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mean 音标拼音: [m'in] v. 意思是,意味着,有重大意义;预定,打算,准备,意欲
a. 中间的,中庸的,平均的 意思是,意味着,有重大意义;预定,打算,准备,意欲中间的,中庸的,平均的 mean平均值;意义;平均 Mmean平均 mean adj 1: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; " the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; " of average height for his age"; " the mean annual rainfall" [ synonym: { average}, { mean( a)}] 2: characterized by malice; " a hateful thing to do"; " in a mean mood" [ synonym: { hateful}, { mean}] 3: having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; " that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; " taking a mean advantage"; " chok' d with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; " something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" [ synonym: { base}, { mean}, { meanspirited}] 4: excellent; " famous for a mean backhand" 5: marked by poverty befitting a beggar; " a beggarly existence in the slums"; " a mean hut" [ synonym: { beggarly}, { mean}] 6: ( used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; " a mean person"; " he left a miserly tip" [ synonym: { mean}, { mingy}, { miserly}, { tight}] 7: ( used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt [ synonym: { beggarly}, { mean}] 8: of no value or worth; " I was caught in the bastardly traffic" [ synonym: { bastardly}, { mean}] n 1: an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n [ synonym: { mean}, { mean value}] v 1: mean or intend to express or convey; " You never understand what I mean!"; " what do his words intend?" [ synonym: { mean}, { intend}] 2: have as a logical consequence; " The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" [ synonym: { entail}, { imply}, { mean}] 3: denote or connote; "` maison' means ` house' in French"; " An example sentence would show what this word means" [ synonym: { mean}, { intend}, { signify}, { stand for}] 4: have in mind as a purpose; " I mean no harm"; " I only meant to help you"; " She didn' t think to harm me"; " We thought to return early that night" [ synonym: { intend}, { mean}, { think}] 5: have a specified degree of importance; " My ex- husband means nothing to me"; " Happiness means everything" 6: intend to refer to; " I' m thinking of good food when I talk about France"; " Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" [ synonym: { think of}, { have in mind}, { mean}] 7: destine or designate for a certain purpose; " These flowers were meant for you" Mean \ Mean\, v. i. To have a purpose or intention. [ Rare, except in the phrase to mean well, or ill.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Mean \ Mean\ ( m[= e] n), a. [ Compar. { Meaner} ( m[= e] n"[~ e] r); superl. { Meanest}.] [ OE. mene, AS. m[= ae] ne wicked; akin to m[= a] n, a., wicked, n., wickedness, OS. m[= e] n wickedness, OHG. mein, G. meineid perjury, Icel. mein harm, hurt, and perh. to AS. gem[= ae] ne common, general, D. gemeen, G. gemein, Goth. gam[' a] ins, and L. communis. The AS. gem[= ae] ne prob. influenced the meaning.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble. " Of mean parentage." -- Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself. -- Is. ii. 9. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Wanting dignity of mind; low- minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive. [ 1913 Webster] Can you imagine I so mean could prove, To save my life by changing of my love ? -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable. [ 1913 Webster] The Roman legions and great Caesar found Our fathers no mean foes. -- J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Of poor quality; as, mean fare. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Penurious; stingy; close- fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Mean is sometimes used in the formation of compounds, the sense of which is obvious without explanation; as, meanborn, mean- looking, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Base; ignoble; abject; beggarly; wretched; degraded; degenerate; vulgar; vile; servile; menial; spiritless; groveling; slavish; dishonorable; disgraceful; shameful; despicable; contemptible; paltry; sordid. See { Base}. [ 1913 Webster]
Mean \ Mean\ ( m[= e] n), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Meant} ( m[ e^] nt); p. pr. & vb. n. { Meaning}.] [ OE. menen, AS. m[= ae] nan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. m[= e] nian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, Sw. mena, Dan. mene, and to E. mind. [ root] 104. See { Mind}, and cf. { Moan}.] 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do? [ 1913 Webster] What mean ye by this service ? -- Ex. xii. 26. [ 1913 Webster] Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good. -- Gen. 1. 20. [ 1913 Webster] I am not a Spaniard To say that it is yours and not to mean it. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote. [ 1913 Webster] What mean these seven ewe lambs ? -- Gen. xxi. 29. [ 1913 Webster] Go ye, and learn what that meaneth. -- Matt. ix. 13. [ 1913 Webster]
Mean \ Mean\, n. 1. That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure. [ 1913 Webster] But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] There is a mean in all things. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] The extremes we have mentioned, between which the wellinstracted Christian holds the mean, are correlatives. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Math.) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an { arithmetical mean}. A { geometrical mean} is the nth root of the product of the n quantities being averaged. [ 1913 Webster] 3. That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument. [ 1913 Webster] Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. -- Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In this sense the word is usually employed in the plural form means, and often with a singular attribute or predicate, as if a singular noun. [ 1913 Webster] By this means he had them more at vantage. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] What other means is left unto us. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. pl. Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance. [ 1913 Webster] Your means are very slender, and your waste is great. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Mus.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The mean is drowned with your unruly base. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Meantime; meanwhile. [ Obs.] -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 7. A mediator; a go- between. [ Obs.] -- Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster] He wooeth her by means and by brokage. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] { By all means}, certainly; without fail; as, go, by all means. { By any means}, in any way; possibly; at all. [ 1913 Webster] If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. -- Phil. iii. ll. [ 1913 Webster] { By no means}, or { By no manner of means}, not at all; certainly not; not in any degree. [ 1913 Webster] The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster]
Mean \ Mean\, a. [ OE. mene, OF. meiien, F. moyen, fr. L. medianus that is in the middle, fr. medius; akin to E. mid. See { Mid}.] 1. Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes. [ 1913 Webster] Being of middle age and a mean stature. -- Sir. P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Intermediate in excellence of any kind. [ 1913 Webster] According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Math.) Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day. [ 1913 Webster] { Mean distance} ( of a planet from the sun) ( Astron.), the average of the distances throughout one revolution of the planet, equivalent to the semi- major axis of the orbit. { Mean error} ( Math. Phys.), the average error of a number of observations found by taking the mean value of the positive and negative errors without regard to sign. { Mean- square error}, or { Error of the mean square} ( Math. Phys.), the error the square of which is the mean of the squares of all the errors; -- called also, { mean square deviation}, { mean error}. { Mean line}. ( Crystallog.) Same as { Bisectrix}. { Mean noon}, noon as determined by mean time. { Mean proportional} ( between two numbers) ( Math.), the square root of their product. { Mean sun}, a fictitious sun supposed to move uniformly in the equator so as to be on the meridian each day at mean noon. { Mean time}, time as measured by an equable motion, as of a perfect clock, or as reckoned on the supposition that all the days of the year are of a mean or uniform length, in contradistinction from apparent time, or that actually indicated by the sun, and from sidereal time, or that measured by the stars. 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