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EN[ˈmɛnt] [-ɛnt]
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  • Examples of mean
    1. More specifically, they learn to move towards, and quickly respond to, positive stimuli ( e.g. , portraits of happy faces) and disattend to, or shift attention away from, negative stimuli ( e.g. , mean faces, threatening animals).
    2. Mean Skin Assessment Scale scores of patients in control, hydrocolloid dressing and eggcrate foam groups Group Mean score in treatment period
    3. Returning "emptyhanded" doesn't always mean that you didn't get what you set out for.
    4. What I mean is this: Clive's narrative, in its dialectic of good and bad guys, however fairhandedly developed, imputes moving spirits to nudge along the story
    5. "You mean to say that because I work hard and get a little fore-handed I ought to take a lot of shiftless folks and teach them to be lazy and dependent on me?"
    6. Even after excluding the subjects that moved most, the mean framewise displacement remained significantly greater in the group of patients than in the control participants.
    7. The volume and mean cross-sectional area of nasopharynx, velopharynx and glossopharynx region showed significant difference.
    8. But that's what I mean, Everett's friends are all tired grey businessmen or engineers or something, and Francine's all seem to be mumbling poets with pimply necks, God it's all so – so haecceitic. I could've gone to Nassau ...
  • Examples of means
    1. Marxian theory of class-struggle and dictatorship of proletariat for the control of means of production was the result of iron handedness of capitalism in the nineteenth century for the establishment of egalitarian society.
    2. When young people first leave home, they often get into financial trouble living beyond their means. It is then that they start to learn some of the harsh realities of life.
    3. Although the enemy saw that they were being hurt, they were such mad dogs that we could by no means prevent their pursuing us
    4. This increase means that almost every aspect of the Earth’s climate system is now influenced by humanity, and the consequences – droughts, heatwaves, megafires, melting glaciers and rising oceans – are now well understood.
    5. 3 September) – means the Guardian is now advocating stealing software rather than paying what can only be described as a very meagre multilicence upgrade fee.
    6. This means the stem-loop tool—with its base-pairing and nonpairing composition—is relevant to all agents of the current RNA world being active in cellular genomes after transcription.
  • Examples of meant
    1. Stop being pissy: you knew what I meant when I said "Don't touch the dial", but you prodded the dial with a fork.
    2. It appeared to clinch a deal, and was meant to sound the same as the more soldierly Good to go, except it was promiseless — mere affirmative description.
    3. He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.
    4. His rudimentary driving skills meant that he was a danger on the road.
    5. For Betty Rollin, a memoirist who grew up in Yonkers, being siblingless meant that she was pampered, adored and showered with gifts.
    6. That can confuse people, so we’re trying to focus the point of view so that it’s not so teenagery, but nor is it meant to be old and frumpy.”
    7. His undoubted skill meant that he was in much demand.
    8. The annual Americana fest is meant to help collectors [ … ] pore through unfrivolous, astringent, functional American design.
    9. If location photography meant better-looking backgrounds than the painted flats or rear-projection screens of the studios, it also meant that filmmakers had to curtail their creative urges in the face of unmalleable reality.
  • Examples of meaner
    1. It's like buying a barrel of apples that's been deaconed — after you've found that the deeper you go the meaner and wormier the fruit, you forget all about the layer of big, rosy, wax-finished pippins that was on top.
  • Examples of meaning
    1. I mugged up on the meaning of road signs before taking my driving test.
    2. I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
    3. The editor decided that repunctuating Shakespeare's sonnets risked damaging their meaning.
    4. He's like a human parrot: he resays whatever he's told - without any comprehension of its meaning.
    5. Further, some investors ride the coattails of investor giants, such as Warren Buffett, meaning they would frequently invest in the stocks Buffet invested in.
    6. It all depends on what the meaning of is is. - Bill Clinton
    7. If we desire to find the hidden meaning and subtlety of the pictorial symbols we must search these mediæval encyclopediæ.
    8. You betcha! (meaning You bet your bottom dollar!)
    9. We have felt it ourselves when the obvious meaning of Shakespeare has been rewritten into Hegelese, by some Doctor of Philosophy [ … ] eager to apply his new theory of fog as an illuminating medium.
  • Examples of meanest
    1. This indifference was so offensive to his high heart, that he began to change the Tender into the Terrible, and, in short, proceeded at last to treat her in a style too grossly insulting for the meanest female ear to endure unresented.
    2. Laploshka was one of the meanest men I have ever met, and quite one of the most entertaining.
    3. Another surprise is that Newcastle have the meanest defence in all four leagues and they did their utmost to preserve the tag at Molineux.
    4. Making a big whoopee-doo of my long life by enumerating the numerous contributions I have made to my country and Civilization, it was obvious even to the meanest intelligence among those present that she had no idea of the meaning and purpose of History. Nor did she have a clue about what my life was about.
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