meanin a sentence
mean as in: the mean score
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We have a mean annual rainfall of 23 inches.
mean = average
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Mean income is distorted by a small number of people with very high income. I suggest looking at median income instead.
mean = an average of n numbers computed by dividing the sum of the numbers by n
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That is the mean; that is the average.
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mean = average
- The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. (source)
- The log indicated a mean speed of between eight and nine miles. (source)
- The mean breadth of this territory does not exceed one hundred miles; but it is about nine hundred miles in length. (source)
- It has been calculated that the whites advance every year a mean distance of seventeen miles along the whole of his vast boundary. (source)
- This would be a population proportionate to that of Europe, taken at a mean rate of 410 inhabitants to the square league. (source)
- One hundred millions of men disseminated over the surface of the twenty-four States, and the three dependencies, which constitute the Union, would only give 762 inhabitants to the square league; this would be far below the mean population of France, which is 1,063 to the square league; or of England, which is 1,457; (source)
- The mean distance from the Atlantic to the Mississippi does not probably exceed seven hundred and fifty miles. (source)
- Computing the distance between the thirty-first and forty-fifth degrees, it amounts to nine hundred and seventy-three common miles; computing it from thirty-one to forty-two degrees, to seven hundred and sixty-four miles and a half. Taking the mean for the distance, the amount will be eight hundred and sixty-eight miles and three-fourths. (source)
meaning too common or rare to warrant focus:
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I'm teaching her how to read because people in this town are so mean to her she couldn't even go to school.
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mean = common meaning
- Roy didn't want to get Dana Matherson thrown in jail, because then Dana's mean and equally large friends might come after him. (source)
- "You mean to tell me," his father said, "that the Museum of Natural History has a skeleton that's wrong?† (source)
- I mean she was naive and unassuming, a grown-up and a child at the same time, plus she was a touch crazy.† (source)
- Now our plan to take over the world is — er, I mean, our plan to feed the children healthy, nutritional meals is underway!† (source)
- "I am at a loss to understand what you mean, my lord," I said, quite sincerely but with growing alarm.† (source)
- I mean, he had work stuff on there, but nothing that would have caused the collapse of Western civilization as we know it if the bad guys got hold of it.† (source)
- I mean, anytime he finds out a black person is with a white person, suddenly something's wrong with them.† (source)
- I thought of positive liberty, and of what it might mean to self-coerce, until my head thrummed with a dull ache.† (source)
- When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.† (source)
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- They both knew that bad luck could mean nothing more than dropping a pan of water or breaking an egg.† (source)
- I see the flow of liquids, pumping through the tubes, watch a wall of dials and lights that mean nothing to me.† (source)
- In fact, and I don't mean to brag here, but it kind of felt like everyone wanted to get close to me.† (source)
- We normally don't have monsoons in Swat and at first we were happy, thinking the rain would mean a good harvest.† (source)
- You mean the mayor ...you mean the mayor is ... At that moment, a little way down the hall, a door opened.† (source)
- To this day, I find it hard to gaze directly at people like Hassan, people who mean every word they say.† (source)
- I mean, no offense to Ivan, but they're just blobs.† (source)
- When I first found out I was sick—I mean, they told me I had like an eighty-five percent chance of cure.† (source)
- Surveying the skies, I didn't see any sign of the Sixers, but that didn't mean they hadn't already arrived.† (source)
- He threw it into the basin and continued, "I mean, the rest of us know it doesn't make any difference at all.† (source)
- Besides, just because he found a lipstick container with K B on it, that didn't mean there was treasure buried there.† (source)
- Eventually it's going to want to be fed—and I don't exactly have the materials, if you know what I mean.† (source)
- When Mom told me I was so focused it was scary, I know she didn't mean it as a compliment, but I took it that way.† (source)
- I mean, at the pipeline camp where we worked, Pump Station 7, there were probably forty guys for every woman.† (source)
- A few miles of difference in latitude could mean a 180-degree difference in current direction, and no one knew where the plane had hit.† (source)
- "Well," Jonas went on, uncomfortably aware that he might be interrupting again, "I am really interested, I don't mean that I'm not.† (source)
- I didn't mean anything by it, but that was one of the last memories she had of me, and I wished I could take it back.† (source)
- No, that's not what I mean.† (source)
- Here, put your hands on the controls, your feet on the rudder pedals, and I'll show you what I mean.† (source)
- What do you mean his corpse is rotting on an Oriental rug, some kind of Persian rug, maybe a Chinese rug.† (source)
- I mean, there they are, already fertile, with housing and industry in place, and all the buggers dead.† (source)
- "Well, that don't mean nothin'," said T.J., jerking away from Stacey's grip and hopping to his feet.† (source)
- If this feller dies, you'll get the gallows, that's what you'll get, if that's what you mean by make out.† (source)
- Two-Bit couldn't deny this, so I went on: "I mean, I got an awful feeling something's gonna happen."† (source)
- He will tell them how to get into the city of Sakiel-Norn without any siege or loss of life, I mean their lives.† (source)
- "I just mean, if you don't feel up to it I could see if we could arrange an interpreter," Glen said.† (source)
- "I know what you mean," she might reply.† (source)
- I mean, yes, sure, I did have a crush on you at one point, before you and Margot ever started dating.† (source)
- Does that mean we get the whole chicken?† (source)
- Does this mean that you've also developed religious feelings for Trisolaris like the Redemptionists?† (source)
- I mean, he's sick, but he'll be okay," I answered, accepting the cup of tea, wrapping my hands around it.† (source)
- Just because you witnessed the Comet of 1812, does not mean that Sofia must wear a petticoat and bustle.† (source)
- I don't mean to suggest that my professor picked up the phone and told the judge he had to give me an interview.† (source)
- We—I mean my fellow officers and I—are in need of some entertainment, and as the weather is improving, we were thinking of a game of soccer.† (source)
- I didn't mean any harm, Jew.† (source)
- She said that half of it went over her head, and the other half she got, but didn't like, because it was so mean.† (source)
- When you came, I was hoping ...I mean— Athena can get along with just about anybody, except for Ares.† (source)
- His disappearance could mean only one thing.† (source)
- But if the situation or the context where you make the decisions don't change, then second chances don't mean too much, huh?† (source)
- I don't mean to fall asleep, but after a while, I do, and I wake up to Christina shaking my shoulder.† (source)
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