mean
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1 betoken, connote, convey, denote, drive at, express, hint at, imply, indicate, purport, represent, say, signify, spell, stand for, suggest, symbolize
2 aim, aspire, contemplate, design, desire, have in mind, intend, plan, propose, purpose, set out, want, wish
3 design, destine, fate, fit, make, match, predestine, preordain, suit
4 bring about, cause, engender, entail, give rise to, involve, lead to, necessitate, produce, result in
5 adumbrate, augur, betoken, foreshadow, foretell, herald, portend, presage, promise
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mean [2]
adj
1 beggarly, close (informal) mercenary, mingy (Brit. informal) miserly, near (informal) niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, selfish, skimpy, snoep (S. African informal) stingy, tight, tight-arsed (taboo slang) tight as a duck’s arse (taboo slang) tight-assed (U.S. taboo slang) tight-fisted, ungenerous
2 bad-tempered, cantankerous, churlish, disagreeable, hostile, ill-tempered, malicious, nasty, rude, sour, unfriendly, unpleasant
3 abject, base, callous, contemptible, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful, dishonourable, hard-hearted, ignoble, low-minded, narrow-minded, petty, scurvy, shabby, shameful, sordid, vile, wretched
4 beggarly, contemptible, down-at-heel, grungy (slang, chiefly U.S.) insignificant, low-rent (informal, chiefly U.S.) miserable, paltry, poor, run-down, scruffy, scuzzy (slang, chiefly U.S.) seedy, shabby, sordid, squalid, tawdry, wretched
5 base, baseborn (archaic) common, humble, ignoble, inferior, low, lowborn, lowly, menial, modest, obscure, ordinary, plebeian, proletarian, servile, undistinguished, vulgar
Antonyms
1 altruistic, big, bountiful, generous, munificent, prodigal, unselfish
3 compassionate, gentle, good, honourable, humane, kind, liberal, praiseworthy, sympathetic, warm-hearted
4 attractive, choice, de luxe, excellent, first-rate, pleasing, superb, superior
5 consequential, high, important, noble, princely, significant
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mean [3]
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n average, balance, compromise, happy medium, median, middle, middle course or way, mid-point, norm
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adj average, intermediate, medial, median, medium, middle, middling, normal, standard
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
mean
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1] ( means 3rd person present) ( meaning present participle) ( meant past tense & past participle ) (VERB USES)
Please look at category 19 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.
1 verb If you want to know what a word, code, signal, or gesture means, you want to know what it refers to or what its message is.
no cont
In modern Welsh, `glas’ means `blue’… V n
The red signal means you can shoot. V that
2 verb If you ask someone what they mean , you are asking them to explain exactly what or who they are referring to or what they are intending to say.
no cont
Do you mean me?… V n
I think he means that he does not want this marriage to turn out like his friend’s. V that
3 verb If something means something to you, it is important to you in some way.
no cont
The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him… V amount to n
It would mean a lot to them to win. it V amount to-inf, Also V amount
4 verb If one thing means another, it shows that the second thing exists or is true.
no cont
An enlarged prostate does not necessarily mean cancer… V n
Just because he has a beard doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a hippy. V that
5 verb If one thing means another, the first thing leads to the second thing happening.
no cont
It would almost certainly mean the end of NATO… V n
The change will mean that the country no longer has full diplomatic relations with other states. V that
6 verb If doing one thing means doing another, it involves doing the second thing.
Managing well means communicating well. V -ing
7 verb If you say that you mean what you are saying, you are telling someone that you are serious about it and are not joking, exaggerating, or just being polite.
no cont
He says you’re fired if you’re not back at work on Friday. And I think he meant it… V n
8 verb If you say that someone meantto do something, you are saying that they did it deliberately.
no cont
(=intend)
I didn’t mean to hurt you… V to-inf
I can see why you believed my letters were threatening but I never meant them to be. V n to-inf
9 verb If you say that someone did notmean any harm, offence, or disrespect, you are saying that they did not intend to upset or offend people or to cause problems, even though they may in fact have done so.
no cont, with brd-neg
(=intend)
I’m sure he didn’t mean any harm… V n
10 verb If you mean to do something, you intend or plan to do it.
no cont
(=intend)
Summer is the perfect time to catch up on the new books you meant to read… V to-inf
11 verb If you say that something was meantto happen, you believe that it was made to happen by God or fate, and did not just happen by chance.
usu passive, no cont
John was constantly reassuring me that we were meant to be together. be V-ed to-inf
12 You say `I mean’ when making clearer something that you have just said.
SPOKEN
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I mean phrase PHR with cl
It was his idea. Gordon’s, I mean…
13 You can use `I mean’ to introduce a statement, especially one that justifies something that you have just said.
SPOKEN
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I mean phrase PHR with cl
I’m sure he wouldn’t mind. I mean, I was the one who asked him…
14 You say I mean when correcting something that you have just said.
SPOKEN
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I mean phrase PHR with cl
It was law or classics<endash>I mean English or classics.
15 If you know what it means to do something, you know everything that is involved in a particular activity or experience, especially the effect that it has on you.
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know what it means to do sth/know what sth means phrase Vs inflect, oft PHR to-inf
I know what it means to lose a child under such tragic circumstances.
16 If a name, word, or phrase means something to you, you have heard it before and you know what it refers to.
♦
mean something to sb phrase V inflects, PHR n
`Oh, Gairdner,’ he said, as if that meant something to him…
17 If you say that someone means well, you mean they are trying to be kind and helpful, even though they might be causing someone problems or upsetting them.
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mean well phrase V inflects
I know you mean well, but I can manage by myself.
18 You use `you mean’ in a question to check that you have understood what someone has said.
♦
you mean phrase PHR with cl
What accident? You mean Christina’s?…, `What if I had said no?’ `About the apartment, you mean?’
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mean [2] ( meaner comparative) ( meanest superlative ) (ADJECTIVE USES)
1 adj If you describe someone as mean , you are being critical of them because they are unwilling to spend much money or to use very much of a particular thing.
(mainly BRIT, disapproval)
(=stingy)
Don’t be mean with fabric, otherwise curtains will end up looking skimpy.
in AM, use cheap, stingy
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meanness n-uncount
This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.
2 adj If you describe an amount as mean , you are saying that it is very small.
(BRIT, disapproval)
…the meanest grant possible from the local council.
3 adj If someone is being mean , they are being unkind to another person, for example by not allowing them to do something.
usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ to n
The little girls had locked themselves in upstairs because Mack had been mean to them…, I’d feel mean saying no.
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meanly adv usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
He had been behaving very meanly to his girlfriend.
4 adj If you describe a person or animal as mean , you are saying that they are very bad-tempered and cruel.
(mainly AM)
…the meanest fighter in the world.
5 adj If you describe a place as mean , you think that it looks poor and dirty.
usu ADJ n
He was raised on the mean streets of the central market district of Panama City.
6 You can use no mean in expressions such as `no mean writer’ and `no mean golfer’ to indicate that someone does something well.
INFORMAL
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no mean sth phrase PHR n (approval)
She was no mean performer on a variety of other instruments…
7 You can use no mean in expressions such as `no mean achievement’ and `no mean task’ to indicate that someone has done something they deserve to be proud of.
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no mean sth phrase PHR n
To destroy 121 enemy aircraft is no mean record…
Translation English Cobuild Collins Dictionary
mean [3] (NOUN USE) The mean is a number that is the average of a set of numbers. n-sing the N, oft N n
(=average)
Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean., …the mean score for 26-year-olds.
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gay |
adj. |
in modern usage, especially among young people, also used disparagingly to mean ‘rubbish’ or ‘ridiculous’ |
that is so gay: c’est nase |
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craption |
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word created with «crap» and «caption» to mean a bad quality caption |
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ten-printed |
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Expression used to mean that you have provided fingerprints for all your fingers, thumbs included (i.e. 10 fingers), as opposed to having provided only two fingerprints. |
[US];[Adm.] US gov. upon Visa requirement: «Have you been ten-printed?» |
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thick as thieves |
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expression to qualify two or more people who are very close, get along well and share secrets to each other; combined with the fact that, in the old days, ‘thick’ used to also mean ‘close together’, who else better understands a thief but another thief, right? |
Those two boys are thick as thieves. They’ve been close since they were babies! |
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis |
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artificial long word coined to mean a lung disease known as silicosis, a type of pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of ultra-microscopic particles of crystalline silica volcanic dust. It has the particularity of being the longest word in the English language published in a dictionary |
Longer tech. terms exist (up to 189,819 letters!).The word, presumably coined in 1935 by E.M. Smith (pres. of the National Puzzlers’League) in imitation of very long medical terms, contains 45 letters |
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fit and proper |
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fit and proper means morally suitable |
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gutsy |
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to be gutsy means to have guts |
to be gutsy: avoir du cran |
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freaky |
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freaky means odd, strange, unusual |
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gazunder |
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a humorous and old-fashioned word that means a chamber pot |
Comes from the fact that the chamber pot ‘gazunder’ (= goes under) the bed |
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up for it |
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«to be up for it» means to be willing to participate |
she’s really up for it: elle est partante |
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boarded up |
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when a shop is boarded up, it means it is no longer in business and that wooden planks have been nailed over its windows. |
one in seven shops in the UK are boarded up |
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in the air |
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When something is ‘in the air’, it means something exciting or significant is taking place or about to happen. Ex.: Spring is in the air — it’s time for change! |
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train crash |
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used figuratively, a train crash means something disastrously bad |
‘this train crash of a policy’ |
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clusterfuck |
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a clusterfuck means several problems occurring at the same time |
Mainly US usage, very colloquial/vulgar |
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! Cyber interception |
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Cyber interception means the acquisition of the any digital contents through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other digital devices. |
[Tech.];[Leg.] Cyber interception means the acquisition of the any digital contents |
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take sb down a notch |
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to take OR bring somebody down a notch means to make them behave less arrogantly or proudly. |
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rattle somebody’s cage |
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to rattle someone’s cage means to do something that is likely to annoy them or unsettle them |
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he can dish it but he can’t take it |
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this expression means ‘he is very good at criticizing others but he can’t accept criticism from others’ |
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote
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mean
Synonyms:
base, beggarly, commonplace, contemptible, despicable, humble, inferior, lowly, paltry, undignified, vulgarAntonyms:
alarming, appalling, august, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, frightful, grand, horrible, imposing, majestic, noble, portentous, shocking, solemn, stately, terrible, terrific
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes
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meanadjective
Synonyms:
common, low, base, spiritless, dishonorable, contemptible, despicable, beggarly, sordid, vulgar, niggardly, vileAntonyms:
high, exalted, eminent, spirited, honorable, lordly, princely, munificent, liberal, generous -
meanadjective
Synonyms:
middle, intermediate, averageAntonyms:
extreme, excessive, exorbitant -
meannoun
Synonyms:
medium, moderation, balance, averageAntonyms:
extreme, excess, preponderance, disproportion, deficiency, shortcoming, inadequacy -
meanverb
Synonyms:
intend, purpose, design, signify, denote, indicate, hint, suggestAntonyms:
say, state, enunciate, execute, perform
Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes
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mean, mean valueadjective
an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
Synonyms:
mean valueAntonyms:
generous, unnatural, estimable, rich, nice, abnormal, noble, unskilled -
average, mean(a)adjective
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»
Antonyms:
unnatural, unskilled, rich, generous, abnormal, nice, noble, estimable -
hateful, meanadjective
characterized by malice
«a hateful thing to do»; «in a mean mood»
Synonyms:
bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, meanspirited, tight, hateful, averageAntonyms:
unnatural, nice, abnormal, rich, noble, generous, estimable, unskilled -
base, mean, meanspiritedadjective
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»
Synonyms:
hateful, tight, mingy, basal, ungenerous, mean(a), humble, base, lowly, average, baseborn, meanspirited, bastardly, beggarly, immoral, miserlyAntonyms:
unskilled, generous, rich, estimable, noble, nice, unnatural, abnormal -
meanadjective
excellent
«famous for a mean backhand»
Synonyms:
bastardly, tight, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, miserly, meanspirited, hateful, averageAntonyms:
abnormal, estimable, noble, rich, unnatural, unskilled, generous, nice -
beggarly, meanadjective
marked by poverty befitting a beggar
«a beggarly existence in the slums»; «a mean hut»
Synonyms:
bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, meanspirited, tight, hateful, averageAntonyms:
abnormal, rich, unnatural, nice, noble, generous, estimable, unskilled -
mean, mingy, miserly, tightadjective
(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
«a mean person»; «he left a miserly tip»
Synonyms:
close, pissed, blind drunk, base, mean(a), besotted, slopped, rigorous, mingy, blotto, average, squiffy, pixilated, hateful, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, tight, soused, compressed, meanspirited, sozzled, taut, nasty, plastered, miserly, stiff, stringent, pie-eyed, bastardly, sloshed, smashed, soaked, loaded, wet, beggarlyAntonyms:
generous, unnatural, noble, abnormal, estimable, rich, nice, unskilled -
beggarly, meanadjective
(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
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bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, meanspirited, tight, hateful, averageAntonyms:
abnormal, rich, noble, generous, nice, unskilled, unnatural, estimable -
bastardly, meanverb
of no value or worth
«I was caught in the bastardly traffic»
Synonyms:
bastardly, misbegot, mean(a), misbegotten, hateful, miserly, spurious, beggarly, base, mingy, meanspirited, tight, averageAntonyms:
generous, noble, abnormal, rich, nice, unnatural, estimable, unskilled -
mean, intendverb
mean or intend to express or convey
«You never understand what I mean!»; «what do his words intend?»
Synonyms:
intend, stand for, designate, entail, specify, have in mind, destine, signify, think, imply, think ofAntonyms:
estimable, unnatural, abnormal, unskilled, generous, noble, rich, nice -
entail, imply, meanverb
have as a logical consequence
«The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers»
Synonyms:
intend, incriminate, involve, implicate, inculpate, entail, have in mind, connote, stand for, signify, fee-tail, think, imply, think ofAntonyms:
abnormal, estimable, unnatural, unskilled, rich, noble, nice, generous -
mean, intend, signify, stand forverb
denote or connote
«`maison’ means `house’ in French»; «An example sentence would show what this word means»
Synonyms:
entail, signify, typify, hold still for, represent, destine, stand for, imply, symbolise, specify, have in mind, designate, think, correspond, think of, symbolize, intendAntonyms:
unnatural, noble, generous, unskilled, abnormal, rich, nice, estimable -
intend, mean, thinkverb
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»
Synonyms:
entail, call back, signify, guess, recollect, imagine, consider, retrieve, call up, destine, reckon, suppose, stand for, imply, cogitate, specify, conceive, designate, think, cerebrate, recall, remember, think of, opine, have in mind, intend, believeAntonyms:
abnormal, nice, generous, unnatural, estimable, noble, rich, unskilled -
meanverb
have a specified degree of importance
«My ex-husband means nothing to me»; «Happiness means everything»
Synonyms:
intend, stand for, entail, have in mind, signify, think, imply, think ofAntonyms:
generous, unskilled, noble, estimable, rich, unnatural, nice, abnormal -
think of, have in mind, meanverb
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!»
Synonyms:
entail, signify, think up, dream up, entertain, think about, repute, esteem, hatch, stand for, remember, concoct, have in mind, regard as, flirt with, look on, toy with, imply, look upon, think of, take to be, intend, thinkAntonyms:
nice, rich, abnormal, generous, noble, unnatural, unskilled, estimable -
meanverb
destine or designate for a certain purpose
«These flowers were meant for you»
Synonyms:
intend, stand for, entail, have in mind, signify, think, imply, think ofAntonyms:
abnormal, unnatural, unskilled, rich, generous, nice, estimable, noble
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cuvitch
someone who does not share
don’t be such a cuvitch
Submitted by anonymous on December 28, 2020
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macabre
not so nice.
«why are you so mean mother ginger!»
Submitted by rinat on August 19, 2019
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thin lipped
the thin lipped person is often portrayed in literature as a mean minded person
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trundling
to be a savage or loud
he was trundling through the depths of the mud
Submitted by anonymous on May 3, 2020
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underbred
bad mannered, rude.
the dog was weak and underbred.
Submitted by anonymous on March 29, 2020
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meanadjective
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middle, medium, average -
meanadjective
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intermediate, intervening, coming between -
meanadjective
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ignoble, plebeian, untitled, low, base-born, ordinary, common, vulgar, coarse, homespun -
meanadjective
Synonyms:
base, abject, grovelling, vile, contemptible, despicable, servile, beggarly, sneaking, dirty, scurvy, shabby, sorry, disingenuous, unfair, rascally, pitiful, base-minded, low-minded, dishonorable -
meanadjective
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sordid, penurious, miserly, stingy, niggardly, illiberal, ungenerous, selfish, narrow, mercenary, narrow-minded -
meanadjective
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small, little, paltry, insignificant, diminutive, petty, poor, wretched -
meannoun
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medium, mediocrity, middle state, middle course -
meannoun
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instrument, method, mode, way, means -
meanverb
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intend, purpose, design, have in view -
meanverb
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signify, indicate, imply, denote, purport, import, express -
meanverb
Synonyms:
intend, purpose, design, have in view, propose to one’s self
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meanadjective
Synonyms:
contemptible, despicable, low-minded, base, abject, groveling, dishonorable, shabby, scurvy, servile, menial, undignified, unbecoming, disingenuous, obscure, ignoble, plebeian, inglorious, undistinguished, vulgar, penurious, illiberal, sordid, miserly, stingy, mercenary parsimonious, ungenerous, midway, average, moderate, middle, medium, mediocre, intermediate, mediate, intervening, insignificant, paltry, inconsequential, piddling, frivolous, inferior, poor -
meannoun
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middle, medium -
meanverb
Synonyms:
intend, purpose, design, contemplate, signify, purport, denote, betoken, imply, typify, indicate
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List of paraphrases for «mean»:
average, means, say, tell, imply, medium-sized, medium, signify, averages, entail, involve
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How to use mean in a sentence?
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Jennifer Aniston:
Of course, absolutely. I mean, it’s happened. That’s what I’m sort of hoping for is not necessarily somebody in the industry itself.
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Fox News:
I mean, if Don Jr. had done what Hunter Biden had done, it would be [covered] every night, all night on MSNBC. But the fact that it’s Hunter Biden and Joe’s on the blue team. See, that’s the problem with America: Everything is so binary.
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Natasha Alford:
Some of that bias just comes out the gate too soon, i mean, it was not even 48 hours after Joe Biden’s elected, and( the media is asking)’ is he failing us ?’.
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Sylvester Stallone:
I love Donald Trump, he’s a great Dickensian character. You know what I mean? There are certain people like Arnold, Babe Ruth, that are bigger than life. But I don’t know how that translates.
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Terry Torrison:
The Shire deal is likely to mean that there will be no fresh bid speculation coming through on Shire itself, although the ongoing consolidation within the industry means the sector will remain of interest to investors.
Translations for mean
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- خسيس, لئيم, عنى, تعنيArabic
- significar, voler dir, pretendre, mitjana, migCatalan, Valencian
- znamenat, plánovat, chtít, aritmetický průměr, prostředekCzech
- betyde, mene, middelDanish
- mittelmäßig, gemein, böse, bedeuten, beabsichtigen, meinen, Mittel, Mittel-German
- άγριος, άθλιος, κακός, μέσος όρος, μέσοςGreek
- kruela, malafabla, malbonkvalita, voli diri, signifi, intenci, rimedo, mezaEsperanto
- malo, malvado, tacaño, desconsiderado, inferior, formidable, mezquino, cruel, producir, decir en serio, pretender, significar, querer decir, proponer, resultar, intentar, medio, media, recurso, reclamar, apiadarse, compadecerse, lamentarse, significaráSpanish
- anker, gaiztoBasque
- میانهPersian
- ilkeä, tarkoittaa, tietää, merkitä, aikoa, väline, keskiarvo, tapa, keino, keski-Finnish
- cruel, inférieur, méchant, inférieure, signifier, vouloir dire, avoir l’intention, moyenne, moyenFrench
- ciallaich, meadhan, cuibheas, cuibheasachdScottish Gaelic
- התכוון, אמצעיHebrew
- jelentHungarian
- միջինArmenian
- significar, ressource, media, medio, medieInterlingua
- rata-rataIndonesian
- meina, ætla, þýða, meðaltal, hreint meðaltal, innliður, milliliður, venjulegt meðaltalIcelandic
- inferiore, eccellente, violento, formidabile, insignificante, meschino, favoloso, ignobile, maligno, potente, taccagno, avaro, gretto, malevolo, fantastico, furioso, sgarbato, mediocre, spilorcio, cattivo, voler dire, intendere, avere l’intenzione, significare, volere, portare, mezzo, media, medioItalian
- 卑劣, 悪い, 腹黒い, 汚い, 劣る, 卑しい, 意地悪, 厄介, するつもり, 意味, 意図, 平均値, 平均, 平均的Japanese
- 의미하다Korean
- ناههموارKurdish
- volo, significo, indicō, habeo in animoLatin
- reikštiLithuanian
- nekrietns, zemisksLatvian
- minMalay
- gemeen, boosaardig, minderwaardig, bedoelen, betekenen, willen, menen, willen zeggen, van plan zijn, middel, gemiddelde, gemiddeldDutch
- betyNorwegian
- chcieć, znaczyćPolish
- inferior, maldoso, formidável, terrível, excelente, ruim, mesquinho, tacanho, cruel, avarento, mau, ótimo, tencionar, falar sério, representar, significar, querer dizer, indicar, querer, pretender, média, alto, passo, recurso, meio, lamentar, compadecer-se, apiedar-se, médio, mediano, reclamarPortuguese
- a vrea să spună, indica, gândi, vrea, a semnifica, avea intenția, am convingerea, însemna, mediu, medie, mijlocRomanian
- зло́бный, злой, по́длый, означа́ть, думать, име́ть в виду́, зна́чить, намерева́ться, собира́ться, сре́днее, сре́дство, сре́днийRussian
- elak, usel, gemen, innebära, mena, betyda, syfta på, tänka, genomsnitt, medelvärde, genomsnittlig, medel-Swedish
- viomboSwahili
- నాణ్యత లేని, కారణమగుట, భయంకరమైన, దురుసు, కష్ట సాధ్యము, స్వార్ధము, శక్తివంతమైన, పాడుచేయు, అనుకోవడము, అనుకొనుట, ఫలితము, అర్ధం ఏమిటి, పధకము వేయు, పూర్తి అయిందిTelugu
- หมายความ, ตั้งใจ, หมายถึงThai
- cimri, yolTurkish
- nghĩa làVietnamese
- 意味著Chinese
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[ mˈiːn], [ mˈiːn], [ m_ˈiː_n]
How to use «Mean» in context?
Most people would say that being mean is not a good thing. After all, it is essentially being nasty, unfair, and unkind. Some people might use this word to describe someone who is being overly critical or who is pulling rank, but for the most part, Mean is bad. As much as we might want to be mean to people we don’t like, it is actually not a very effective way to go about things. In fact, it can actually backfire and make the person you are mean to even more hostile. Sadly, for some people, meanness is a way of life.
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mean [miːn] гл meant, meant
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означать, значить, обозначать
(indicate, be)
- also mean – также означать
- mean so – значить так
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иметь в виду
(keep in mind)
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подразумевать, предполагать
(imply, assume)
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намереваться, хотеть
(intend, want)
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говорить
(say)
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понимать, разуметь
(understand)
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хотите сказать
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иметься в виду
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mean [miːn] сущ
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средствоср
(means)
- mean of transportation – средство передвижения
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серединаж
(middle)
- golden mean – золотая середина
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способм, методм
(method)
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смыслм, значениеср
(sense, meaning)
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счетам
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среднее значение
(average)
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mean [miːn] прил
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захудалый
(shabby)
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подлый
(vile)
- mean act – подлый поступок
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средняя
(average)
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| noun | ||
| среднее | mean | |
| среднее значение | mean | |
| средство | means, agent, way, remedy, medium, mean | |
| середина | middle, mean, center, medium, midst, inside | |
| средняя величина | average, mean | |
| среднее число | average, mean | |
| среднее арифметическое | arithmetical mean, mean | |
| adjective | ||
| средний | average, secondary, medium, middle, mean, mid | |
| скупой | stingy, mean, miserly, niggardly, miser, covetous | |
| подлый | vile, sneaky, despicable, dastardly, mean, sneaking | |
| захудалый | run-down, shabby, scrubby, mean, crummy, scrub | |
| плохой | bad, poor, ill, low, inferior, mean | |
| низкий | low, lower, poor, deep, short, mean | |
| скромный | modest, humble, frugal, small, unassuming, mean | |
| жалкий | pitiful, miserable, pathetic, sorry, wretched, mean | |
| убогий | poor, miserable, needy, squalid, shabby, mean | |
| недоброжелательный | malevolent, spiteful, unkindly, negative, mean, ill-disposed | |
| слабый | weak, weakly, low, feeble, faint, mean | |
| придирчивый | picky, captious, nagging, cantankerous, fault-finding, mean | |
| бедный | poor, lean, penniless, meager, humble, mean | |
| скаредный | stingy, miserly, niggardly, mean, tight-fisted, penny-pinching | |
| серединный | mid, median, medial, mean | |
| посредственный | mediocre, middling, ordinary, indifferent, moderate, mean | |
| низкого происхождения | low, lowborn, lower, ignoble, mean, baseborn | |
| нечестный | dishonest, unfair, foul, crooked, dirty, mean | |
| смущающийся | mean | |
| трудный | difficult, hard, tough, tight, arduous, mean | |
| неподдающийся | mean | |
| verb | ||
| означать | mean, indicate, denote, imply, signify, represent | |
| значить | mean, signify, imply, import, denote, intend | |
| подразумевать | mean, imply, involve, understand, infer, purport | |
| намереваться | mean, intend, plan, design, set out, purpose | |
| иметь в виду | keep in mind, bear in mind, have in view, have in mind, mean, mind | |
| подразумеваться | mean | |
| думать | think, believe, expect, suppose, imagine, mean | |
| иметь значение | matter, mean, signify, count, evaluate, weigh | |
| предвещать | herald, portend, presage, foreshadow, forebode, mean | |
| предназначаться | mean | |
| предназначать | intend, design, dedicate, destine, assign, mean |
Синонимы (v1)
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mean гл
- average · median · middle · medium · moderate · secondary · intermediate · midpoint
- imply · indicate · signify · suggest · betoken
- think · tell · denote · stand for · be · represent · stand · bear in mind
- intend · want · set out
- entail · involve
- spell
- vile · despicable · beggarly
- stingy · miserly
adjective
- unkind, nasty, unpleasant, spiteful, malicious, unfair, cruel, shabby, foul, despicable, contemptible, obnoxious, vile, odious, loathsome, base, low, horrible, horrid, hateful, rotten, lowdown, beastly
- miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, parsimonious, penny-pinching, cheeseparing, Scroogelike, tightfisted, stingy, tight, mingy, money-grubbing, cheap, penurious
- inferior, poor, limited, restricted
- lowly, humble, ordinary, low, low-born, modest, common, base, proletarian, plebeian, obscure, ignoble, undistinguished, baseborn
- average, median, middle, medial, medium, normal, standard
- meanspirited, base
- bastardly
- beggarly
- hateful
- mingy, tight, miserly
- average
noun
- middle course, middle way, midpoint, happy medium, golden mean, compromise, balance, median, norm, average
- mean value
verb
- signify, convey, denote, designate, indicate, connote, show, express, spell out, stand for, represent, symbolize, imply, suggest, intimate, hint at, insinuate, drive at, refer to, allude to, point to, betoken
- intend, aim, plan, design, have in mind, contemplate, purpose, propose, set out, aspire, desire, want, wish, expect
- intend, design, destine, predestine
- entail, involve, necessitate, lead to, result in, give rise to, bring about, cause, engender, produce
- matter, be important, be significant
- presage, portend, foretell, augur, promise, foreshadow, herald, signal, bode, betoken
- intend
- intend, stand for, signify
- think of, have in mind
- imply, entail
- think, intend
Предложения со словом «mean»
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This very same word can also mean slave and dancers were in fact known as knhom preah robam, or slaves of the sacred dance. |
Это слово также означает «раб», и танцоры были известны как «knhom preah robam», или «рабы сакрального танца». |
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Now, what does all this mean for you and me? |
И что же это значит для нас с вами? |
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I will tell you what I mean by these odd experiences. |
Я объясню вам, что я имею в виду, когда говорю, что это было странно. |
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I mean, cities have always been regarded as being more energy-efficient, but let me tell you, repopulating the countryside can be eco too. |
Жизнь в городах всегда считали более энергоэффективной, но послушайте, заселение деревни тоже может быть экологически чистым. |
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We probably read more than half of the prior animal genomes in the world, I mean, up to date. |
Мы прочли более половины геномов предков современных животных, я имею в виду на сегодня. |
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I mean, the work is amazing. |
Конечно, ваша работа достойна восхищения. |
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I mean learning institutions, places where young people, young minds are being shaped. |
Не возле образовательных учреждений, где молодёжь, молодые умы, проходят огранку. |
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I mean, while the debt crisis happened, the stock market and the economy went up rather than going down, and I lost so much money for myself and for my clients that I had to shut down my operation pretty much, I had to let almost everybody go. |
Когда произошёл долговой кризис, фондовый рынок и экономика в целом скорее укрепились, а не просели, я потерял так много денег, и свои, и деньги клиентов, что пришлось существенно свернуть свой бизнес и распустить почти всех сотрудников. |
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What I mean by radical truthfulness and radical transparency is people needed to say what they really believed and to see everything. |
Под предельной открытостью и прозрачностью я подразумеваю, что люди должны озвучивать свои истинные взгляды и видеть всё. |
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A week after the US election, our research team held a meeting to discuss what a Trump presidency would mean for the US economy. |
Через неделю после выборов в США наша исследовательская группа провела встречу, чтобы обсудить последствия президенства Трампа для экономики США. |
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And what would that job mean to them in their lives? |
И что бы значила эта работа для них? |
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And if you wondered if they really mean it — it takes us about an hour to fill this van up in the morning, because almost everybody we ask takes a job for the day. |
И если вам интересно, действительно ли они хотят работать нам необходим всего час, чтоб заполнить наш фургон с утра, потому что почти каждый, кому мы предлагаем работу на день, соглашается. |
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I mean, the day remained bright. |
То есть день оставался светлым. |
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I mean, why focus so much attention on something so brief? |
Зачем так фокусироваться на чëм — то столь кратковременном? |
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Why should aging well mean struggling to look and move like younger versions of ourselves? |
Почему старение превратилось в судорожные попытки лучше выглядеть и вести себя как в молодости? |
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Now, many people hear these kinds of evolutionary claims and think they mean that we somehow are unconsciously seeking mates who are healthy. |
Многие люди, услышав подобные утверждения об эволюции, приходят к выводу, что мы неосознанно выбираем партнёров по признаку здоровья. |
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Those simple capabilities mean that people can go almost anywhere on earth, on any kind of terrain. |
Такие простые способности позволяют человеку находиться где — угодно, на любой местности. |
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Even with the therapies we have currently, this could mean that millions of lives could be saved. |
Даже применяя существующие методы лечения, это поможет нам спасти миллионы жизней. |
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For some, integrating thick data insights into the algorithm could mean life or death, especially for the marginalized. |
Для некоторых привлечение плотных данных в алгоритм — это дело жизни и смерти, особенно для тех, чьё положение шатко. |
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I mean, even I could put up with a few more cloudy days if clouds saved the planet. |
Даже я потерплю ещё несколько пасмурных дней, если облака спасут нашу планету. |
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I mean, think about it: a computer simulation that’s able to exactly reproduce all of reality. |
Только подумайте: компьютерная модель, которая может в точности воспроизвести реальное положение дел. |
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It doesn’t mean everyone goes in and eats dog food, but businesspeople will use their own products to demonstrate that they feel — that they’re confident in them. |
Это вовсе не значит, что все едят корм для собак, это значит, что сотрудники компании пользуются собственной продукцией, чтобы показать, что они стопроцентно уверены в ней. |
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And when I say warm, I mean pretty warm, that there were things like crocodiles and palm trees as far north as Canada and as far south as Patagonia. |
И говоря о тепле, я имею в виду жару, а это значит, что крокодилы и пальмы были распространены от Канады на Севере и до Патагонии на Юге. |
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I mean — quite literally, the doorstop. |
Да, её использовали как дверную пружину. |
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This is a wonderful and necessary innovation, but in the design world, when we describe a new project or idea as accessible, what does that mean? |
Это замечательная и нужная инновация, но когда в мире дизайна мы описываем новый проект или идею как доступные, что это значит? |
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What do you mean, go home? |
Что значит домой? |
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What they mean is what we stand for is more important than the bombs we drop. |
Это значит, что наши убеждения куда важнее бомб, что мы сбрасываем. |
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I mean, a recurring theme of the conference this week has been about the democratization of power. |
Зачастую темы выступлений этой недели касались демократизации власти. |
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For a recent project called Drone Aviary, we were interested in exploring what it would mean to live with drones in our cities. |
Недавно мы участвовали в проекте Drone Aviary, целью которого было изучение жизни в городе вместе с дронами. |
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I mean, like I said: I’m not thinking about where I’m moving my arms at that stage. |
Я имею в виду, что я не задумываюсь над тем, какие движения совершать руками. |
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I mean, my realm is sort of faith and writing and kind of lurching along together. |
Я имею в виду, моя область — это вера, и творчество, и что — то вроде совместного прорыва. |
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But just because a facade is superficial doesn’t mean it’s not also deep. |
Но то, что фасад находится снаружи, не лишает его глубины. |
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I mean, sure, in summertime kids are running back and forth through the fountain and there’s ice-skating in the winter, but it lacks the informality of a leisurely hangout. |
Конечно, в летнее время дети бегают взад и вперёд по фонтану, а зимой здесь заливают каток, но не хватает уюта неторопливых прогулок. |
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Eventually, every profession will have to feel these pressures or else it will mean humanity has ceased to make progress. |
В конце концов любой профессионал должен испытать на себе это давление, иначе человечество перестанет развиваться. |
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I mean this is within our children’s lifetime. |
Наши дети станут этому свидетелями. |
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I mean who here likes shellfish? |
Здесь есть любители устриц? |
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I mean, these psychologists didn’t need any complicated brain scans; they only had to measure the farmer’s IQ, and IQ tests were invented more than 100 years ago. |
Психологам не нужны были результаты сканирования мозга; они должны были только узнать коэффициент интеллекта фермеров, а сами тесты были разработаны более ста лет назад. |
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You mean you want to just hand out more money to the poor to eradicate poverty. |
Вы хотите сказать, нужно дать бедным больше денег, чтобы искоренить нищету. |
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Because, I mean, the great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things that self-appointed experts think they need. |
Потому что самое замечательное в деньгах то, что люди могут потратить их на нужные для себя вещи, а не на то, что им требуется по мнению самоназначенных экспертов. |
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She cooked a mean peach cobbler, had 11 children, a house full of grandchildren. |
Готовила неповторимый персиковый кобблер, у нее было 11 детей и полный дом внуков. |
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I mean, who wouldn’t enjoy a little more pleasantness from our teens, and a little less crankiness? |
Кому не понравится, что их подросток будет помягче и не таким раздражительным? |
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Watching him reshape his identity during his illness, learning to witness and accept his pain, talking together through his choices — those experiences taught me that resilience does not mean bouncing back to where you were before, or pretending that the hard stuff isn’t hard. |
Наблюдать за тем, как менялась его личность в течение болезни, учиться быть свидетелем его боли и принимать её, вместе обсуждать его выбор — всё это научило меня тому, что быть стойким — не значит вернуться туда, где был раньше, или делать вид, что что — то трудное на самом деле легко. |
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When Paul said, It’s going to be OK, that didn’t mean that we could cure his illness. |
Когда Пол говорил: Всё будет хорошо, это не означало, что мы сможем вылечить его. |
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I just mean whatever it is that the human would prefer their life to be like. |
Я подразумеваю не сентиментальные ценности, а любые представления людей об идеальной жизни. |
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Just because you behave badly doesn’t mean the robot is going to copy your behavior. |
Робот не будет копировать ваше плохое поведение. |
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It can understand that; it doesn’t mean it’s going to steal. |
Он может это понять, и это не значит, что он будет воровать. |
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That doesn’t mean he wanted to lose. |
Это не значит, что он хотел проиграть. |
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I mean, why would you write back the name of a sneaker to me? |
В смысле, зачем ты написал мне название марки кроссовок? |
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What do I mean by soundscape? |
Что я имею в виду под звуковым пространством? |
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And by land , I mean people. |
Говоря о земле, я подразумеваю людей. |
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It made me wonder: What does it mean when we say the milonga is Uruguayan? |
Это заставило меня задуматься: Что значит, когда мы говорим, что милонга — из Уругвая? |
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So this really doesn’t mean doing crossword puzzles. |
То есть это не разгадывание кроссвордов. |
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Diagnosis doesn’t mean you’re dying tomorrow. |
Такой диагноз не означает, что ваша жизнь кончилась. |
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What do you mean? |
Что ты имеешь в виду? |
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I mean — There’s pictures of her pushing me, really low-quality pictures or else I would have shared them, of her pushing me in a stroller on a tennis court, and she always took care of me. |
Я имею в виду, Есть фотографии, на которых она меня везёт — они плохого качества, иначе я бы уже поделилась ими — на них видно, как она везёт меня на тележке по корту, она всегда заботилась обо мне. |
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Your body brings men and women to their knees and I mean in a good way. |
Оно заставляет и мужчин, и женщин преклоняться перед ним, в хорошем смысле. |
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Feeling hopeful does not mean to be optimistically naïve and ignore the tragedy humanity is facing. |
Но испытывать надежду не означает быть наивными оптимистами, которые закрывают глаза на трагедию и зло человечества. |
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I mean, how was I supposed to do that? |
Как бы я стал одним из них? |
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I mean, how was I supposed to do it? |
Вопрос был: как я собираюсь ими торговать? |
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You mean to tell me that people worked their whole lives, buying cars, clothes, homes and material stuff but were living check to check? |
То есть вы хотите сказать, что люди работают всю жизнь, покупают машины, одежду, недвижимость и так далее и тем не менее живут от зарплаты до зарплаты? |