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• I mean to go to Baddeck this summer.
• I didn't mean to knock your tooth out.
• Don't be angry; she meant well.
• I meant to take the car in for a smog check, but it slipped my mind.
• Actually this desk was meant for the subeditor.
• Man was not meant to question such things.
• I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.
• The sky is red this morning—does that mean we're in for a storm?
• An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
• What does this hieroglyph mean?
• A term should be included if it's likely that someone would run across it and want to know what it means. This in turn leads to the somewhat more formal guideline of including a term if it is attested and idiomatic.
• Does she really mean what she said to him last night?
• Say what you mean and mean what you say.
• One faltering step means certain death.
• It was a goal that meant West Ham won on their first appearance at Wembley in 31 years, in doing so becoming the first team since Leicester in 1996 to bounce straight back to the Premier League through the play-offs.
• One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[...]But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
• My home life means a lot to me.
• a man of mean parentage / a mean abode
• a mean appearance / mean dress
• a mean motive
• Can you imagine I so mean could prove, / To save my life by changing of my love?
• The Roman legions and great Caesar found / Our fathers no mean foes.
• He's so mean. I've never seen him spend so much as five pounds on presents for his children.
• The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
• It was mean to steal the girl's piggy bank, but he just had to get uptown and he had no cash of his own.
• Watch out for her, she's mean. I said good morning to her, and she punched me in the nose.
• It must have been a mean typhoon that levelled this town.
• Your mother can roll a mean cigarette.
• He hits a mean backhand.
• This problem is mean!
• I have declared in the causes what harm costiveness hath done in procuring this disease; if it be so noxious, the opposite must needs be good, or mean at least, as indeed it is […].
• being of middle age and a mean stature
• according to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly
• To say truth, it is a meane full of uncertainty and danger.
• You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements.
• Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean.
• Mr Obama produced an only slightly less ambitious goal for deficit reduction than the House Republicans, albeit working from a more forgiving baseline: $4 trillion over 12 years compared to $4.4 trillion over 10 years. But the means by which he would achieve it are very different.
• Verily in this treatise this hath been mine only purpose; and the mean to bring the same to effect hath been such as whereby I studied to profit wholesomely, not to please delicately.
• That it was lawful and meritorious to kill and destroy the king, and all the said hereticks. — The mean to effect it, they concluded to be, that, 1. The king, the queen, the prince, the lords spiritual and temporal, the knights and burgoses of the parliament, should be blown up with powder. 2. That the whole royal issue male should be destroyed. S. That they would lake into their custody Elizabeth and Mary the king's daughters, and proclaim the lady Elizabeth queen. 4. That they should feign a Proclamation in the name of Elizabeth, in which no mention should be made of alteration of religion, nor that they were parties to the treason, until they had raised power to perform the same; and then to proclaim, all grievances in the kingdom should be reformed.
• Apply desperate physic: / We must not now use balsamum, but fire, / The smarting cupping-glass, for that's the mean / To purge infected blood, such blood as hers.
• Then will not this constitution be a kind of mean between aristocracy and oligarchy?
• as a mean, it implies certain extremes between which it lies, namely the more and the less
• It presents a sort of mean between speech and song, continually inclining towards the latter, never altogether leaving its hold on the former; it is speech, though always attuned speech, in passages of average interest and importance; it is song, though always distinct and articulate song, in passages demanding more fervid utterance.
• Of these [rattles] they have Base, Tenor, Countertenor, Meane, and Treble.
• Note that (1.41) is simply the probability-weighted mean without any explicit allowance for the stratification; each observation is weighted by its inflation factor and the total divided by the total of the inflation factors for the survey.
• Luckily, even though the arithmetic mean is unusable, both the harmonic and geometric means settle to precise values as the amount of data increases.
• The generalized power means include power means, certain Gini means, in particular the counter-harmonic means.
• In \frac{18}{27}=\frac23, the product of the means is 2·27, and the product of the extremes is 18·3. Both products are 54.
• ...if four numbers be in proportion, the product of the first and last, or of the two extremes, is equal to the product of the second and third, or of the two means.
• Using the means-extremes property of proportions, you know that the product of the extremes equals the product of the means. The ratio t/4 = 5/2 can be rewritten as t:4 = 5:2, in which the extremes are t and 2, and the means are 4 and 5.
• Anone he meaned hym, and wolde have had hym home unto his ermytage.
• She is very mean-spirited.
• He is mean to not share his food.
• He is a mean golfer.
• He is no mean golfer. (He is not an average golfer. He is better.)
• "Vouloir" means "to want".
• If the butler wasn’t in the house at the time, then that means that the maid must be the murderer!
• I meant to buy some gum, but I forgot.
• I really mean what I said.
• Greenwich ~ time
• What do you mean?
• “For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.” (The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling)