Mean

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1 Pronunciation 2 Verb 3 Translations 4 Adjective 5 Translations 6 Noun 7 Translations

Pronunciation

to mean (meant, meant)

1. to want to say something
2. to signify
3. to intend
4. to stand behind what one says

• Dutch: menen
• Esperanto: voli diri (1); signifi (2), intenci (3)
• French: vouloir dire (1); signifier (2)
• German: meinen
• Indonesian: berarti, artinya, bermaksud, maksudnya
• Interlingua: voler dicer (1); significar (2); intender, haber le intention de (3); mantener un opinion (4)
• Italian: voler dire (1); significare (2)
• Japanese: 意味する (いみする, imi-suru), 意図する (いとする, ito-suru)
• Portuguese: querer dizer (1); significar (2); tencionar, ter a intenção de (3); manter uma opinião, falar sério (4)

1. not nice at all
2. low in quality; inferior.
3. having an intermediate value, or based on an average.

   Examples:

   mean distance, mean time, mean solar time, mean sun.

4. (slang): hard to cope with.

   He hits a mean backhand.

• Dutch: gemeen (1,2), boosaardig (1), gemiddelde (2)
• Esperanto: kruela (1), malafabla (1), malbonkvalita (2), meza (3)
• French: inférieur (2); moyen (3)
• German: gemein (1); mittelmäßig (2); durschnittlich (3)
• Indonesian: buruk hati, kikir, pemarah, rata-rata
• Interlingua: mal, perverse, contemptibile (1); inferior (2); medie (3); insuperabile, superior (4)
• Italian: inferiore (2); medio (3)
• Japanese: 悪い (わるい, warui), 平均 (へいきん, heikin), 平均的 (へいきんてき, heikinteki)
• Portuguese: mal m & f, perverso m, perversa f (1); inferior m & f (2); médio m, média f (3); insuperável m & f, superior m & f

1. (Mathematics) an intermediate value based on some measure of central tendency, often an average or the arithmetic mean. (See the related Wikipedia article)

See also means.