meanverb詞源 1/miːn/

• 1

  To intend.

  • I didn't mean to knock your tooth out.
  • I mean to go to Arévalo in Spain this summer; I’ve been meaning to tell you for weeks, but I’ve just found the time.
• 2

  To intend.

  • Don't be angry; she meant well.
• 3

  regionalTo intend.

  • Actually this desk was meant for the subeditor.
  • Man was not meant to question such things.
• 4

  To intend.

  • Your reasoning seems needlessly abstruse, complex, and verbose for me. I mean, could you dumb it down for my sake?
• 5

  To convey (a meaning).

  • 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.
• 6

  To convey (a meaning).

  • 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.
• 7

  To convey (a meaning).

  • I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean.
  • He’s a little different, if you know what I mean.
• 8

  To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).

  • Does she really mean what she said to him last night?
  • Say what you mean and mean what you say.

meanadj詞源 2/miːn/

• 1

  obsoleteCommon; general.

• 2

  archaicOf a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.

  • a man of mean parentage
  • a mean abode
• 3

  Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.

  • a mean appearance
  • a mean dress
• 4

  Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.

  • You hurt her feelings - that was a mean thing to do.
  • It was mean of you to steal that little girl's piggy bank.
• 5

  Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.

  • The Roman legions and great Caesar found / Our fathers no mean foes.
• 6

  Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.

  • He's so mean. I've never seen him spend so much as five pounds on presents for his children.
• 7

  Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.

• 8

  Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.

  • Watch out for her: she's mean. I said good morning to her, and she punched me in the nose.

meanadj詞源 3/miːn/

• 1

  Having the mean as its value; average.

  • The mean family has 2.4 children.
  • In the mountain region of A-erh-t'ai Shan and Hsiang-t'ien Shan⁷, if the mean west wind velocity is five meters per second, the high tendency at 700mb on the anterior mountain slope may exceed 40 meters in 12 hours.
• 2

  obsoleteMiddling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.

  • 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

meannoun詞源 3/miːn/

• 1

  A method or course of action used to achieve some result.

  • 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.
• 2

  obsoleteAn intermediate step or intermediate steps.

  • 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.
• 3

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

  • 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
• 4

  historicalentertainmentlifestylemusicThe middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.

  • Of these [rattles] they have Base, Tenor, Countertenor, Meane, and Treble.
• 5

  mathematicssciencesAny 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.

  • 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.
• 6

  mathematicssciencesstatisticsAny 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.

  • While the average age of the rioter was 27.8 years, the mean age of the nonrioter was 38.1.
• 7

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

  • ...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.

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