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Verb (meant)
1. Intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify.
I don't know what you mean
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Origin
1. Old English mænan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch meenen and German meinen, from an Indo-European root shared by mind.
Adjective
1. Unwilling to give or share things, especially money; not generous.
They were horrible - greedy and interfering, and mean and small-minded.
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Origin
1. Middle English, shortening of Old English gemǣne, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin communis ‘common’. The original sense was ‘common to two or more people’, later ‘inferior in rank’, leading to mean (sense 3) and a sense ‘ignoble, small-minded’, from which mean (sense 1 and mean sense 2) (which became common in the 19th century) arose.
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1. The value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average.
acid output was calculated by taking the mean of all three samples
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Adjective
1. (of a quantity) calculated as a mean; average.
The mean residual values and the RSD were calculated for each weigh day.
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2. Equally far from two extremes.
hope is the mean virtue between despair and presumption
Origin
1. Middle English from Old French meien, from Latin medianus ‘middle’ (see median).
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