Definition of "mean" in İngilizce

verb

To intend.
To convey (a meaning).
(transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
- Does she really mean what she said to him last night?
- Say what you mean and mean what you say.
(transitive) To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
- One faltering step means certain death.
- This breakthrough will mean that we spend less on electricity bills.
(usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
- That little dog meant everything to me.
- Formality and titles mean nothing in their circle.
(Ireland, UK regional) To lament.
- They were forced to mean our estate to the Queen of England.

adjective

(obsolete) Common; general.
(now rare) Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
- a man of mean parentage
- a mean abode
Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
- a mean appearance
- a mean dress
Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
- a mean motive
- It was mean of you to steal that little girl's piggy bank.
Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
(chiefly UK) Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
- He's so mean. I've never seen him spend so much as five pounds on presents for his children.
Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
- Watch out for her: she's mean. I said good morning to her, and she punched me in the nose.
Powerful; fierce; strong.
- It must have been a mean typhoon that levelled this town.
(colloquial) Hearty; spicy.
(colloquial) Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
- Your mother can roll a mean cigarette.
- He hits a mean backhand.
(informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
- This problem is mean!

noun

(now chiefly in the plural form means, also in a singular sense) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
(obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
- Verily in this treatise this hath been mine only purpose; and the mean to bring the same to effect hath been such as whereby I studied to profit wholesomely, not to please delicately.
- 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.
Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
- 1875, William Smith and Samuel Cheetham, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Little, Brown and Company, volume 1, page 10, s.v. Accentus Ecclesiasticus, It presents a sort of mean between speech and song, continually inclining towards the latter, never altogether leaving its hold on the former; it is speech, though always attuned speech, in passages of average interest and importance; it is song, though always distinct and articulate song, in passages demanding more fervid utterance.
(music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
(mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
- Note that (1.41) is simply the probability-weighted mean without any explicit allowance for the stratification; each observation is weighted by its inflation factor and the total divided by the total of the inflation factors for the survey.
(mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.