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R MEAN
average: 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' mean or intend to express or convey; 'You never understand what I mean!'; 'what do his words intend?' hateful: characterized by malice; 'a hateful thing to do'; 'in a mean mood' base: 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' entail: have as a logical consequence; 'The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers' excellent; 'famous for a mean backhand' denote or connote; '`maison' means `house' in French'; 'An example sentence would show what this word means' intend: 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' beggarly: marked by poverty befitting a beggar; 'a beggarly existence in the slums'; 'a mean hut' (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; 'a mean person'; 'he left a miserly tip' have a specified degree of importance; 'My ex-husband means nothing to me'; 'Happiness means everything' think of: 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!' beggarly: (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt destine or designate for a certain purpose; 'These flowers were meant for you' an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n bastardly: of no value or worth; 'I was caught in the bastardly traffic'
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