mean [v1: Mean, v2: Meant, v3: Meant]
Kelime Anlamı :

1. kastetmek.
2. cimri.
3. demek istemek.
4. ifade etmek.
5. anlamına gelmek.
6. 1. ... anlamına gelmek: Does that mean she'll be late? Yani geç mi gelecek? To the egress means to the exit. Mahrece demek çıkışa.
7. orta.
8. demek olmak.
9. adi.
10. ortalama.
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Zıt Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1. to be used to convey; denote: "'the question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things'” ( lewis Carroll).
2. to act as a symbol of; signify or represent: in this poem, the budding flower means youth.
3. to intend to convey or indicate: "no one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous” ( henry adams).
4. to have as a purpose or an intention; intend: I meant to go running this morning, but I overslept.
5. to design, intend, or destine for a certain purpose or end: a building that was meant for storage; a student who was meant to be a scientist.
6. to have as a consequence; bring about: friction means heat.
7. to have the importance or value of: the opinions of the critics meant nothing to him. she meant so much to me.
8. to have intentions of a specified kind; be disposed: they mean well but lack tact.
9. mean business informal to be in earnest.
10. selfish in a petty way; unkind.
11. cruel, spiteful, or malicious.
12. ignoble; base: a mean motive.
13. miserly; stingy.
14. low in quality or grade; inferior.
15. low in value or amount; paltry: paid no mean amount for the new shoes.
16. common or poor in appearance; shabby: "the rowhouses had been darkened by the rain and looked meaner and grimmer than ever” ( anne tyler).
17. low in social status; of humble origins.
18. humiliated or ashamed.
19. in poor physical condition; sick or debilitated.
20. extremely unpleasant or disagreeable: the meanest storm in years.
21. informal ill-tempered.
22. slang hard to cope with; difficult or troublesome: he throws a mean fast ball.
23. slang excellent; skillful: she plays a mean game of bridge.
24. something having a position, quality, or condition midway between extremes; a medium.
25. mathematics A number that typifies a set of numbers, such as a geometric mean or an arithmetic mean.
26. mathematics the average value of a set of numbers.
27. logic the middle term in a syllogism.
28. A method, a course of action, or an instrument by which an act can be accomplished or an end achieved.
29. money, property, or other wealth: you ought to live within your means.
30. great wealth: a woman of means.
31. occupying a middle or intermediate position between two extremes.
32. intermediate in size, extent, quality, time, or degree; medium.
33. by all means without fail; certainly.
34. by any means in any way possible; to any extent: not by any means an easy opponent.
35. by means of with the use of; owing to: they succeeded by means of patience and sacrifice.
36. by no means in no sense; certainly not: this remark by no means should be taken lightly.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble.
2. wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless.
3. of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
4. of poor quality.
5. penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal.
6. occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.
7. intermediate in excellence of any kind.
8. average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation
9. 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.
10. 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 nth root of the product of the n quantities being averaged.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.
14. meantime; meanwhile.
15. A mediator; a go-between.
16. to have a purpose or intention.
17. to have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design
18. to signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. to have in mind, view, or contemplation; intend; hence, to purpose or design.
2. to signify, or be intended to signify; indicate; import; denote.
3. to mention; tell; express.
4. to be minded or disposed; have intentions of some kind: usually joined with an adverb: as, he means well.
5. to have thought or ideas; have meaning.
6. to speak; talk.
7. common; general.
8. of a common or low origin, grade, quality, etc.; common; humble: as, a man of mean parentage; mean birth or origin; a mean abode.
9. characteristic of or commonly pertaining to persons or things of low degree; common; inferior; poor; shabby: as, a mean appearance; mean dress.
10. without dignity of mind; destitute of honor; low-minded; spiritless; base.
11. niggardly; penurious; miserly; stingy.—
12. of little value or account; low in worth or estimation; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
13. disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; “small.” [colloq.]
14. abject. low, etc. (see abject), paltry. see list under low.
15. niggardly, stingy, etc. (see penurious); sordid, selfish, close.
16. occupying a middle position; midway between two extremes; median: now chiefly in certain technical uses. see phrases below.
17. of medium size, extent, etc.; medium, middling, or moderate.
18. coming between two events or points of time; intervening; intermediate: only in the phrase in the mean time or while.
19. intermediate in a number of greater and less values, quantities, or amounts; forming an average between two or more terms of any kind; average; specifically, in mathematics, having a value which is a symmetrical function of other values of the same sort, such that, were all those other values to be equal, the value of the function would be equal to them all (compare II., 4): as, the mean breadth of a country; the mean distance of the earth from the sun.
20. the middle point, place, or state between two extremes; a middle path or course; a middle or intermediate kind, quality, rate, or degree; hence, the avoidance of extremes; absence of excess; moderation.
21. intervening time; interval of time; interim; meantime.
22. in music: A middle voice or voice-part, as the tenor or alto.
23. the second of a set of viols; an alto.
24. either the second or the third string of a viol, the former being the small mean, and the latter the great mean.
25. A quantity having a value intermediate between the values of other quantities; specifically, in mathematics, the average, or arithmetical mean, obtained by adding several quantities together and dividing the sum by their number.
26. in logic, the middle term in a syllogism.
27. A mediator; an intermediary; an agent; a broker; a go-between.
28. A subservient agency or instrumentality; that which confers ability or opportunity to attain an end: now rare in the singular, the plural form being used with both singular and plural meanings: as, means of travel or of subsistence; by this means you will succeed.
29. causative agency or instrumentality; contributory aid or assistance; help; support: only in the plural form, in the phrase by means of, or by (or through) … means: as, we live by means of food; it came about through their means.
30. specifically plural disposable resources; elements of ability or opportunity; especially, pecuniary resources; possessions; revenue; income.
31. in any way; possibly; at all.
32.
33. instrument, method, mode, way, expedient, resource, appliance.
34. to moan; lament; mourn; complain.
35. to bemoan; lament: used reflexively.
36. to demean; carry; conduct.
37. the abscissa of the center of gravity of the variates or of the frequency polygon. it is found by the formula where V is the magnitude of any class, f its frequency, and n the number of variates.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia