Meaning

7 senses
  1. (also)A method or course of action used to achieve some result.

    Mittel

    сре́дствоsrédstvo

  2. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.

    Mittel

    сре́днееsrédneje

  3. (historical)The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.

  4. Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.

  5. Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.

    The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms.

    сре́днееsrédneje

    сере́днєserédnje

    an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

  6. Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.

  7. (obsolete, singular)An intermediate step or intermediate steps.

Examples

4315 sentences
  1. I don't know what you mean.

    Я не знаю, що ти маєш на увазі. — triantafillou

    ruЯ не понимаю, что ты имеешь в виду. — zmoo

    deIch weiß nicht, was du meinst. — kroko

  2. I didn't mean to hurt you.

    Я не хотів тебе образити. — deniko

    ruЯ не хотел причинить тебе боль. — Hellerick

    deIch wollte dir nicht weh tun. — Wolf

  3. I don't get what you mean.

    Не розумію, що ти маєш на увазі. — brambury

    ruЯ не понимаю, что вы имеете в виду. — Biga

    deIch weiß nicht, was du meinst. — kroko

  4. I didn't mean to do that.

    Я не хотів цього робити. — deniko

    ruЯ не собирался этого делать. — Wadimiy

    deDas war nicht meine Absicht. — kroko

  5. I meant it as a joke.

    Це був лише жарт. — shanghainese

    ruЯ просто пошутил. — marafon

    deDas sollte ein Witz sein. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
arithmetic mean:
Русский
By meaning 2
method by which something is done:
the statistical value:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
method by which something is done:

Origin

From Middle English meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin mediā

From Middle English meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin mediānus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”). Cognate with mid. For the musical sense, compare the cognate Italian mezzano. Doublet of median and mizzen.

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Forms

plural: means
Singularmean
Pluralmeans

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n:mean value

Word family

18 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • didn't mean to
  • really mean
  • mean to imply
  • mean to hurt
  • meant to do
  • the meaning of
  • been meaning to
  • really meant what
  • so mean to
  • does that mean
  • mean by that
  • really mean that

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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