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Means

noun

(pl. means)

1.

How a result is obtained or an end is achieved. Synonyms: agency, way. "An example is the best agency of instruction" , "The true way to success"

2.

An instrumentality for accomplishing some end.

3.

Considerable capital (wealth or income). Synonym: substance.

Mean

verb

(past & past part. meant; pres. part. meaning)

1.

Mean or intend to express or convey. Synonym: intend. "What do his words intend?"

2.

Have as a logical consequence. Synonyms: entail, imply.

3.

Denote or connote. Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for. "An example sentence would show what this word means"

4.

Have in mind as a purpose. Synonyms: intend, think. "I only meant to help you" , "She didn't think to harm me" , "We thought to return early that night"

5.

Have a specified degree of importance. "Happiness means everything"

6.

Intend to refer to. Synonyms: have in mind, think of. "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"

7.

Destine or designate for a certain purpose.

noun

1.

An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n. Synonym: mean value.

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"Means" Quotes from Famous Books

... means. It has only taught us how to make her obey us. We cannot create Life. We cannot develop it. But we can control Nature's processes of development as we will. Can you deprecate such a power? Would not your own land be happier without ...

— Mizora: A Prophecy - A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch • Mary E. Bradley

... direct, or what is there in it of good to begin with? Apparently it takes possession of such women as have set up each herself for the object of her worship: she cannot then rest from the effort to bring as many as possible to worship at the same shrine; and to this end will use means as deserving of the fire as ...

— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald

... The only means of tempering the wind to the shorn lamb lay in speaking first to Honor; and on that idea Wyndham unconditionally turned his back. Mrs Desmond had brought this thing upon herself. She must face the consequences as ...

— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver

... kingdoms, but to discover new realms. Born probably in 1446, in the year 1470 he married the daughter of an Italian navigator living in Lisbon; and, inheriting with her some valuable Portuguese charts and maritime journals, he settled in Lisbon and took up chart-making as a means of livelihood. Being thus trained in both the art and the science of navigation, his active mind seized upon the most interesting theme of the day. His studies and experience convinced him that the Cipango of Marco Polo could be reached by sailing directly ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI • John Lord

... we took stock together of ways and means. We see eye to eye now on every point. Just before lunch we heard the transport Manitou had been attacked by a Turkish torpedo boat from Smyrna. The first wireless came in saying the enemy had made a bad shot and only a few men had been drowned lowering the boats. Admiral ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

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