mean

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/miːn/]

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1. mean (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Having the mean as its value; average.

Example: The mean family has 2.4 children.

2. mean (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.

Example: 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 […].

3. mean (noun) — sense 3

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

Example: To say truth, it is a meane full of uncertainty and danger.

4. mean (noun) — sense 4

Definition: An intermediate step or intermediate steps.

Example: a. 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
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.

5. mean (noun) — sense 5

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

Example: Then will not this constitution be a kind of mean between aristocracy and oligarchy?

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