(v. t.) To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
(v. t.) To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.
(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention.
(superl.) Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble.
(superl.) Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.
(superl.) Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
(superl.) Of poor quality; as, mean fare.
(superl.) Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.
(a.) Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.
(a.) Intermediate in excellence of any kind.
(a.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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 square root of the product of the quantities.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.
(n.) Meantime; meanwhile.
(n.) A mediator; a go-between.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(5) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
(6) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(7) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
(8) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(9) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(10) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(11) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
(12) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(13) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(14) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(15) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(16) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(17) The mean and median values in the nondiabetic group are higher than in previously published reports.
(18) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(19) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(20) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
Stint
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
(n.) A phalarope.
(v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
(v. t.) To put an end to; to stop.
(v. t.) To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
(v. t.) To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
(v. i.) To stop; to cease.
(v. t.) Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
(v. t.) Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
Example Sentences:
(1) We already have a hard enough time trusting our technology and understanding what it’s doing,” says Soltani, who worked on regulation for the Federal Trade Commission with a brief stint at the White House.
(2) Today, after stints in the shadows of Whitehall and the private sector, Tim Matthews is back in the limelight as the new chief executive of Remploy, the quango that has been in the eye of a storm over closure of many of its factories providing jobs for people with disabilities.
(3) Cartilage segment alignment with focal, complete fracture healing and symmetrical chondrocyte proliferation were seen in fibrogen adhesive-stinted larynges.
(4) During his stints in the Bush and Obama administration Comey has continually taken authoritarian and factually dubious public stances both at odds with responsible public policy and sometimes the law.
(5) With a high level of English gleaned from an Erasmus stint in Oxford, she was eager to move to London.
(6) Tony Abbott’s chief of staff, Peta Credlin, was informed of Stuart Robert’s plans to travel directly from a controversial stint in China to an official commitment in Singapore, a committee has been told.
(7) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
(8) During his long stint in the witness stand, Harris was questioned at length about why he expressed abject remorse to the father for his actions, offering a little more credible explanation than he felt ending the relationship had upset the woman.
(9) 2010: Sir Terry Leahy, by now regarded as one of Britain’s most successful businessmen, announces plans to retire after a 14-year stint as chief executive saying he felt he had achieved his aim to “develop a purpose and values that could sustain Tesco through its challenges.” 2011: Phil Clarke becomes chief executive in March just before announcing record profits of £3.8bn .
(10) Even in the past few months, KC Grad has gained new neighbours, including the Ben Akiba comedy club – which relocated to Savamala after a stint in the city centre – as well as the Berliner beer hall.
(11) Rock has faced calls to walk away from his second stint as host in protest at the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ failure to nominate a single actor from black or ethnic minority backgrounds for the second year running.
(12) His stint in space marks a shift in the astronaut breed, away from the robotic iciness of Nasa's early crews to the more modern species that openly revels in the wonder of falling round the Earth.
(13) He attended the Sorbonne and went into journalism via reporting during Indira Gandhi's Indian emergency, followed by stints on the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, later the Economist.
(14) The club’s former academy head had been widely tipped to replace previous incumbent Darko Milanic, who was in charge for just 32 days, and this permanent appointment follows three separate stints as caretaker manager at Elland Road for the former Barnsley player.
(15) And then, in 1937, she married Sydney Oswald Spark, otherwise known as "SOS", an older man and, apparently, "a borderline case", about to embark on a three-year stint as a schoolteacher in Rhodesia.
(16) He has taken on stints as a stable hand, been a door-to-door salesman and set up stages for local concerts: rarely does David Pena turn down a job.
(17) Cellino raised eyebrows this summer when he appointed Hockaday, whose previous managerial experience was limited to an unimpressive stint at non-league Forest Green Rovers.
(18) A guest stint for anyone can only harm you and coming back without any sort of plan and substance is always a recipe for disaster.
(19) Totally, unbelievably untrue, but it does create doubt and they just drive right through that.” The appearance, her fourth on the late-night talk show circuit after stints on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, also had lighter moments.
(20) If Hiddink takes the job it will be the second interim stint from the Dutchman after he took charge for three and a half months at the end of the 2008-09 season when Luiz Felipe Scolari was sacked, and he went on to win the FA Cup.