to mean
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1.6
- verb
- /miːn/
:
significar
- And what does it mean to write in this form?
- take this to mean
- simply means
- really means
So what else does it mean in this world?
- So what else does it mean in this world?
- There is no single word which means God fearer, right?
- And you know what that means here, Oscar?
- OK, I'm fine with it if that means I can have yours.
- And that confluence means they came to play.
- My world, my UK world is asleep, which means it's quiet.
- Have we forgot what it means to endure hardships?
- And that that is what it means to belong.
- Like what do you mean we're not friends?
- OK, now what does it mean for this paper?
- It's a play on the Sanskrit term chitta, which means loosely mind.
- But that still doesn't mean that we shouldn't look.
- I have this sense of what it means to wake rested.
- Nobody knows what that word means now after.
Examples
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And what do we mean when we say subject?
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When I say a word, I often wonder what it really means.
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So what else does it mean in this world?
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And what does that actually mean to us here?
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Like what do you mean we're not friends?
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I mean, it's not fair.
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Do you know what I mean?
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Well, I'm not sure what that means.
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Doesn't any of this mean anything to you?
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Have we forgot what it means to endure hardships?
Synonyms
165
3.1
To represent something by a sign or short name
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3.7
To be a sign of something, often by a word, action or symbol
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4.4
To be a sign or symbol of something
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.4
A set of JavaScript tools for building web applications using MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node.js
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3.4
The average of numbers found by adding them and dividing by how many there are
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1
3.0
A number you get when you add numbers and divide by how many numbers there are
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1
8.5
Average of the farthest and nearest distances of a planet or satellite from the body it orbits
- Specialized
1
7.4
An average of positive numbers found by multiplying them and taking the root for the number of items
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1
7.5
An average for rates found by dividing the number of values by the sum of 1 divided by each value
- Specialized
Average time for Earth to turn once so the Sun appears in the same place, about 24 hours
- Specialized
Time kept by an imaginary sun moving at a steady speed used for standard clocks
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The average distance of each number from the group's average
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An imaginary sun that moves at a steady speed across the sky to measure time
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Time kept by an imaginary sun that moves evenly across the sky to set clocks
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A special ratio where the small part to the big part equals the big part to the whole
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A very high or very low result usually comes before a result closer to the average
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An average that gives some numbers more importance using assigned values
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An average where some numbers count more than others, for example when scores have different importance
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A type of average where you replace the highest and lowest values with closer values before finding the average
How Clear
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mean in the sense 'to signify' comes from the same old verb meaning 'to have in mind', and it came to be used for words and signs. That's why when we ask 'What does this word mean?' we are asking what it 'signifies'.