly, mean]
8: of no value or worth; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic" [syn: bastardly, mean] n
1: an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n [syn: mean, mean value] v
1: mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" [syn: mean, intend]
2: have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" [syn: entail, imply, mean]
3: denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means" [syn: mean, 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, mean, 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, mean]
7: destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers were meant for you"

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (meant; meaning) Etymology: Middle English menen, from Old English m?nan; akin to Old High German meinen to have in mind, Old Church Slavic m?niti to mention Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to have in the mind as a purpose ; intend <she means to win> — sometimes used interjectionally with I, chiefly in informal speech for emphasis <he throws, I mean, hard> or to introduce a phrase restating the point of a preceding phrase <we try to answer what we can, but I mean we're not God — Bobbie Ann Mason> b. to design for or destine to a specified purpose or future <I was meant to teach> 2. to serve or intend to convey, show, or indicate ; signify <a red sky means rain> 3. to have importance to the degree of <health means everything> 4. to direct to a particular individual intransitive verb to have an intended purpose <he means well> • meaner noun II. adjective Etymology: Middle English mene, from imene common, shared, from Old English gem?ne; akin to Old High German gimeini common, Latin communis common, munus service, gift, Sanskrit mayate he exchanges Date: 14th century 1. lacking distinction or eminence ; humble 2. lacking in mental discrimination ; dull 3. a. of poor shabby inferior quality or status <mean city streets> b. worthy of little regard ; contemptible — often used in negative constructions as a term of praise <no mean feat> 4. lacking dignity or honor ; base 5. a. penurious, stingy b. characterized by petty selfishness or malice c. causing trouble or bother ; vexatious d. excellent, effective <plays a mean trumpet> <a lean, mean athlete> 6. ashamed 1b • meanness noun Synonyms: mean, ignoble, abject, sordid mean being below the normal standards of human decency and dignity. mean suggests having such repellent characteristics as small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity <mean and petty satire>. ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit <an ignoble scramble after material possessions>. abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility <abject poverty>. sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness <a sordid story of murder and revenge>. III. adjective Etymology: Middle English mene, from Anglo-French mene, meiene, from Latin medianus — more at median Date: 14th century 1. occupying a middle position ; intermediate in space, order, time, kind, or degree 2. occupying a position about midway between extremes; especially being the mean of a set of values ; average <the mean temperature> 3. serving as a means ; intermediary Synonyms: see average IV. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) something intervening or intermediate (2) a middle point between extremes b. a value that lies within a range of values and is computed according to a prescribed law: as (1) arithmetic mean (2) expected value c. either of the middle two terms of a proportion 2. plural but singular or plural in construction something useful or helpful to a desired end 3. plural resources available for disposal; especially material resources affording a secure life

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v.tr. (past and past part. meant) 1 a (often foll. by to + infin.) have as one's purpose or intention; have in mind (they really mean mischief; I didn't mean to break it). b (foll. by by) have as a motive in explanation (what do you mean by that?). 2 (often in passive) design or destine for a purpose (mean it to be used; mean it for a stopgap; is meant to be a gift). 3 intend to convey or indicate or refer to (a particular thing or notion) (I mean we cannot go; I mean Richmond in Surrey). 4 entail, involve (it means catching the early train). 5 (often foll. by that + clause) portend, signify (this means trouble; your refusal means that we must look elsewhere). 6 (of a word) have as its explanation in the same language or its equivalent in another language. 7 (foll. by to) be of some specified importance to (a person), esp. as a source of benefit or object of affection etc. (that means a lot to me). Phrases and idioms: mean business be in earnest. mean it not be joking or exaggerating. mean to say really admit (usu. in interrog.: do you mean to say you have lost it?). mean well (often foll. by to, towards, by) have good intentions. Etymology: OE mænan f. WG, rel. to MIND 2. adj. 1 niggardly; not generous or liberal. 2 (of an action) ignoble, small-minded. 3 (of a person's capacity, understanding, etc.) inferior, poor. 4 (of housing) not imposing in appearance; shabby. 5 a malicious, ill-tempered. b US vicious or aggressive in behaviour. 6 colloq. skilful, formidable (is a mean fighter). 7 colloq. ashamed (feel mean). Phrases and idioms: no mean a very good (that is no mean achievement). mean White = poor White. Derivatives: meanly adv. meanness n. Etymology: OE mæne, gemæne f. Gmc 3. n. & adj. --n. 1 a condition, quality, virtue, or course of action equally removed from two opposite (usu. unsatisfactory) extremes. 2 Math. a the term or one of the terms midway between the first and last terms of an arithmetical or geometrical etc. progression (2 and 8 have the arithmetic mean 5 and the geometric mean 4). b the quotient of the sum of several quantities and their number, the average. --adj. 1 (of a quantity) equally far from two extremes. 2 calculated as a mean. Phrases and idioms: mean free path the average distance travelled by a gas molecule etc. between collisions. mean sea level the sea level halfway between the mean levels of high and low water. mean sun an imaginary sun moving in the celestial equator at the mean rate of the real sun, used in calculating solar time. mean time the time based on the movement of the mean sun. Etymology: ME f. AF meen f. OF meien, moien f. L medianus MEDIAN

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mean Mean, a. [Compar. Meaner; superl. Meanest.] [OE. mene, AS. m?ne wicked; akin to m[=a]n, a., wicked, n., wickedness, OS. m?n wickedness, OHG. mein, G. meineid perjury, Icel. mein harm, hurt, and perh. to AS. gem?ne common, general, D. gemeen, G. gemein, Goth. gam['a]ins, and L. communis. The AS. gem?ne prob. influenced the meaning.] 1. Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble. ``Of mean parentage.'' --Sir P. Sidney. The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself. --Is. ii. 9. 2. Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive. Can you imagine I so mean could prove, To save my life by changing of my love ? --Dryden. 3. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable. The Roman legions and great C[ae]sar found Our fathers no mean foes. --J. Philips. 4. Of poor quality; as, mean fare. 5. Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality. Note: Mean is sometimes used in the formation of compounds, the sense of which is obvious without explanation; as, meanborn, mean-looking, etc. Syn: Base; ignoble; abject; beggarly; wretched; degraded; degenerate; vulgar; vile; servile; menial; spiritless; groveling; slavish; dishonorable; disgraceful; shameful; despicable; contemptible; paltry; sordid. See Base.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mean Mean, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Meant; 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. ?. 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 me?neth. --Matt. ix. 13.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mean Mean, v. i. To have a purpose or intention. [Rare, except in the phrase to mean well, or ill.] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mean Mean, a. [OE. mene, OF. meiien, F. moyen, fr. L. medianus that is in the middle, fr. medius; akin to E. mid. See Mid.] 1. Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes. Being of middle age and a mean stature. --Sir. P. Sidney. 2. Intermediate in excellence of any kind. According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly. --Milton. 3. (Math.) Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day. Mean distance (of a planet from the sun) (Astron.), the average of the distances throughout one revolution of the planet, equivalent to the semi-major axis of the orbit. Mean error (Math. Phys.), the average error of a number of observations found by taking the mean value of the positive and negative errors without regard to sign. Mean-square error, or Error of the mean square (Math. Phys.), the error the square of which is the mean of the squares of all the errors; -- called also, especially by European writers, mean error. Mean line. (Crystallog.) Same as Bisectrix. Mean noon, noon as determined by mean time. Mean proportional (between two numbers) (Math.), the square root of their product. Mean sun, a fictitious sun supposed to move uniformly in the equator so as to be on the meridian each day at mean noon. Mean time, time as measured by an equable motion, as of a perfect clock, or as reckoned on the supposition that all the days of the year are of a mean or uniform length, in contradistinction from apparent time, or that actually indicated by the sun, and from sidereal time, or that measured by the stars.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mean Mean, n. 1. That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure. But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. --Bacon. There is a mean in all things. --Dryden. The extremes we have mentioned, between which the wellinstracted Christian holds the mean, are correlatives. --I. Taylor. 2. (Math.) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the square root of the product of the quantities. 3. That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument. Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ. --Hooker. You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. --Coleridge. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. --Sir W. Hamilton. Note: In this sense the word is usually employed in the plural form means, and often with a singular attribute or predicate, as if a singular noun. By this means he had them more at vantage. --Bacon. What other means is left unto us. --Shak. 4. pl. Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great. --Shak. 5. (Mus.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part. [Obs.] The mean is drowned with your unruly base. --Shak. 6. Meantime; meanwhile. [Obs.] --Spenser. 7. A mediator; a go-between. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. He wooeth her by means and by brokage. --Chaucer. By all means, certainly; without fail; as, go, by all means. By any means, in any way; possibly; at all. If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. --Phil. iii. ll. By no means, or By no manner of means, not at all; certainly not; not in any degree. The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

I. VERB USES (means, meaning, meant) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Please look at category 19 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword. 1. If you want to know what a word, code, signal, or gesture means, you want to know what it refers to or what its message is. In modern Welsh, 'glas' means 'blue'... The red signal means you can shoot. VERB: no cont, V n, V that 2. If you ask someone what they mean, you are asking them to explain exactly what or who they are referring to or what they are intending to say. Do you mean me?... I think he means that he does not want this marriage to turn out like his friend's. VERB: no cont, V n, V that 3. If something means something to you, it is important to you in some way. The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him... It would mean a lot to them to win. VERB: no cont, V amount to n, it V amount to-inf, also V amount 4. If one thing means another, it shows that the second thing exists or is true. An enlarged prostate does not necessarily mean cancer... Just because he has a beard doesn't necessarily mean he's a hippy. VERB: no cont, V n, V that 5. If one thing means another, the first thing leads to the second thing happening. It would almost certainly mean the end of NATO... The change will mean that the country no longer has full diplomatic relations with other states. VERB: no cont, V n, V that 6. If doing one thing means doing another, it involves doing the second thing. Managing well means communicating well. VERB: V -ing 7. If you say that you mean what you are saying, you are telling someone that you are serious about it and are not joking, exaggerating, or just being polite. He says you're fired if you're not back at work on Friday. And I think he meant it... VERB: no cont, V n 8. If you say that someone meant to do something, you are saying that they did it deliberately. I didn't mean to hurt you... I can see why you believed my letters were threatening but I never meant them to be. = intend VERB: no cont, V to-inf, V n to-inf 9. If you say that someone did not mean any harm, offence, or disrespect, you are saying that they did not intend to upset or offend people or to cause problems, even though they may in fact have done so. I'm sure he didn't mean any harm... = intend VERB: no cont, with brd-neg, V n 10. If you mean to do something, you intend or plan to do it. Summer is the perfect time to catch up on the new books you meant to read... = intend VERB: no cont, V to-inf 11. If you say that something was meant to happen, you believe that it was made to happen by God or fate, and did not just happen by chance. John was constantly reassuring me that we were meant to be together. VERB: usu passive, no cont, be V-ed to-inf 12. You say 'I mean' when making clearer something that you have just said. (SPOKEN) It was his idea. Gordon's, I mean... PHRASE: PHR with cl 13. You can use 'I mean' to introduce a statement, especially one that justifies something that you have just said. (SPOKEN) I'm sure he wouldn't mind. I mean, I was the one who asked him... PHRASE: PHR with cl 14. You say I mean when correcting something that you have just said. (SPOKEN) It was law or classics–I mean English or classics. PHRASE: PHR with cl 15. If you know what it means to do something, you know everything that is involved in a particular activity or experience, especially the effect that it has on you. I know what it means to lose a child under such tragic circumstances. PHRASE: Vs inflect, oft PHR to-inf 16. If a name, word, or phrase means something to you, you have heard it before and you know what it refers to. 'Oh, Gairdner,' he said, as if that meant something to him... PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n 17. If you say that someone means well, you mean they are trying to be kind and helpful, even though they might be causing someone problems or upsetting them. I know you mean well, but I can manage by myself. PHRASE: V inflects 18. You use 'you mean' in a question to check that you have understood what someone has said. What accident? You mean Christina's?... 'What if I had said no?' 'About the apartment, you mean?' PHRASE: PHR with cl 19. to mean business: see business if you know what I mean: see know see also meaning, means, meant II. ADJECTIVE USES (meaner, meanest) 1. If you describe someone as mean, you are being critical of them because they are unwilling to spend much money or to use very much of a particular thing. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use cheap, stingy) Don't be mean with fabric, otherwise curtains will end up looking skimpy. = stingy ADJ [disapproval] • meanness This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you describe an amount as mean, you are saying that it is very small. (BRIT) ...the meanest grant possible from the local council. ADJ [disapproval] 3. If someone is being mean, they are being unkind to another person, for example by not allowing them to do something. The little girls had locked themselves in upstairs because Mack had been mean to them... I'd feel mean saying no. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ to n • meanly He had been behaving very meanly to his girlfriend. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj 4. If you describe a person or animal as mean, you are saying that they are very bad-tempered and cruel. (mainly AM) ...the meanest fighter in the world. ADJ 5. If you describe a place as mean, you think that it looks poor and dirty. He was raised on the mean streets of the central market district of Panama City. ADJ: usu ADJ n 6. You can use no mean in expressions such as 'no mean writer' and 'no mean golfer' to indicate that someone does something well. (INFORMAL) She was no mean performer on a variety of other instruments... PHRASE: PHR n [approval] 7. You can use no mean in expressions such as 'no mean achievement' and 'no mean task' to indicate that someone has done something they deserve to be proud of. To destroy 121 enemy aircraft is no mean record... PHRASE: PHR n III. NOUN USE The mean is a number that is the average of a set of numbers. Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean. ...the mean score for 26-year-olds. = average N-SING: the N, oft N n see also means

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

men: The noun "meaning" (Da 8:15 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "I sought to understand"; and 1Co 14:11) is synonymous with "signification" but in 1 Macc 15:4 the King James Version it expresses "purpose" (the Revised Version (British and American) "I am minded to land"). The noun "mean" in Hebrew always occurs in the plural, and is generally used in the sense of "agency," "instrument" (compare 1Ki 10:29, etc.). the Revised Version (British and American) very frequently changes, King James Version: The Wisdom of Solomon 8:13, "because of her"; 2Th 2:3, "in any wise"; Lu 8:36, "how"; Pr 6:26, "on account of"; Re 13:14, "by reason of" (compare also 2Th 3:16; Joh 9:21). Heb 9:15 (the King James Version "that by means of death") translates literally, "that a death having taken place," from ginomai, "to become," "to happen." Ac 18:21 the King James Version, "I must by all means keep this feast," is omitted in the Revised Version (British and American) in harmony with several cursives, the Vulgate, and some other versions

The adjective "mean" is used in the sense of "common," "humble" ('adham, "man"; compare Isa 2:9; 5:15; 31:8 omits "mean"). It is also used in the sense of "obscure" (Pr 22:29, chashokh, "obscure"; asemos, literally, "without a mark," "unknown," Ac 21:39). "Mean" is found in expressions like "in the meanwhile" (the King James Version 1Ki 18:45, the Revised Version (British and American) "little while"; Joh 4:31; Ro 2:15, the Revised Version (British and American) "one with another"); "in the meantime" (1 Macc 11:41 the King James Version; Lu 12:1); and "in the mean season" the King James Version (1 Macc 11:14; 15:15). The adverb "meanly" is found (2 Macc 15:38) in the sense of "moderately."

The verb "mean" expresses purpose (Isa 3:15; 10:7; Ge 50:20, etc.). In some cases the Revised Version (British and American) renders literal translation: Ac 27:2, "was about to sail" (the King James Version "meaning to sail"); compare Ac 21:13; 2Co 8:13. In other instances the idea of "to mean" is "to signify," "to denote" (1Sa 4:6; Ge 21:29; Mt 9:13, etc.). Lu 15:26 translates literally, "what these things might be." In Ex 12:26 the sense of "mean ye" is "to have in mind."

A. L. Breslich

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Middle, medium, average, moderate. 2. Intermediate, intervening, coming between. 3. Ignoble, plebeian, low, ordinary, common, vulgar, coarse, humble. 4. Base, abject, grovelling, vile, contemptible, despicable, servile, beggarly, sneaking, dirty, scurvy, shabby, sorry, disingenuous, unfair, rascally, pitiful, base-minded, low-minded, dishonorable, spiritless. 5. Sordid, penurious, miserly, stingy, niggardly, illiberal, ungenerous, selfish, narrow, mercenary, narrow-minded, parsimonious. 6. Small, little, paltry, insignificant, diminutive, petty, poor, wretched, contemptible, despicable. II. n. 1. Medium, mediocrity, moderation, measure, middle state, middle course. 2. Average. 3. Instrument, method, mode, way, means, agency, instrumentality, measure. III. v. a. 1. Intend, signify, contemplate. 2. Intend, purpose, design. 3. Signify, indicate, imply, denote, purport, import, express. IV. v. n. Intend, purpose, design.

Moby Thesaurus

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